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Treating female pattern hair loss
Noticeable hair loss can be deeply distressing. Here are some medical treatments that may help.
About one-third of women experience hair loss (alopecia) at some time in their lives; among postmenopausal women, as many as two-thirds suffer hair thinning or bald spots. Hair loss often has a greater impact on women than on men, because it's less socially acceptable for them. Alopecia can severely affect a woman's emotional well-being and quality of life.
The main type of hair loss in both sexes — and the subject of this article — is androgenetic alopecia, or female (or male) pattern hair ...
Recognizing and avoiding tick-borne illness
Most tick bites won't make you sick, but the ones that do can be serious.
June is here and the bugs are out — in yards and gardens, at the beach, and along hiking trails and pathways. Most are just an annoyance, but some are vectors, or transmitters, of disease. In the United States, the chief culprits are ticks — in particular, the deer tick (also called the black-legged tick), which can carry and transmit the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease. Considered somewhat rare in the mid-1980s, Lyme disease is now the most common vector-borne illness in the United ... Read More »In the journals: Scientists discover how shift work may threaten health
People who work night shifts experience a misalignment in their circadian rhythms that can result in higher risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
In the journals: Triple-negative breast cancer rate is triply high in black women
Researchers found that a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer is three times as likely to occur in black women as in white women.
By the way, doctor: What can I do about strep B vaginitis?
Q. I'm 61 and recently began to have a vaginal discharge. It's not itchy, but sexual intercourse is painful. My doctor diagnosed it as strep B vaginitis and prescribed amoxicillin, which helped. But the discharge returned within a week. What do you recommend?
A. Some vaginal discharge is normal. It helps to protect against vaginal infections and provides lubrication for the vaginal tissues. The discharge consists of vaginal skin cells, mucus, and fluid, as well as Candida (a type of yeast) and vaginal flora, the bacteria normally found in the vagina. Strep B, or group B streptococcus, is one possible ...
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