Women's Health

The Pharmacy Times® Women’s Health resource center provides clinical news and articles, pertaining to women’s wellness, nutrition, fitness, weight loss, and answers to other potentially more intimate questions.

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Study: Increasing Exercise During First Trimester May Reduce Gestational Diabetes Risk

The analysis found that at least 38 minutes of moderate intensity exercise each day was associated with the lower risk, which is a little more than the current recommendations of at least 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week.

Treating Ductal Carcinoma In Situ with Surgery, Radiotherapy Offers Better Protection Than Surgery Alone

Although only a proportion of DCIS cases will progress into invasive cancer, the treatments available for DCIS are similar to treatments for invasive breast cancers.

Study Identifies Determinants of Sexual Dysfunction During Menopause

Several things are important to maintain a woman’s sexual function including positive sexual experiences, attitudes about sex, body image, and relationship intimacy.

Study: Transfusions With Higher Red Blood Cell Levels Do Not Improve Preterm Baby Outcomes

The study, which appears in The New England Journal of Medicine, is the largest to-date to compare thresholds for blood transfusions in premature babies, according to the press release.

Study: Oregon’s Medicaid Expansion Improved Birth Outcomes, Access to Prenatal Care

Researchers said providing women access to health care early in their lives leads to better overall health status, healthier pregnancies, and healthier births.

Study: Women Have Increased Risk of Death, Heart Failure Following Heart Attack

Women have a 20% higher risk than men of dying or facing heart failure, and they typically experience NSTEMI heart attacks.

Why Pharmacists Have Begun Embracing Functional Medicine

Functional medicine has grown in popularity throughout the years because of how it helped many patients live a better quality of life.

Study: Giving Birth Affects Physical Aging Process

Individuals who reported zero or fewer live births and those who reported many live births had markers of quicker aging than those who reported 3 or 4 births.

Body Mass, Blood Pressure Relate to Pre-Eclampsia

Genetic predisposition is only part of the pre-eclampsia risk.

Three Challenges in Medication Adherence That Can Be Overcome by Pharmacists

Medication nonadherence results in greater health care spending and poorer patient health outcomes.

Study: Omitting Radiation Therapy After Breast Conserving Surgery May Not Impact 10-Year Survival Rates

Although postoperative radiation therapy affected the risk of local recurrence of breast cancer, it did not significantly impact certain other clinical outcomes, including distant metastasis and recurrence in the opposite breast.

Study: Breast Cancer Survivors Less Likely to Become Pregnant, But Typically Have Healthy Children

The higher risk of delivery and fetal complications suggests that physicians should more closely monitor pregnant breast cancer survivors.

The Pharmacy Times® Women’s Health resource center page serves as a host for information about the most intricate questions surrounding women’s health issues.

Women have unique health issues, and some conditions and diseases that can be had by both sexes have the potential to impact women differently. Additionally, women should be keeping tabs on pregnancy, menopause, and conditions of the female organs; pharmacists can help. This resource center provides the latest clinical information, recent updates from a robust pipeline of novel therapies, and the newest data from all phases of clinical trials and studies in the space, allowing pharmacists to have an expert level of understanding of how to meet their customers’ needs.