Pregnancy-related deaths have increased substantially in the past decade and caesareans are often involved, a recent study suggests. While the rise in maternal mortality can also be attributed to factors such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and low socio-economic background, the increase in c-section deaths is particularly alarming. A World Health Organization study conducted in 2010 ...
All women have a menstrual cycle and bleed and usually have some kind of emotional changes once a month. Whether or not you are open enough to discuss it, this is what is happening with your mother, sister, daughter, and wife. There is a range of problems that can come with PMS. And, although it ...
We knew this was coming. Period pains cause abnormal changes in brain structure, scientists have been able to show. Which makes most of us ladies, well, abnormal too. Professor Jen-Chuen Hsieh, from the Institute of Brain Science at National Yang-Ming University in Taipei, observed the changes in the gray matter, but has not yet determined ...
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