Not Her Mother's Hysterectomy
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In my dream, I'm Sigourney Weaver in "Alien" -- tough, brassy and fit, fighting a hideous extraterrestrial parasite that could invade my body and burst from my midsection at any moment. In real life, I'm a 49-year-old nonprofit employee, semi-tough, semi-brassy and semi-fit, fighting a humongous ...
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One breadwinner mother finds that the role requires a steeper learning curve and a stronger stomach than expected.
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There is growth, but it's not homemade.
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NEW YORK  - One of the newest treatments  for fibroids, a procedure called uterine artery embolization  (UAE) that cuts off blood to the benign tumors, is usually  considered only suitable for women who have finished having  babies. However, women can conceive and carry a child to term  following UAE, a Canadian team reports.
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Sorry. Some of those things you learned from your grandmother just are not true.
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Cosmetic procedures billed as "vaginal rejuvenation," "designer vaginoplasty" or even "revirgination" are not medically necessary and are not guaranteed to be safe, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists cautioned on Friday.
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Abdominal pain in an adolescent girl can have a simple common explanation, but it cannot be taken for granted as a simple question.
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A hospital admits making a mistake after a woman was given a Caesarean section without an anaesthetic.
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In the end, it wasn&#39;ta fingerprint or a blood spatter that led to the woman suspected of strangling a mother-to-be and cutting the baby from her womb.
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As a home-care provider, she helps those who can&#39;t help themselves, such as a mother of three whose brain was damaged during childbirth.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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An expensive treatment designed to improve a woman's chance of pregnancy actually does the reverse, research suggests.
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Ultrasound images from the womb are increasingly being made not for medical purposes but by companies offering expectant parents a sort of prebirth viewing.
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Women in labor may not be given an epidural at first, for fear that it will slow down the process of cervical dilation, but that concern seems to be unfounded.
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A deadly gene's path can hide in a family tree when a woman has few aunts and older sisters, making it appear that her breast cancer struck out of nowhere when it really came from Dad.
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Two recent studies that suggested oral contraceptives reduced a woman&#39;s risk of heart disease and cancer seemed to take conventional wisdom and stand it on its head.
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Maria didn't mean to poison her children. Quite the opposite.