Topic: Work and social strain increase women’s risk of coronary heart disease According to a new study, the combined effect of stress from social interactions and paid work increases women’s likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD) by 21%. The study also found that high stress life events were linked with a 12% increase in…
Topic: Higher BMI in childhood may help protect women against breast cancer in later life, both before and after the menopause A study of more than 173,000 women in Denmark, presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) held online this year, suggests that girls with a higher body mass index (BMI) during childhood are…
Topic: Pandemic Brought Preterm Births Down, but not all Women Benefitted Equally Last spring, when the whole world went into hibernation to try to curb the spread of a new virus ravaging the planet, few people were able to look on the bright side. But a few months later, neonatologists in different parts of the…
Topic: Two or more of these risk factors during pregnancy may increase a child’s risk of mental health problems years later Doctors have long known that unplanned pregnancies in women with certain chronic health problems and exposure in the womb to substances like drugs and alcohol can lead to a child’s increased risk for psychiatric…
Topic: U.S. birth rate falls to lowest point in more than a century One in eight couples suffers from infertility in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report…
Topic: Why Americans lack adequate access to fertility treatments One in eight couples suffers from infertility in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. My husband and I are that one in eight. When we decided to start our family in 2017, I was 29 years old and expected…
Topic: 5 Foods to include in your diet for your baby’s hair growth during pregnancy It is said that what you eat during the nine months of pregnancy decides your baby’s health. One of the most important aspects of getting the right nutrition in your body also affects your baby’s hair growth. Here are 5…
Topic: Tips to help make women’s health a priority for Mother’s Day With Mother’s Day part of the annual springtime cycle of renewal, this year’s celebration may bring added significance given Tennessee’s continued reopening amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As more people become vaccinated and some families start to gather in person again, it may be…
Topic: What to Do If Your Baby Keeps Falling Asleep While Nursing When you have a new baby, you often get a lot of warnings about how your little one — and you! — will sleep. But you may be surprised to find that in the first few weeks of your baby’s life, they do…
Topic: What We Know About Women’s Health and Vaccines When federal health officials and the CDC decided to pause distribution of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for ten days earlier this month, after several women developed a rare blood-clot disorder within two weeks of vaccination, some Americans expressed concern about potential effects the vaccine…