Routine breakfast skippers should gradually increase protein intake in the morningStudy participants ate a high-protein breakfast wrap with lean beef and eggs. …read more
The giant insurer has joined the backlash against the use of laparoscopic power morcellators that have been shown to disperse undiagnosed uterine cancer in abdominal cavities. Medscape Medical News …read more
The United Kingdom has moved closer to approving use of this technology to enable women with mitochondrial gene mutations to have healthy children, but the FDA is being much more conservative. Medscape Ob/Gyn …read more
Survivors of human trafficking reveal the extent of their poor living and working conditions, accompanied with various associated health problems in a new study. …read more
Teen girls who live in rural areas are more likely than their male counterparts to have undiagnosed asthma, and they often are at a higher risk of depression, according to researchers at the Medical… …read more
Metformin and intensive lifestyle intervention both halt progression to diabetes among women with a history of gestational diabetes; strangely, though, metformin flops for women who didn’t have GDM. Medscape Medical News …read more
Obese women who undergo bariatric surgery before pregnancy have reduced risk for gestational diabetes and large-for-gestational-age infants, but risk for other adverse effects may be increased. Medscape Medical News …read more
Younger women may ignore or dismiss the earliest symptoms of an impending heart attack, such as pain and dizziness, and delay seeking emergency medical care. …read more
The latest gender-specific research on heart disease continues to show differences between women and men, yet gaps remain in how to best diagnose, treat and prevent this number one killer of women… …read more
Scientists have identified weak spots in cancer cells that could be targeted and attacked by new precision drugs. …read more