Feature Channels: Women's Health

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Preventing heart disease starts much earlier than you may realize, according to a new American Heart Association scientific statement published today in a Go Red For Women spotlight issue of the Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation.

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A virtual reality (VR) exercise session may be as effective as telehealth appointments at providing short-term pain relief for women diagnosed with endometriosis, according to the results of a new health study.

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Women with continence issues are reluctant to continue many sports and gym programs, but new research has found a way to help women undertake resistance training that will help reduce the risk of stress urinary incontinence.

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This is amongst the findings of the 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding, which comprises three papers launched in South Africa on 10 February and in the UK on 8 February.

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In a large-scale nationwide study, investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have confirmed that rates of pancreatic cancer are rising—and are rising faster among younger women, particularly Black women, than among men of the same age. Their work was published today in the peer-reviewed journal Gastroenterology.

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Age-based heuristics can lead to large differences in breast cancer treatment based on small differences in chronologic age, according to a new analysis of more than 500,000 patient records. Radiation therapy often is given after breast-conserving surgery to help prevent a patient’s cancer from returning.

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Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women and men in the United States. It causes one in every four U.S. deaths.

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As the nation continues to recognize American Heart Month, the Smidt Heart Institute’s Ruchira Garg, MD, director of Congenital Noninvasive Cardiology in the Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program at Cedars-Sinai, and Susanna Tran, MD, sat down with the Cedars-Sinai Newsroom to spotlight specialized fetal imaging.

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Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in plastics may contribute to diabetes risk in women, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

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Cleveland Clinic researchers have launched the next step in their novel study of a vaccine aimed at preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease.

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Mulheres com câncer em uma das mamas podem ter um risco mais elevado de desenvolver câncer na mama oposta caso sejam portadoras de mutações genéticas que as predisponham ao desenvolvimento de câncer de mama, de acordo com um estudo conduzido pelo Centro de Câncer da Mayo Clinic.

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Las mujeres con cáncer en una mama pueden tener un mayor riesgo de presentar cáncer en la otra mama si son portadoras de cambios genéticos específicos que las predisponen a desarrollar cáncer de mama, de acuerdo con un estudio liderado por el Centro Oncológico Integral de Mayo Clinic.

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Susan G. Komen commends the introduction of legislation in California that would remove financial barriers to imaging that can rule out breast cancer or confirm the need for a biopsy. In 2023, more than 32,020 people will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 4,680 will die of the disease in California alone.

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The human body runs on a finely tuned clock synchronized to the 24-hour cycle of Earth’s rotation, known as the circadian clock, which controls various physiological processes such as the sleep-wake cycle, hormone production, and metabolism.