October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Please see the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIP7rJbmuvI BREAST CANCER EARLY DETECTION
Please see the Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIP7rJbmuvI BREAST CANCER EARLY DETECTION
The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It’s the child that’s remembered. Words cannot express the joy of new life. SYNOPSIS Labor pain can be excruciating. Many women have low pain thresholds and are unable to bear such pain. For them, painless delivery may be a need. In [...]
Origin of Yoga Yoga originated during the Indus Valley (modern-day India and Pakistan) Civilization 5000 years ago. The earliest reference to Yoga was in Rigveda composed 3000-3500 years ago. In the Vedas, Yoga was a means to harness the mind and achieve spiritual enlightenment. Yoga as a systematic [...]
Since 2014, May 28 is marked as the World Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD). The day was chosen because May is the fifth month and women menstruate an average of five days every month; and twenty-eight is the average length of menstrual cycle. Women and girls face challenges and [...]
Every pregnancy deserves a healthy outcome. Educate, advocate, eradicate. Preeclampsia (PE) is a complication of pregnancy. Its main symptoms are high blood pressure, and high levels of protein in urine. If untreated, it can be fatal to mother and to baby. In India, 5-15% pregnant women have [...]
Beauty is in the skin! Healthy skin is not perfect skin. It may have birth marks, visible pores, occasional blemishes and fine lines and wrinkles. But healthy skin is even in color not red or inflamed, neither too oily nor too dry, and smooth with few breaks or [...]
Cervical cancer is curable. Yet, in 2020, globally 342,000 women died from cervical cancer. Twenty-one percent of these deaths, 72,000, were in India where it is the second biggest killer cancer in women. In India, one woman dies every seven minutes from cervical cancer. Most of these deaths [...]
Diabetes teaches you discipline. Diabetes is incurable. But given the tools, a diabetic can manage the symptoms Women and men are affected differently by diabetes. Diabetic women are at two-time higher risk of heart disease than diabetic men. And have fifty-eight percent greater risk of death from coronary [...]
“Marathoning. The triumph of desire over reason.” The 40-km run that the Greek courier Philippides made from the battleground of Marathon to Athens to announce the defeat of the invading Persians remained a traditional story for twenty-four hundred years. That is, till it was made into a men’s [...]
Keep moving. to keep arthritis at bay. – Donna Mills More women than men are affected by arthritis. Worldwide, 18.0% women and 9.6% men above age 60 have symptomatic osteoarthritis (OA). Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is four to five times higher in women than in men at age below [...]
Stress, anxiety, depression is caused when we are living to please others – Paulo Coelho Mental health problems are more frequent in women than in men. Prevalence, influencing and risk factors, symptomatology, and course of the disorder is different in women than in men. For example, mood or [...]
September is PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome) awareness month. PCOS affects women of reproductive age (15-49 years). Worldwide, it affects 4%–20% (8-40 crore) of women. In India, it affects 3.7% to 22.5% (1.3-7.9 crore) of women. PCOS is not yet recognized as an important health problem. But prevention and [...]