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Relieve Vaginal Dryness and Revive Your Postmenopausal Sex Life

Sep 25, 2023 · Rochelle Nataloni · Women's Health

Vaginal dryness due to declining estrogen levels is one of the most common complaints among postmenopausal women. “For many women, this means painful sex. My patients ask if there’s anything that can be done to restore their sex life, and my answer is almost always ‘yes,’” says Margaret Polaneczky, MD, … Read More

Be Your Own Advocate in the Fight Against Breast Cancer

Sep 25, 2023 · Orli R. Etingin, M.D. · Women's Health

In this issue, you will learn about cutting-edge therapies for breast cancer that have changed the way we approach the disease. Instead of deciding treatment based on size and cell appearance alone, we are using the genetic footprint of the tumor to understand its malignant and metastatic potential, and treatment … Read More

Here’s What’s New in Breast Cancer Risk Prediction and Treatment

Sep 25, 2023 · Rochelle Nataloni · Women's Health

There’s no better time than Breast Cancer Awareness Month to embrace the knowledge that while everyone’s risk for getting breast cancer is due to a complex combination of biological, social, and demographic influences, the primary factors are being a woman and getting older. Most breast cancers are found in women … Read More

Does Your Body Have a “Set” Weight?

Sep 25, 2023 · UHN Staff · Women's Health

The set point theory for weight, which has been around since the 1970s, suggests that your body has a specific weight range to which you are genetically predisposed. In other words, the body tries to stay within a certain weight range. It’s a popular theory. But, if your body has … Read More

Can’t Make It to the Bathroom in Time?

Aug 25, 2023 · UHN Staff · Women's Health

Whether you leak a little when you cough or laugh, get up several times a night to pee, or must plan every outing knowing where the bathroom is, bladder problems can be quite embarrassing to admit and challenging to manage. However, urinary incontinence (UI) is a very common condition in … Read More

Give Careful Consideration to Aspirin’s Risks and Benefits

Jul 9, 2023 · Dawn Bialy · Women's Health

Remember baby aspirin—those chewable, orange-flavored pills that you might have been given if you had a fever when you were a child? The same dosage of acetylsalicylic acid that was in baby aspirin—81 milligrams—is now in products labeled “lowdose” aspirin. However, evidence from many studies conducted over the years has … Read More

Frontline: Strong bones and dementia; Drug for hot flashes; Clogged arteries

Jun 26, 2023 · Dawn Bialy · Women's Health

Stronger Bones Linked with Lower Dementia Risk Older adults who have weaker, more brittle bones are more likely to develop dementia, according to a study published May 16, 2023, in the journal Neurology. In the study, bone mineral density (BMD) was measured at various locations using a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry … Read More

Why More Women Are Diagnosed with Anxiety

May 23, 2023 · UHN Staff · Women's Health

Broad statistics suggest that anxiety plagues women much more than men. When the subject is explored more deeply from societal, biological, and physiological perspectives, important realities come to light. For example, compared to men, women are more likely to seek medical care, including mental health care, and therefore are diagnosed … Read More

What Happens If You Eat Too Many or Too Few Carbohydrates?

May 23, 2023 · Denise Webb · Women's Health

Carbs tend to be viewed as the dietary bad guy. But is the situation really so black and white? It’s true that excess carbohydrates has increasingly been shown to contribute to the growing epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that carbohydrates make … Read More

Frontline: LDL cholesterol; urinary incontinence; healthy eating and mortality risk

Apr 25, 2023 · Dawn Bialy · Women's Health

Supplements Don’t Reduce LDL Cholesterol—Statins Do If you’re looking to improve cholesterol levels, count on statins, not supplements. The Supplements, Placebo or Rosuvastatin Study (SPORT) trial reported that for people at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, preventive low-dose statin therapy was the only treatment that lowered LDL (“bad”) cholesterol more … Read More

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