Here's how to make the most of your visits and your relationship with your OB/GYN: Make an appointment once a year for an annual checkup. While cancer screenings like Paps and mammograms are important, so is an annual pelvic exam to detect fibroids or cysts. It’s also important to monitor [...]
By Rekha Gohel, MD While urinary tract infections are common in women, they may be misdiagnosed as a neurological disorder in seniors. Left untreated, the infection can result in permanent kidney damage. Learning how to recognize the symptoms of infection in women, seniors and even men can ensure proper [...]
By James Ware, MD The agony of a migraine headache is debilitating on its own, but can it also be the sign of something more dangerous? Recent studies have found that the risk of heart disease and stroke are increased in women who suffer from migraines. While the [...]
By Wendy Reizer Pondering procrastination I don’t know why it took me so long to get my first mammogram. I keep trying to figure out why I procrastinated for more than 10 years past the recommended baseline screening age. I don’t think it was fear. And it certainly wasn’t [...]
Hysterectomy is the second most common surgery for reproductive-aged women, behind only Cesarean section during childbirth. By age 60, more than one-third of all women have had a hysterectomy, according to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. While the decision of whether to have a hysterectomy is never [...]
By Amit Kharod, MD Even with remarkable advances in breast cancer prevention, detection and treatment, the disease still affects one in eight American women. But due to earlier detection, there are more than two million survivors today and breast cancer diagnoses continue to decrease. It is difficult [...]
Puberty is a good time to introduce breast health awareness Breast development is one of the many changes that occur during puberty, and an ideal time to introduce young women to breast self-examinations. The goal of these self-examinations in adolescents should never be to identify problems. Instead, the focus [...]
Fibroid tumors of the uterus are a common problem facing many women over the course of their lives. By age 50, about 70 percent of women will have these non-cancerous tumors that grow along the wall of the uterus, although many of them cause no physical symptoms. But for [...]
