
What Is a Hysterectomy?
Having your uterus removed during a hysterectomy is a big step, but recovery is usually complete in about six weeks and the benefits may be worth it for you.
What you eat during pregnancy may predict whether your baby one day becomes obese. Here's what you should know about eating a nutritious diet when you're pregnant.
Don’t hide your postpartum depression symptoms. There’s new help for women who have lingering mood symptoms before or after a birth.
While they are not cancer, uterine fibroids, growths inside your uterus, can become uncomfortable and cause bleeding as they grow. Here's what you should know.
Heart attack symptoms in women are sometimes hard to spot. Here is why heart disease is often missed in women — and what you can do about it.
Taking hormone replacement (HRT) during menopause has some risk, but there are good reasons to take the medication. Here’s what you should know.
Reported benefits of having sex include improved immunity, better sleep and heart health, delayed menopause, protection from prostate cancer, and pain relief.
There are proven, healthy ways to lose weight — but there’s no pill or supplement you can take to make pounds magically disappear.
Cultural perception of beauty — our own and that of the media — changes, over and over again. Here’s what you can do to find self-esteem in any body shape era.
Endometrial cancer occurs when cells in the inner lining of the uterus (or endometrium), which is shed during menstruation, grow out of control.
Mammograms are extremely important for detecting breast cancer early, but you can typically stop them once you’re 75. But if you have dense breasts, you might continue having them even past that age.