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Womenshealth.gov is a service of the Office on Women’s Health (OWH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to provide leadership to promote health equity for women and girls through sex/gender-specific approaches. The strategy OWH uses to achieve its mission and vision ...
Procedure that uses a special microscope (called a colposcope) to look into the vagina and to look very closely at the cervix.
Industry:Health care
Procedure where the baby is delivered through an abdominal incision. Also called cesarean delivery or cesarean birth.
Industry:Health care
Procedure where the baby is delivered through an abdominal incision. Also called cesarean delivery or cesarean birth.
Industry:Health care
Red and sometimes itchy bumps on the skin, usually caused by an allergic reaction to a drug or a food.
Industry:Health care
Removal of a small piece of tissue for testing or examination under a microscope.
Industry:Health care
Removal of part or all of a body part, except for organs in the body. It usually takes place during surgery in a hospital operating room. It is done because of injury to the body part or problems from diabetes, hardening of the arteries, or any other illness that impairs blood circulation. It is also done to prevent the spread of bone cancer. Many amputees are able to be fitted with an artificial limb.
Industry:Health care
Replaces the hormones that a woman's ovaries stop making at the time of menopause, easing symptoms like hot flashes and vaginal dryness. It involves using man-made estrogen alone or estrogen with progestin, often in the form of a pill or skin patch. MHT used to be called hormone replacement therapy, or HRT. (A recent, large study found that use of MHT poses some serious risks, such as increasing some women's risk for breast cancer, heart disease, stroke, and pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung). Women who choose to use MHT should use the lowest dose that helps for the shortest time needed. Talk with your doctor to find out if MHT is right for you and discuss other ways to relieve menopause symptoms.)
Industry:Health care
Serious medical illness that fills people's lives with anxiety and fear. Some anxiety disorders include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social phobia (or social anxiety disorder), specific phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder.
Industry:Health care
Sexual advances (like touching, grabbing) or sexual comments (that can be offensive and/or joking) that are not wanted or appropriate. This can happen in the workplace and a person can feel like they have no control over it. They may decide not to deal with it because they fear they will lose their job or not get a raise or promotion.
Industry:Health care
Sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry; also: the statutory crime of such a relationship.
Industry:Health care
