News and Features Related to Women's Health

More Hope In A Jar? The Anti-Aging Skin Care Promise

From magazines and newspapers to web pages and online blogs, it is hard to miss the promises being made for products designed for beauty and skin care. And the most tantalizing promises of all? Those that touch not just our vanity, but also our fears of growing old. It’s an approach that seems to be
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Living With Amputation: Gracie Rosenberger's Story

In 1983, I fell asleep while driving and slammed into a concrete abutment. The only memory I have of the wreck was seeing both of my legs pushed over my right shoulder. The damage was catastrophic: My ankles were pulverized, every bone from the waist down was broken (one surgeon counted nearly 200 f
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Mammograms Cut Risk of Breast Cancer Death

Oct. 6, 2009 -- Three-fourths of deaths due to breast cancer occur among women who do not undergo regular screening mammograms, a large study shows. Researchers studied 6,997 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer in Massachusetts between 1990 and 1999. Surveys indicated that 80% had regular ma
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IUD Mirena OK'd to Treat Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Oct. 1, 2009 -- The FDA today approved the intrauterine device Mirena to treat heavy menstrual bleeding in women who use intrauterine contraception as their main form of pregnancy prevention. Mirena is the first intrauterine device (IUD) approved by the FDA for this additional use. The FDA approved
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Susie Essman's New Book Takes on Anger, Menopause, and More

On hiatus from playing ever-furious, always-funny Susie Greene on the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, comic Susie Essman was visiting her mother one weekend when the phone rang. It was series creator and star Larry David. "Listen, I have a sinus infection," he said without preamble. "What sh
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Women's Weight Tied to Healthy Aging

Sept. 29, 2009 -- For women, the odds of being healthy at age 70 are best for those who don't gain a lot of weight between ages 18 and 50 and who aren't obese at 50. That news appears in the "Online First" edition of BMJ. But millions of middle-aged women are overweight and obese, and they can't go
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Women Over 35 Embrace Healthy Sexuality

Sept. 23, 2009 -- Thank Carrie Bradshaw and her friends on Sex and the City or the women from Wisteria Lane on Desperate Housewives, because when it comes to sex, women over 35 seem to be having all the fun. A new online survey of 500 women aged 35 to 49 showed that 76% of women are interested in ma
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Vaccine Aims to Block Bladder Infections

Sept. 17, 2009 -- For millions of women and some men, bladder infections are a painful part of life. More than half of women will have at least one urinary tract infection in their lifetime and many will have recurrent infections. Men get them too, but much less often than women and usually as a res
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Best Lighting for Your Home

Like most people, you probably don't give much thought to interior lighting. As long as the light comes on each time you flip the switch, you're satisfied. But why settle for satisfactory lighting when you can have home lighting that makes just about every household activity easier, more pleasant, a
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Protecting Your Home From Break-Ins

One of the easiest crimes to prevent -- burglary -- is also one of the most common. Somewhere in the U.S. there's a burglary committed every 15 seconds. If it happens at your home, you lose more than a few possessions. A break-in, even when you're not there, has a major impact on your and your famil
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