TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Screening for cancer saves lives, but a new report shows it comes with a hefty price tag: The United States spends at least $43 billion annually on tests that check for five major cancers. Published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the newContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Too many women don’t know a key warning sign of endometrial cancer, the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs, a new study shows. More than one-third (37%) of women surveyed did not know that postmenopausal bleeding is a key symptom ofContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who experience early menopause appear to be at greater risk of breast cancer, a new study reports. Women who underwent menopause at an age younger than 46 were nearly twice as likely to have breast cancer compared to others their age, researchersContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women are often being sold a fertility test that paints a misleading picture of their ability to conceive a child, a new study warns. The anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) test uses a blood sample to estimate the number of eggs available in the ovariesContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who struggle with endometriosis may be vulnerable to another health danger: New research shows they are about four times more likely to develop ovarian cancer than women who don’t have the painful condition. The odds are even worse for women with severeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, even more women have struggled to find reproductive care, a new report warns. Issued Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, the report shows that women living in states long plagued by healthContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women with uterine fibroids are often told hysterectomy is the best treatment, even though less invasive options are available, a new study finds. More than half (53%) of women with uterine fibroids — non-cancerous growths along the wall of the uterus — wereContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers report they have discovered lead and arsenic in a wide variety of tampon products sold in the United States and Europe. Testing revealed lead in all 30 tampons from 14 brands obtained from major online retailers and stores in the U.S., theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A 30-minute sauna or warm bubble bath every day might help women of a certain age fend off unwanted weight gain. That’s the promising takeaway from a study in mice that shows the potential of heat treatments in postmenopausal women. Researchers found thatContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ultrasound cannot reliably rule out endometrial cancer in Black women given how readings are now assessed, a new study argues. Transvaginal ultrasound is commonly used to screen for cancer by measuring the thickness of the endometrium, the inner wall of the uterus. ThisContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Acupuncture can help breast cancer patients deal with the hot flashes that often accompany hormone therapy, a new clinical trial says. Nearly 2 in 3 women who got acupuncture during hormone therapy reported fewer and less intense hot flashes, results show. Hormone therapyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Post-Dobbs bans and restrictions on abortion are having a spillover effect in reducing the use of birth control and emergency contraception in those states most affected, a new study shows. Why the troubling trend? The study’s author believes the demise of Roe v.Continue Reading
SUNDAY, June 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When a couple can’t get pregnant, the focus is often on the prospective mom, but that needs to change, a Houston urologist says. “Both partners need evaluation,” said Dr. Larry Lipschultz, a professor of urology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “WithContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Men looking to limit their odds for fatherhood probably have questions about vasectomy. They should steer clear of TikTok for answers, however. A new study examining the quality of the top 100 most liked videos on TikTok found that, in terms of medicalContinue Reading