New evidence suggests that the early loss of naturally produced oestrogen - a side-effect of a hysterectomy - may increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease.
While medical authorities are looking at improving competence levels of surgeons performing laparoscopic "keyhole" surgery, new evidence has emerged to show some of the techniques themselves are a ...
Hysterectomy is among the most common major surgical procedures performed in our hospitals. In the UK alone, around 20 per cent of all women have had a hysterectomy by the time they've reached the age of 55, while 600,000 procedures are performed in...
Most women who have the lining of their womb removed by having endometrial resection (ER) will end up having a full hysterectomy, anyway. About 87 per cent complain afterwards of continual vaginal ...
Doctors have turned period problems into a 'syndrome', requiring an armament of potent drugs, when many symptoms are either normal or the result of nutritional deficiencies. ...
Two support groups have been set up by women who claim to have been dreadfully damaged by medical procedures. ...
Q:I am 34 and married. As yet my husband and I have no children. I went to my GP recently, complaining of irregular periods. He suspected that I was pregnant and sent me to a consultant gynaeco ...
The latest medical procedure for women with abnormally heavy periods being touted as a major gynaecological advance carries a number of possible risks, including hysterectomy, increased period pai ...
Reader's Corner
You heard it here first. As we predicted in an previous WDDTY (Vol 2 No 5), doctors, formerly enthusing a few months ago about the gynaecological breakthrough, endometrial resection, are now issu ...