Understand the role of food and nutrition in fertility and pregnancy, and help your patients use foods and nutrition to assist in conceiving and achieving good pregnancy outcomes. In the free online course "Food as Medicine: Fertility and Pregnancy", you will explore the latest evidence surrounding the role of nutrition on fertility and pregnancy outcomes. You will focus on two … [Read more...]
Learn What You Can Do To Improve Maternal Healthcare with this Free Course
Imagine a woman in a remote village, perhaps in Africa or South Asia. She’s giving birth at home with a relative. Without access to drugs or transport, she could die. While maternal deaths have nearly halved in the past 25 years worldwide, thanks to the increased use of maternity services, progress has not been universal. The online course "The Lancet Maternal Health Series: … [Read more...]
Sex Drive Too High or Too Low? The Libido Guide for Women
Do you feel that your sex drive is too high or too low? Sex drive is influenced by biological factors (including sex hormones), psychological factors (like personality and stress) and social factors (such as work and family). Sex drive can also be affected by medical conditions, medications, lifestyle and relationship issues, and age. Libido is a person's overall sexual … [Read more...]
What are the Mastitis Symptoms?
There are a lot of health problems that only affect women. Some of the most common conditions are those that affect the mammary glands of females. The mammary glands or the breasts are an important part of a woman’s body. These serve as a passage for milk of lactating women, as well as a place for the production of certain female hormones. However, the breasts are also at high … [Read more...]
What is the Recovery Time for a Hysterectomy?
What is hysterectomy? Hysterectomy is defined as an operation that deals with the removal of the woman’s uterus. A woman is usually subjected to such surgical procedure due to several reasons which include the presence of uterine fibroids that causes pain, uterine prolapse or the sliding of the uterus to the vaginal canal, cancer of the uterus, cervix or ovaries, endometriosis … [Read more...]