Gloria Byrd, a breast cancer survivor for eight years, says she has gotten the longevity her mother and maternal grandmother never lived long enough to enjoy.
“I am living on borrowed time,” Byrd said, but not because of her earlier brush with breast cancer.
Chemoprevention of cancer is the reduction of cancer risk before cancer has been detected. Chemoprevention is a new and promising approach to lowering the toll of breast cancer, and work in this area is proceeding in preventing other types of cancer, as well.
Estrogen and oral contraceptives have a significant impact on the metabolism of many drugs.
At peak maturity, women have less bone mass than men do.
Women experience accelerated bone loss after menopause.
For years, the notion of women’s health was pretty much limited to the care and maintenance our reproductive system. The way medical scientists saw it, the only things that separated us from the men and the boys were ovaries, breasts, a uterus and a vagina.
In considering VBAC, it is important to determine the specific reason for the previous c-section(s). Any factors that were exclusive to the prior pregnancy and are variable, such as a prolapsed umbilical cord, some active infections in the mother, or a breech presentation have little bearing on the decision in the current pregnancy. (more…)
The phrase “once a cesarean , always a cesarean” was at one time a given in the obstetrical community. Ironically, the man who uttered those words, Dr. Edwin Craigin, a New York obstetrician, intended in his 1916 speech to dissuade his colleagues from performing a cesarean if it was possible to avoid the procedure. (more…)
Steve and I had this weird fight the other night. It was weird because it was about something I never knew I cared about, or even really had an opinion on.
A kind person had given us a hand-me-down of a little onesie, cream colored with a pattern of tiny blue trucks. I deemed it inappropriate for our little angel girl and put it in the giveaway pile. Steve wanted to know what was wrong with the offensive article. My answer? Simply too masculine.
Steve was quietly outraged. Does this mean, he asked, that you’re planning to give in to all kinds of gender stereotyping? (more…)
