Women's Health News

Since 2017, a school nurse in a Dallas suburb has been counting women murdered by men.

By 2014, women younger than 55 accounted for 31 percent of hospitalizations for heart attack -- up from 21 percent in the late 1990s.

Research suggests that use of the drug greatly raises a pregnant woman's odd for miscarriage, as well as the odds that her baby will have a heart defect.

Women who drank two or more diet drinks per day saw their overall stroke risk rise by 23 percent, compared with those who had diet drinks less than once a week.

The company said it is working with state agencies to transfer patients in the facility to other locations. There are 37 patients in the facility, according to NBC affiliate KPNX of Phoenix.

Researchers now believe that most women with non-cancerous ovarian cysts can simply be monitored over time, instead of having invasive surgery to remove the growths.

Women who eat more than one serving a week of fried chicken or fried fish have an increased risk of heart disease and death, researchers who analyzed information from the long-running Women’s Health Initiative report.

The findings indicate that both body size and physical activity are related to lifespan, but the associations seem to differ between men and women.

About one-fifth -- 21 percent -- said they had to go without pads or tampons on a monthly basis, and nearly half said they often had to make tough choices between buying food or period-related products.

The 29-year-old female patient had been in a vegetative state for more than 10 years after a near-drowning. The baby was born on Dec. 29.

Surgically removing the thyroid is usually a safe procedure. However, some of the side effects of the operation can be so severe that patients need to be hospitalized.

The recall in the United States and Canada involves certain lots of the product made between Oct. 7, 2016, and Oct. 16, 2018, and distributed between Oct. 17, 2016, and Oct. 23, 2018.

Abortion opponents have say Planned Parenthood -- the nation's largest abortion provider -- should not receive any government money.

Women with at least one of three specific risk factors probably would benefit from mammograms starting at 30, new research suggests.

In a new study, adults with antibiotic-resistant UTIs were more likely to have a relapse within a week and were more likely to be prescribed an incorrect antibiotic than a comparison group of patients with non-resistant UTIs.

Researchers have found that three heart disease risk factors -- smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure -- increased the odds of heart attack for both genders, but the rise went higher for women than men.

The practice of cutting young girls’ genitals dropped sharply in Africa between 1990 and 2017, according to a new study. In western Asia, however, the practice has continued to grow.

The most common reason for egg freezing was not having a partner or having a partner who wouldn't commit to fatherhood, a small new study has found.

Fewer babies are being born in the United States, and women are generally older when they have their first child, according to a new government report.

Sexual harassment and assault have real and measurable physical impacts on victims, as well as mental health effects, according to research published in the latest JAMA Internal Medicine.

The new trial included 140 younger, premenopausal women in Europe who had all experienced high numbers of recurrent UTIs. Their total daily fluid intake at the start of the study totaled less than six 8-ounce glasses per day.

Researchers in Switzerland determined that women who are the "fittest" for reproduction have a distinctive scent that makes them particularly appealing to men.

Forty-four percent of the 1,754 UTIs studied were contracted outside a hospital, the highest rate ever reported in the United States, according to the study published recently in the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine.

A long-term study of about 22,000 postmenopausal women in the United States found that those whose mothers had lived to age 90 were 25 percent more likely to reach that milestone without suffering serious health issues. The chances are even higher if both parents reached 90.

Brain scans revealed that regions of damaged white matter in the brain were five times more extensive in the women than in the men.