PHILADELPHIA – "My personal opinion is that polycystic ovary syndrome is probably multiple diseases."
That’s according to Dr. Selma Witchel, an associate professor of pediatric...
WASHINGTON – A just-released survey conducted last fall shows that low-income women with private insurance or Medicaid were often foregoing preventive care and use of contraceptives, in part due to...
A structured physical activity program reduced the rate of major mobility disability among sedentary men and women aged 70-89 years who were at high risk for the condition, in a randomized clinical...
LAS VEGAS – Dr. Joshua D. Safer is a man on a mission. He wants to incorporate transgender medicine into medical school curricula across North America to help increase the number of specialists who...
Women with diabetes have a 44% greater chance of developing coronary heart disease than do men with diabetes, a large review and meta-analysis has shown.
In a retrospective review of data...
Fear seems to be a major driver of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy after initial breast cancer surgery.
Almost two-thirds of those who had the procedure had no clinical indication for it,...
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – Hydroxychloroquine was not associated with any adverse long-term complications in the children of women with systemic lupus erythematosus who used the drug during pregnancy or...
ALBUQUERQUE – Postmenopausal women who reported a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer were almost 16% more likely to sustain a lower arm fracture than were women without a skin cancer history,...
ALBUQUERQUE – Postmenopausal women who had a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer and regularly used nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs had an 18% lower risk of developing subsequent skin cancers,...
