Women’s Health

Study Sees Improving Survival Odds for Ovarian Caner: Women diagnosed today 50 percent less likely to die than they were in the 1970s, researchers say.  "There is better surgery, better chemo and better ways to deliver the chemo. More recently, there has also been a...

The following are recent articles and research papers that may be of great interest to you: Skip your annual physical, an Op-Ed from the New York Times, 08 January 2015. Excerpts: "Around 45 million Americans are likely to have a routine physical this year — just as...

The following are excerpts from a New York Times article How Exercise Changes Our DNA that was published on 17 December 2014.  It explains, in plain language, the findings of recent research titled An integrative analysis reveals coordinated reprogramming of the epigenome and the transcriptome...

Are breast cancer patients being treated longer than necessary? Why undergo 5 to 7 weeks of radiation when 3 weeks suffice? According a new research (citation below), physicians are slow to change their practice despite women's preference for a shorter course of treatment for many reasons:...