Latest Health Articles for Women

• Tips on hormone use, coping with menopause

  article 2009-10-26  |  Author: The Associated Press
  What to do if women's health experts recommend.A good doctor will do an exam to make sure ...

• More than half million kids get bad drug reactions

  article 2009-09-28  |  Author: Lindsey Tanner
  More than half a million U.S. Children younger than age 5 are most commonly affected. Penicillin and other prescription antibiotics are among drugs causing the ......

• Neb. doctor wants to carry on Tiller's mission

  article 2009-06-03  |  Author: Eric Olson
  Physician LeRoy Carhart wants to continue providing third-term abortions after the brazen slaying of his friend and colleague George Tiller, but the Nebraska doctor doesn't have anywhere to perform them — and he's one of only a handful of providers who will.Tiller's Wichita, Kan., clinic was shuttered Sunday after the ......

• Giving birth is fraught with danger in Haiti

  article 2009-03-16  |  Author: Jonathan M. Katz
  The pain was different from before — deeper, sharper. Everyone else was sleeping in the banana grove shack, but Yslande Aristide could not bear it. She stood on the dirt floor and started to scream.In rushed her sisters with candles and water. Then came the midwife, who made tea from ......

• Octuplet mom was treated at Beverly Hills clinic

  article 2009-02-10  |  Author: Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
  The mother of octuplets was implanted with those embryos at a Beverly Hills fertility clinic run by a well-known — and controversial — specialist who pioneered a method of implantation.Dr. Michael Kamrava's name emerged Monday as a result of an interview aired Monday on NBC with Nadya Suleman, who gave ......

• Teen pregnancies tied to tastes for sexy TV shows

  article 2008-11-03  |  Author: Lindsey Tanner
  Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behavior than among those who have tamer viewing tastes."Sex and the City," anyone? That was one of the shows used in the research.The new study is the ......

• Egypt septuplets stir debate on fertility drugs

  article 2008-08-27  |  Author: Hadeel Al-shalchi
  The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children — all girls. They badly wanted a boy, and she had not conceived in five years, so doctors gave her hormones.The startling result was healthy septuplets — four boys and three girls — heralded by Egyptian doctors as ......

• Mayor of Massachusetts town says no proof girls at high school entered into pregnancy pact

  article 2008-06-24  |  Author: Melissa Trujillo
  The city's mayor said Monday there is no evidence a group of young girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, seeking to dispel an explosive theory put forth by the high school principal."Any planned blood-oath bond to become pregnant — there is absolutely no evidence ......

• Teen exercise protects against breast cancer later in life

  article 2008-05-13  |  Author: Lauran Neergaard
  New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer after ...

• California teen gives birth in shower, walks to hospital

  article 2008-05-04  |  Author: Staff
  A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord."I was just a little nervous" when the labor began, Xochitl Parra said Friday from St. Mary Medical Center as she cradled her 8-pound, 3-ounce son, Alejandro.The ......