When I went to the hospital last year for my annual mammogram, I expected to be in and out in 60 minutes. Being a healthy female in my mid-40s with no symptoms or major risk factors, I knew my chances ...

Charlotte Holland said she was lucky her insurance covered the near £19,000 procedure in order to avoid being put on the NHS ...

Magnesium may help relieve or prevent period cramps. Learn the facts about magnesium, how much and what type to take, and its ...

It seemed like endometriosis to me, and maybe adenomyosis, a condition that involves the uterine muscle, too. The challenge was to convince doctors to name ... Still, I was grateful not to play with ...

Data recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that staying fit could reduce the risk of dying from cancer. The study looked at two different readouts for fitness: muscle ...

also called uterine leiomyomata, are the most common benign tumour affecting women. They are noncancerous tumours that originate from the muscle cells of the uterus, called myometrium, and their ...

Writing for BBC Science Focus, women’s health expert Dr Michelle Giffin said: “If they didn’t already have enough to worry about, women who are found to have fibroids during pregnancy need careful ...

Part of that spike is due to rising rates of cancers that affect primarily women, including breast cancer and endometrial cancer (a.k.a. cancer in the lining of the uterus), Rebecca Siegel, MPH, ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients diagnosed with cancer, high muscle strength and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) are associated with a reduced risk for all-cause mortality, according to a review ...

High muscle strength and cardiorespiratory fitness are linked to a significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality in cancer patients, according to a new study. Patients with better fitness levels ...