Women's Health

Women's Health

As many as 2 million American women have bleeding disorders and do not know it, according to the Office on...
Although they outnumber people with hemophilia by a large margin, those with von Willebrand disease (VWD) feel practically invisible at...
The number one cause of hospitalizations for women is not breast cancer, stroke or heart attack—it’s fractures caused by osteoporosis...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is replacing its previous A-X system of rating the risk of prescription drugs...
For six months during 2014, representatives of 14 NHF chapters from across the country gathered virtually once a month to...
Pregnant women, young children, women with heavy periods and people with bleeding disorders have at least one thing in common—they...
Kari Peepe, 35, has platelet storage pool disorder and laughingly describes herself as a bit of a klutz. This Rohnert...
Women in their 60s are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as they are to be diagnosed with breast...
When it comes to music and movement, everyone has an innate rhythm. The pulse of reggae, the gliding feel of...
In April 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the cobas human papillomavirus (HPV) test as a stand-alone...
Although men and women both experience strokes, an interruption of blood flow to the brain, their symptoms can vary. That’s...
Few medical conditions mirror the pain of a burst appendix. But women with a ruptured ovarian cyst say it comes...
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