Women's Health (Gynecology And Obstetrics)

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Women's Health (choose a topic)
Health condition:	Comments:
Abnormal bleeding	there are different types of menstrual irregularities
Birth control (contraception)	controversial topic, but important to discuss
Breast problems	fibrocystic disease, breast cancer, nipple discharge
Gynecological cancer:	ovarian, cervical and uterine cancer are the most common
Infertility	causes for inability to have children are numerous for both sexes
Menopause	when the last period occurs
Other common conditions	vaginitis, VD (STD), eating disorders, postpartum depression, pelvic pain, weight gain, PMS
Painful periods	often due to endometriosis or adenomyosis
Pregnancy, labor and delivery	brief summary of important facts

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Introduction:

Women have general health concerns that they share with their male counterparts such as a need for healthy food intake, regular exercise, emotional well being and stability of life in general. However, there are very special needs that women have as a group. Many of these center around the ovarian hormone activity, which leads to periods and their abnormalities.

There are special concerns regarding contraception, venereal disease prevention, infertility, pregnancy, child bearing, breast diseases, gynecological diseases including the female type cancers. Here I am attempting to deal with these more female topics that affect women's health in particular. Where the topic has already been dealt with elsewhere in more detail, I am providing links (in blue and underlined) in the table above, which lead you directly to these other chapters. If you want to return to the original chapter, simply click on the blue back arrow in the left upper corner of your computer screen to return to that page again.

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References:

1. The Merck Manual, 7^th edition, by M. H. Beers et al., Whitehouse Station, N.J., 1999. Chapter 235.

2. B. Sears: "Zone perfect meals in minutes". Regan Books, Harper Collins, 1997.

3. Ryan: Kistner's Gynecology & Women's Health, 7th ed.,1999 Mosby, Inc.

4. The Merck Manual, 7^th edition, by M. H. Beers et al., Whitehouse Station, N.J., 1999. Chapter 245.

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18. Gabbe: Obstetrics - Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 3rd ed., 1996 Churchill Livingstone, Inc.

19. The Merck Manual, 7^th edition, by M. H. Beers et al., Whitehouse Station, N.J., 1999. Chapter 251.

20. The Merck Manual, 7^th edition, by M. H. Beers et al., Whitehouse Station, N.J., 1999. Chapter 250.

21. Ignaz P Semmelweiss: "Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers" ("Etiology, the Understanding and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever"). Vienna (Austria), 1861.

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