Women's Health and Menopause Center
Pfizer announced yesterday that it will initiate a voluntary recall of 1 million packets of birth control pills. The birth control drug is known as Lo/Ovral-28 or generic norgestrel/ethinyl estradiol.
Most women think the hardest part of breast cancer is receiving the diagnosis and them undergoing treatment. But it’s the psychological, emotion and physical after effects that make take their biggest toll.
Some issues from breast cancer treatment may not manifest themselves until 10 or more years later. A recent study of breast cancer patients,
Read more: What’s Next? What Happens After Breast Cancer Treatment
Recent findings published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition outlined a study of nearly 1,400 women. Researchers found correlations between a woman’s intake of trans fats (which raise “bad” cholesterol) and the size of her baby.
The effect of trans fat seemed to have more of an effect when ingested during the second trimester.
According to the National Cancer Institute, endometrial cancer is both the most common type of uterine cancer, and the most common cancer of the female reproductive system. It accounts for nearly six percent of all cancers in women in the United States. This year alone, more than 43,000 new cases of this form of cancer were reported in the U.S.Endometrial cancer forms in the tissue lining of the uterus, and most tumors are adenocarcinomas,
HOUR Detroit Magazine recently released its 12th Annual Top Docs issue. WHMC’s own Dr. Jeffrey Obron, Dr. Andrew Markowitz and Dr. Brian Adelman [read more]
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