womenshealth
An online training programme in Australia aims to help women who suffer from chronic pelvic pain feel less abandoned. Vagenius Training also wants to help general practitioners (GPs) to understand persistent pelvic pain better. According to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in the UK, long-term pelvic pain affects around one in six women at some point in their lives. Chronic pelvic pain is any pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis lasting more than 6 months. Louise Richardson-Self, a chronic pelvic pain patient in Hobart, Australia, uses stretching, medication and an a...
Euronews (English)
The percentage of people who say they’ve tried to end a pregnancy without medical assistance increased after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That’s according to a study published Tuesday in the online journal JAMA Network Open. Tia Freeman, a reproductive health organizer, leads workshops for Tennesseans on how to safely take medication abortion pills outside of medical settings. Abortion is almost entirely illegal in Tennessee. Freeman, who lives near Nashville, said people planning to stop pregnancies have all sorts of reasons for wanting to do so without help from the formal healt...
Kaiser Health News
The percentage of people who say they’ve tried to end a pregnancy without medical assistance increased after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. That’s according to a study published Tuesday in the online journal JAMA Network Open. Tia Freeman, a reproductive health organizer, leads workshops for Tennesseans on how to safely take medication abortion pills outside of medical settings. Abortion is almost entirely illegal in Tennessee. Freeman, who lives near Nashville, said people planning to stop pregnancies have all sorts of reasons for wanting to do so without help from the formal healt...
California Healthline
Australia has seen a rapid increase in breast implant removal in recent years as many women report experiencing severe symptoms post-implantation. According to data from the Australian Breast Device Registry, the number of women undergoing "explant surgery" - the procedure to remove an implant - has surged from 0.4 in 2016 to seven in 2022. These figures include women who had their implants extracted post-cancer. Your antiperspirant deodorant may be causing breast cancer, two new studies showCristina Tamba, a dermal therapist living in Queensland, Australia, is one of those who underwent an ex...
Euronews (English)
The first time Tammy and Jordan Myers held their twins, the premature babies were so fragile that their tiny faces were mostly covered by oxygen masks and tubing. Their little hands rested gently on Tammy’s chest as the machines keeping them alive in a neonatal intensive care unit in Grand Rapids, Michigan, beeped and hummed around them. It was an incredible moment, but also a terrifying one. A court had just denied the Myers’ parental rights to the twins, who were born via surrogate using embryos made from Jordan’s sperm and Tammy’s eggs. (Tammy’s eggs had been frozen before she underwent tre...
Kaiser Health News
From Clue and Flo to Premom and Stardust, there are many popular applications women use to monitor their health by tracking information such as their periods, ovulation cycles, and sexual activity. But are female health apps protecting this sensitive data? A team of researchers in the UK found “problematic practices, including inconsistencies” regarding data privacy in several female health apps. They presented the research at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Honolulu, Hawaii in the US this month. The researchers analysed 20 popular female health apps available on the US...
Euronews (English)
Menstrual periods may be starting earlier in younger generations, according to new research. The study was published on Wednesday in the scientific journal JAMA Network Open and based on data from the Apple Women’s Health Study, which involved 71,341 women. Researchers in the US found that the average age at which girls begin menstruating has decreased from 12.5 years for those born between 1950 and 1969 to 11.9 years for those born between 2000 and 2005. There has also been an increase in the time it takes for menstrual cycles to become regular after menarche (the first menstrual cycle), with...
Euronews (English)
Your guide on what to expect when going to the gynecologist in Japan. In a culture where Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi faces obscenity charges due to the public display of her vagina-inspired art, it’s hardly surprising that there is a lack of accessible sexual health information and female-friendly gynecologist clinics in Japan. But that doesn’t mean that the services aren’t out there. They are. Whether it’s for something pregnancy-related or just for a check-up, here’s a guide on what to expect when going to the gynecologist in Japan. Finding a Gynecologist in JapanLast week, a few female ...
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