Women's Health

Nothing instills more confidence in your patients than replying “uh, 12 weeks” after they’ve asked how many years of experience you have as a doctor.

Sex-specific differences in the performance of noninvasive testing for ischemic heart disease necessitate a sex-based diagnostic workup with a multimodality approach to better understand women’s chest pain symptoms, researchers reported.

In postmenopausal women, eating prunes every day prevented loss of hip bone mineral density and protected against hip fractures, according to a randomized controlled trial published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Compared with non-users, female athletes who regularly use cannabis had reduced early anaerobic power production and may have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, according to published results.

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have worse diet quality and engage in less physical activity than women without PCOS, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday that aims to support patients who travel out of state for abortion services and ensure health care providers adhere to federal nondiscrimination laws.

The Women’s Preventive Services Initiative — or WPSI — issued new guidelines for preventing weight gain in women aged 40 to 60 years.

An estimated 162.9 million women globally had an unmet need for contraception in 2019, with those aged 15 to 19 years with the highest unmet demand, an analysis published in The Lancet showed.

Certain factors were associated with heart palpitations in menopause, according to findings of a scoping literature review in Women’s Health.

Female patients with rheumatoid arthritis are more likely to achieve remission when treated with exogenous sex hormones, particularly those who are perimenopausal and early postmenopausal, according to data published in Rheumatology.