The number of patients prescribed hormonal therapy plummeted after 2002, due to findings experts have since questioned. With better understanding, more and more people are using these treatments.
Targeted marketing may play a role in increasing alcohol consumption among women.
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Monica Swahn, Kennesaw State University and Ritu Aneja, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Drinking alcohol is normalized in American society. But the ubiquity of alcohol consumption hides its serious health risks, including cancer.
The United States Preventive Services Task Force, the Canadian Cancer Society and several Canadian provinces now endorse breast cancer screening for women ages 40-49, but the new guidelines from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care do not.
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Anna N. Wilkinson, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jean Seely, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Moira Rushton, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Suleena Duhaime, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Early detection is crucial in the fight against breast cancer. Yet the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care’s new guidelines do not endorse breast cancer screening for women in their 40s.
People who menstruate in rural and remote Indigenous communities face a unique set of challenges, and have a particular need for better access to period products.
Before menopause, women’s hearts tend to be protected by their circulating hormones. In midlife, they may well get a shock when a doctor outlines their health risks.
The federal government has announced almost $50 million in funding for gynaecological health care. But there’s more to do to help women with chronic pain.
Women who receive obstetric and gynecological care must be heard when they say that they have received inadequate, violent treatment.
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Obstetric and gynecological violence is care that is violent, disrespectful, abusive or neglectful. At its heart is the absence of consent, or consent without having received appropriate information.
Can eating lots of pineapple change the smell and taste of the vulva and vagina? An expert examines the latest fruity vaginal health hack.
Social media users aren’t used to seeing this – men’s nipples and even pubic hair aren’t censored but posts about women’s bodies are assumed to be pornographic.
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I’m a scholar, not an activist or an advocate. But now one of the most intimate, personal events of our lives had been turned into a political event by the state’s highest court.
Women spinning and socialising. From Augustine’s La Cité de Dieu.
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Education needs to address the big gaps in the knowledge around the menstrual cycles and the impact menstruation has on a wide range of health outcomes.