PMS (premenstrual syndrome) is a cyclic recurrence of a group of symptoms that happen a week or two before a woman's period. In over 75% of the cases, too much estrogen relative to progesterone contributes to a range of PMS symptoms including: breast tenderness, mood...
Difficulty sleeping is one of the more common symptoms during the hormonal transition of peri-menopause and menopause. Here's what the research has to say about how hormones affect sleep. First off, progesterone. This hormone is responsible for our deepest sleep cycle, non-REM sleep, primarily by affecting...
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age and affects between 10% and 21% of women depending on the diag- nostic criteria used and population assessed. The condition has many short-term and long-term complications, including repro- ductive (such as, amenorrhoea, anovulation, hirsutism,...
Among different types of cancer, breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in developing countries and the second leading cause of cancer mortality in the developed world. Statistics from 2012 show that, in the US, 224,147 women and 2,125 men received...
As women age, memory loss is a nearly universal experience, and more significant for some than others. Misplacing papers and mail, searching for lost keys, forgetting names of persons, movies, and books are just a few of the examples I hear quite often in my practice....