Women's Health: Overview

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  • Changes to Expect

    Article
    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Some women continue to menstruate normally until the onset of menopause and then simply cease to have periods. But for most women, the transition is not so orderly. You can expect to see a variety of changes. What they are and why they happen is the

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  • Mid-Life Medical Checkup

    Article
    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Most women will live many vital, useful, and enjoyable years after menopause. To stay healthy during this phase of life, preventive health measures and medical care are needed. When the signs of mid-life changes begin to appear, it's a good reminder

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  • Anorexics

    Article
    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Anorexics don't eat; but that doesn't mean they lack an appetite. Indeed, anorexics often display an obsessive interest in food. A typical anorexic will read about food, shop for, cook, and constantly think about food, in fact, will do everything wi

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  • Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) - Topic Overview

    Article
    07/07/06, Healthwise

    Most women have tender breasts, bloating, and muscle aches a few days before they start their menstrual periods. These are normal premenstrual symptoms. But when they affect your daily life, they are called premenstrual syndrome

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  • Premature Ovarian Failure

    Article
    05/26/06, Healthwise

    This topic contains information about loss of ovarian function before age 40. If you want information about the normal loss of ovarian function around age 50 or about symptoms in the few years before it, see the topic:

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  • Endometrial (Uterine) Cancer - What Happens

    Article
    11/27/06, Healthwise

    Normally, the lining of the uterus (endometrium) builds up and then sheds every month. You know this shedding as menstrual bleeding. In most cases of endometrial cancer, the endometrium has built up, or thickened, and has stayed t

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  • Do Women Need to Be More Careful with Their Oral Health?

    Article
    01/01/03, Academy of General Dentistry

    Women's oral health depends on their different stages of life. For many women, these changes are directly related to surges in sex hormone levels, such as in puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, lactation and menopause. Women are also more likely to be

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  • Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity

    Article
    01/01/03, PDR.net

    You see their photos everywhere: gaunt models strutting the latest in fashion, skinny socialites dining in trendy restaurants, svelte young actresses partying till dawn at the newest club. No wonder American women seem obsessed with their weight. B

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  • Going Too Far

    Article
    01/01/03, PDR.net

    Nearly everyone has seen the images: an impossibly thin young girl, obsessively toying with food but never eating it, the details of her skeleton clearly visible through her dry flesh; or the young woman with bulimia, compulsively stuffing herself w

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  • What a Menstrual Problem Could Mean

    Article
    01/01/03, PDR.net

    There's as much variation in menstruation as there is in women. One sister has her first period at 11, the second at 14. One woman is "as regular as clockwork," another's cycles fall randomly across the calendar. There seems to be no rhyme or reaso

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