1 hour ago How motorcycling helped menopausal woman overcome anxiety in her 50s

Claire Jones, 52, is now helping other women going through the menopause to regain their confidence through her innovative method

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8 h. ago How a bug could bring your breast cancer back: Leading professor reveals chilling link between the flu and women in remission

For most people, becoming infected with a respiratory virus usually leads to unpleasant but temporary symptoms. But for some cancer survivors these viruses may be more horrifying.

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10 h. ago Black women with fibroids face delays and poor care in the UK, says report

Exclusive: All-party parliamentary group on black health found 27% not offered any treatment after diagnosisBlack women in the UK who experience symptoms caused by fibroids are facing delays, poor care and dismissal by healthcare professionals according to a parliamentary report.Published by the all-party parliamentary group on black health, the report included a survey of more than 500 women regarding their experience of uterine fibroids, with more than 70% of respondents being Black British. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Men need twice as much exercise as women to lower heart disease risk, study finds

Researchers suggest ‘sex-specific strategies’ after analysis of cardiovascular health improvementsMen may need to exercise twice as much as women to achieve the same reduction in coronary heart disease risk, according to researchers, who say healthy living guidelines should take account of the sex differences.Scientists analysed physical activity records from more than 80,000 people and found that the risk of heart disease fell 30% in women who clocked up 250 minutes of exercise each week. In contrast, men needed to reach 530 minutes, or nearly nine hours, a week to see the same effect. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago ‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?

Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosisSomewhere in the US a woman on her period pulled out her dripping, saturated tampon. But instead of wrapping it in toilet paper and tossing it into a bin, she put the tampon in a special plastic sample container, screwed the lid on tight and mailed it to an address in Oakland, California.The address was that of NextGen Jane (NGJ), a Bay Area-based startup founded in 2014. And now Julia Carr, NGJ’s clinical research coordinator, stands in the company’s lab under a fume hood happily decanting a mixture of the woman’s blood and a preservation solution into a test tube. She will go on to pipette out small amounts to freeze and store for later analysis. NGJ has obtained about 2,500 menstrual blood samples this way – from women volunteering to send in their used tampons – for its research. Tha...

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39 h. ago ‘Not a luxury, a necessity‘: how aid cuts to birth control harm Senegal’s women

‘The women here are warriors,’ says a midwife in Joal, and contraception is key to their health and life chances. But now UK and US aid cuts threaten to undo years of progressThe fishing quay on the beach at Joal is usually so crowded with women dealing with the day’s catch that you can barely glimpse the sea. But today it is quiet, just an expanse of broken shells and plastic bags that leads down to the water’s edge.Last night, as is increasingly common here on Senegal’s coast, there was a storm and heavy rain so the men could not go to sea safely in their open wooden fishing boats, known as pirogues. Many houses were flooded, so women stayed at home for the day, baling out bedrooms and dealing with the aftermath. Times are tough. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Denise Welch says Coronation Street was 'incredibly hard' as she makes health admission

Loose Women star Denise Welch has been open about her health battles and how she struggled with the pressures of working on Coronation Street

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5 d. ago Bella Hadid reveals she got her period the day she walked in Victoria's Secret catwalk show as she addresses health concerns

Bella Hadid has revealed she got her period the morning she walked the Victoria Secret Fashion Show after she sparked health concerns on the runway in massive 50-pound wings.

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5 d. ago GPs set to ask all women who attend NHS health check if they could be menopausal in major win for Daily Mail campaign

Menopause questions will be included in NHS health checks for the first time, officials have announced, in a landmark step forward for women's healthcare.

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5 d. ago Millions of women to benefit from major NHS menopause update after ‘suffering in silence for too long’

MENOPAUSE help will be added to NHS health checks for over-40s for the first time. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “Women have suffered in silence for too long.” Everyone aged 40 to 79 can get five-yearly health checks free on the NHS to spot signs of ill health and catch diseases early. Medics will now...

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5 d. ago Men’s brains shrink faster than women’s, new Alzheimer’s research shows

The lifetime risk for Alzheimer’s disease at age 45 is one in five for women compared to one in 10 for men, according to the Alzheimer’s Association

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6 d. ago Dozens of women claim using Always sanitary towels have left them with agonising intimate burns

Always says safety is their 'top priority' after dozens of women claimed online that using their sanitary towels left them with painful, agonising burns.

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6 d. ago Experts reveal how many steps women should walk to ‘cut risk of early death by 26%

Benchmarks such as needing to walk 10,000 steps every single day are wrong, researchers said

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6 d. ago Popular hair products associated with multiple cancers... including one of the deadliest

Researchers from Emory University in Georgia analyzed data from a long-term health study involving more than 50,000 US women.

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7 d. ago Loose Women's Ruth Langsford shares health update and is 'willing to try anything'

Ruth's health update follows shortly after she also opened up about her mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease

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7 d. ago New study says women should take HRT for 10 years before menopause

Researchers found a 60% lower risk of developing breast cancer, having a heart attack, or having a stroke

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7 d. ago Starting HRT years before menopause could cut health risks for women – study

Researchers said further studies were needed but they hoped the findings can ‘start a larger conversation about prevention in women’s health’.

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8 d. ago Why women are more likely to experience this debilitating condition

Migraine is a complex disorder that causes the brain to process sensory information abnormally

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8 d. ago I've spent years studying PMS. Everything you've been told is wrong. This is the truth about why women's behaviour changes before their period

If men felt the way we do two weeks of the month, scientists would be working around the clock to solve their suffering. But for women it's assumed as normal, simply our fate.

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8 d. ago Millions exploited by ‘menopause gold rush’ amid lack of reliable information, say UK experts

Women’s health academics at UCL call for national education programme to combat misinformation and unregulated adviceMillions of women are being exploited by a “menopause gold rush” as companies, celebrities and influencers take advantage of a “dearth” of reliable information on the issue, experts have said.Healthcare companies and content creators saw menopause as a “lucrative market” and were trying to profit from gaps in public knowledge, women’s health academics at UCL said. Continue reading...

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