Women's Health Features
- The Mind of a Man
Can't get your man to listen to you? Don't blame the TV or his upbringing -- his brain is wired that way.
- Life With an Autoimmune Disease
If you have general, lingering symptoms, you may be suffering from an autoimmune disease -- which means your immune system is attacking healthy tissue.
- Dating Dangers: Love's a Minefield
Dating advice from the experts about how to find Mr. or Ms. Right.
- Shoes: New Airport Health Hazard
Taking your shoes off at airport security checkpoints exposes your feet to fungus and injury.
- Pregnant Passions: Keep Intimacy Alive
If pregnancy has caused you and your partner to lose that lovin' feeling, don't despair; reviving intimacy may be easier than you think.
- Less Stress for Healthier Mom, Baby
Pregnancy itself can be stressful. And combined with other influences, stress during pregnancy can be compounded. But stress relief might be easier than you think.
- 10 Ways to Eat Healthy While on Vacation
Don't leave your good eating habits behind when you get away from it all
- Is Your House Making You Sick?
Do you have a sick house? Lead paint, pesticides, and pollution can contribute to sick house syndrome. Here are 10 things you can do to keep your house, and you, healthy.
- How to Stop Nagging
Find more effective ways to communicate in your relationship, and leave the nagging behind.
- Valentine's Day: Look, Feel Better
Need some Valentine's Day ideas for looking and feeling better? Read on.
- The Root Cause of Road Rage
Road rage has happened to more than half of all drivers. Here's what to do to avoid being a road rager and to avoid other ragers.
- The Truth About Fats
Omega-3, Omega-6, and Trans Fats: Not all fats are equal. Learn which ones actually boost your health!
- Fighting Fatigue? Get a Better Life
Are you always tired? You're not alone. Here are some tips on fighting fatigue and improving your life.
- Monitoring Blood Pressure at Home
If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, known medically as hypertension, your doctor may recommend that you use a home monitor to check your blood pressure between visits.
- Sailing Into Sickness?
Knowing what outbreaks can occur on a cruise ship and how to treat them can keep you from getting sick at sea.
- The Ghost of Smallpox Past
Despite its being dead for 25 years, the specter of a smallpox pestilence -- via terrorism -- haunts the public.
- Help for Hot Flashes
Is soy the solution to this menopausal symptom?
- Clinical Trials: Cutting-Edge Care
Participating in a clinical trial can yield big benefits for cancer patients, but it's important to know the risks first.
- Big Gals Just Want to Have Fun
Fed up with feeling fat, 'women of size' are turning to nightclubs and groups where big is beautiful and the skinny ones are spurned.
- How Drugs Affect the Sexes.
How Drugs Affect the Sexes
- Stress and the Sexes
Gender differences extend to nearly every aspect of human behavior, including how we handle stress. While men face troubles head on or ignore them completely, women in stressful situations focus on bonding with friends and nurturing family. Researchers may now understand why.
- Your Medical Roots
Learning about your family tree -- from your great-grandparents' birthplace to the story of your parents' courtship -- is fun and interesting. But knowing your medical genealogy can help save your life.
- The Change Before 'The Change'
Hot Flashes, Infertility, Happen Earlier Than You'd Expect
- The Risks of Cancer-Related Anemia
You don't have to be bone-tired during treatment.
- You Give Me (Spring) Fever
New Season Brings Boost of Energy, but Also Unplanned Pregnancies
- The Men in Your Life
All too often, women -- wives, moms, sisters, friends -- are either nagging the men in their lives about their lax attitude toward health care or playing caretaker to them when things go wrong. Here are some expert tips for helping the men in your life get healthy.
- When It Hurts, Gender Matters
One in five women lives with chronic pain, and she may find it difficult to get help. The problem can be traced back to the differences in how boys and girls are raised as well as lagging medical knowledge of how treatments affect women specifically.
- Get Him Over His Ex
Not everyone who gets dumped or divorced shifts effortlessly from anger to 'over it.' A man may still be in love with his ex and wish things had turned out differently. But even if that's the case, he still could be in love with the new woman in his life. Sound complex? It is.
- You Are Woman; Hear Your Friends
Women-friends are less biased about your love life than the ones you share with your man. So listen up!
- Looking Good, Feeling Rotten
When you feel lousy, but look fine, you may have quite a hard time finding a doctor, or even a friend, to take your complaints seriously. But do your homework, be persistent, and find the help and support you need to get well. Getting to the root of your problem may take time and try your patience ... but what's more important than your health?
- Growing Older, Staying Strong
Aging isn't a matter of just fading away. Active, older people -- and some experts on the aging process -- say we can stay physically robust well into our later years.
- Filling Sick Lately?
The argument over whether mercury in silver dental fillings is dangerous has spilled over into the courts, with a consumer advocacy group accusing the American Dental Association of deliberately misleading the public -- and endangering health.
- Period Problems: What They Mean and When to See the Doctor
The Monthly Bill. The Woman's Curse. The nicknames we give to the monthly shedding of the uterus lining reflect the troubles it brings. So how do you know what's normal and what's not?
- Fighting a Mysterious Disease
Many autoimmune ailments like lupus, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis are misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Where does that leave suffering women?
- Caregivers: The Invisible Patient
Caregiving is a relentless job that so isolates the one providing care that she becomes 'invisible' to family, friends, and the healthcare team. This isolation and invisibility puts the caregiver at risk for serious illness of her own -- and even death.
- Treating Menopause's Secret Symptom.
Most people are aware that women approaching menopause can face a myriad of symptoms, including hot flashes, mood swings, and trouble with memory. The symptom you may not have heard about is atrophic vaginitis, a common condition that can have a major impact on intimate relationships and overall quality of life. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and there are many effective treatments.
- Women Behaving Badly?
They're grumpy, they're grouchy ... and there's nothing wrong with that. A growing group of critics contend that there's nothing dysfunctional, dysphoric, or diseased about a woman's natural hormonal rhythms -- period.
- Mother Knows Best
Mom deserves a lot more credit than we give her. Here are 10 things that she got right.
- Help Wanted: More Female Ob/Gyns
Across the country, women are making it clear that they prefer female physicians. Medical schools are responding -- but is it discrimination?
- Girls Just Wanna Have Food
Cereals, energy bars, and soy drinks designed for women are one of the latest trends in new products.
- My Odyssey With LASIK Surgery
Not everyone achieves perfect eyesight. Consider the pluses and minuses before deciding if it's right for you.
- My Odyssey With LASIK Surgery
Not everyone achieves perfect eyesight. Consider the pluses and minuses before deciding if it's right for you.
- Fighting Against a Mass Murderer.
Lung cancer is America's leading cancer killer. Women who smoke seem especially resistant to the message.
- Curbing the Violence.
Programs to combat dating and domestic abuse are aiming for younger, middle school audiences.
- A Mysterious Ailment
Weight gain, facial hair, irregular menstruation -- all are symptoms of a hormonal disorder that plagues millions of women. Here's how to spot it.
- A Mysterious Ailment.
Weight gain, facial hair, irregular menstruation -- all are symptoms of a hormonal disorder that plagues millions of women. Here's how to spot it.
- Walking the Walk
How do you get a group of women to improve their cardiovascular health? Get them moving.
- Stress and Gender.
A new study shows that women may not deal with stress in the same way as men.
- Stress and Gender..
A new study shows that women may not deal with stress in the same way as men.
- Stress and Gender
A new study shows that women may not deal with stress in the same way as men.