Women’s Health News
The act of breastfeeding is known to decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease in women, but it has been unclear how it decreases the risk and what risk factors it alters. A recent study s... Read more
Researchers examined data on lifestyle from the large (88,000 women) Nurses’ Health Study II. Healthy lifestyle criteria included being a nonsmoker, having a health weight (normal body mass... Read more
Pertussis (whooping cough) continues to be a problem in infants, children, and adults. It is often a life-threatening disease in infants. Over the past few years, there has been a progressiv... Read more