Women’s Health

Does Your Body Have a “Set” Weight?

Sep 25, 2023 · · Cancer
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 · · Cancer
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 · · Cancer
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

Why More Women Are Diagnosed with Anxiety

May 23, 2023 · · Cancer
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 · · Cancer
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 · · Cancer
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

New FDA-Approved Treatment for Hair Loss

Apr 25, 2023 · · Cancer
In June of last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved baricitinib (Olumiant) oral tablets to treat adult patients with severe alopecia areata, a disorder that often appears as patchy baldness and affects more than 300,000 people in the U.S. each year. This is the first FDA approval of … Read More

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