During your pregnancy you may experience some minor discomforts as your body changes and grows. Normal discomforts can include heartburn, backaches, feeling tired or ligamental pain in the abdomen. However, other signs can signal more...
Vaginal bleeding is scary when you're pregnant, and if you experience it, you should call your health care provider immediately. That said, just because you experience bleeding during your pregnancy doesn't mean that your pregnancy is in trouble....
The Pap smear, named for its creator, Dr. George Papanicolaou, is a medical screening test health care providers use to check for changes in the cervix that indicate cancer, precancerous conditions or infection. The cervix is the lower part of the...
Physicians estimate that 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies result in a miscarriage, according to the Mayo Clinic. That number is probably higher, because many miscarriages occur very early in pregnancy, before a woman realizes that she is...
Spotting between cycles is commonly known as intermenstrual bleeding, breakthrough bleeding, abnormal uterine bleeding and bleeding between periods. Metrorrhagia is the official medical term. It can be, but is not always, a symptom of disease or...
Physicians may prescribe hormone replacement treatment primarily for women in menopause or following this change of life. One of the choices for hormone replacement, the medication sold in the United Kingdom and elsewhere as Femoston, combines...
The typical pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks, but delivery that occurs between 20 and 37 weeks is considered preterm. Preterm or premature labor and delivery can occur due to many different causes, and your doctor will likely assess your risk...
When a baby dies in the womb, this is either a stillbirth or miscarriage, depending on when the death takes place during the course of a woman's pregnancy. According to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human...
Many women associate bleeding or spotting during pregnancy as a bad sign or as if something has gone wrong, but, according to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, this is not necessarily true. Spotting during pregnancy is...
Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease caused by an infection of the bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis. In the United States, nearly 4 million people are infected with chlamydia each year, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted...
Uterine cancer is a major problem in women's health. Learn about the different causes, symptoms, and treatments for cancer of the uterus in this video.
