The phases of the menstrual cycle are important to understand both for women who are looking to get pregnant as well as for women wanting to prevent a pregnancy. Knowing about one’s menstrual cycle means that a woman knows when she is most fertile, and she is also able to predict when her next period [...]
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Women are known for their strong emotions when dealing with relationships, struggles, sickness or any other ups and downs of life. Being sad, upset or crying is an absolutely normal reaction of any person towards any unfortunate event taking place in their life. Depression is when the feeling of sadness takes over the mind with [...]
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Urinary retention is also known as ischuria – a condition that causes improper urination or the inability to urinate. There may be intermittent flow, the feeling of incomplete voiding, straining, delay in start of urination and other symptoms of this condition. In most of the cases, it warrants medical attention since it can develop further [...]
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Having sex during menstruation is not a forbidden act scientifically, but as women are made to believe religiously and culturally, that menstrual blood is evil and impure, they usually tend to avoid even discussing about their periods in open. Women usually try to hide and contain menstrual blood. And since sex is an intimate act [...]
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Simply put, cancer which is detected before it starts to cause symptoms is known as early detection. Cancer can be detected early by using screens or tests. When breast cancer symptoms start to manifest themselves, the cancer would usually have spread, or become large. Early detection of breast cancer means that the survival chances as [...]
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Opting for an abortion is a decision a woman can take, considering whether she is ready or not for the birth of a child. Though, it is a personal decision, time and again the voice of the woman who wants to go for an abortion is suppressed not only by the father of the child, [...]
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In these times of rising infertility levels, more and more couples are seeking the help of assisted reproductive technology to have children. In recent times, more and more babies are being born with the help of assisted reproductive procedures such as in vitro fertilization and gamete intrafallopian transfer. Another type of assisted reproduction is zygote [...]
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A mild odor of vagina is expected and normal, whereas strong, unpleasant odor could be a sign of bacterial, fungal or yeast infection, pH imbalance or presence of STD. Vaginal odor can be unpleasant, embarrassing experience for women, who may withdraw from intimate relationships. Lack of proper hygiene is one of the main causes of [...]
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For most practical purposes, a woman’s menstrual cycle is assumed to be 28 days long and the duration of menstruation is between 3 and 5 days. This is to say that when we take an average of multiple menstrual cycles, we would get a number in the region of 28 days. However this is not to [...]
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More than 30% of women in the age group of 18- 50 suffer from low sex drive due to hormonal imbalance, stress, relationship issues and many other problems. In medical terms, low sex drive in women is known as HSDD or hypoactive sexual desire disorder. There is no easy treatment available for HSDD, since the [...]
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