Healthy articles

What exactly is that infamous pelvic floor, and will you have problems with it after pregnancy and birth? How often do pelvic floor problems happen, and what are the risk factors?

Two Swedish women became the first to receive a uterus transplant from very unique donors their own mothers on September 15 and 16. One of the women was born without a uterus, wile the other lost hers during a battle with cervical cancer.

There are so many different fertility medications out there that it is difficult to know what purpose they all serve. What are gonadotropins, and what are they used for?

Let's face it lots of pregnant women feel a little bit like a living time bomb, with will go off at some point at the end of their third trimester. Labor and delivery is something you are probably not looking forward to.

Hemorrhoids. They are not the kind of thing you even really want to think about. Yet, hemorrhoids are are quite a common side effect of pregnancy. Why, and what can you do about them?

Are you thinking of having your older kid(s) attend the birth of their new brother or sister? Here is some food for thought.

One of the latest uses of mammogram is the detection of calcium deposits in the plaques that build up in the blood vessels supplying the breast. In this way, mammogram helps assess and stratify the risk of heart diseases in women.

Using public toilets may leave you wondering about other people's hygiene habits, but the chances of picking up an infection are low.

It's hard enough to keep fit when you work at home. But what do you do if the thought of getting up an hour early to go for a run fills you with dread? Here, we look at easy ways to keep fit and healthy if you work at home and hate exercise.

Could a cat's soft fur or a dog's happy wagging tail improve our health? It could. Here we examine the many ways our pets improve our health.