Women's health news

A recent study carried out in Japan has verified that lifestyle can be directly related to the intensity of period pain and the symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome. Cramps, body pain, and many other disturbing physical and emotional symptoms could be successfully self-managed by making appropriate changes.

Hysterectomy is the most frequently performed major surgery worldwide in women, after cesarean section. A recent study carried out by members of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona led by Dr. Francisco Carmona, Scientific Director of Women's CD, has evaluated sexual function after abdominal hysterectomy for benign pathologies.

The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona organizes, in the context of the Experience Exchange Week, two participatory sessions on endometriosis, with the aim of raising awareness among high school students about this chronic and inflammatory disease, presenting to patients the projects that are develop in the hospital around this disease and talk about the compromises and differences in the patient's experience around the different approaches to endometriosis.

Chaired by Dr. Francisco Carmona, Scientific and Surgery Director of the Women's CD Gynecological Center and Head of the Gynecology Service of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, ​​the 9th Annual Congress of the (SEUD) will be held in Abu Dhabi from 16 to 18 March 2023.

The Women's CD medical-scientific team, led by Dr. Francisco Carmona and Dr. Damian Dexeus, remain committed to endometriosis research, treatment, and outreach. Therefore, today March 14, World Endometriosis Day, we have proposed to share a selection of the most relevant current scientific news.

Modesty and taboos limit knowledge about the consequences of breast cancer in the sexual life of a very large number of women. Patients do not usually ask and professionals do not always inquire enough.

Fertility may improve after deep infiltrative endometriosis surgery, but which excision is more critical or which type of nodule has the most influence on fertility is still controversial.

Severe endometriosis negatively affects ovarian response, oocyte and embryo quality. However, fertilization rates among women with severe endometriosis, women with minimal or mild endometriosis, and women without endometriosis are similar, according to a new study published in JBRA Assisted Reproduction.

World Rare Disease Day is celebrated on the last day of February. The Women's CD medical-scientific team, led by Dr. Francisco Carmona and Dr. Damian Dexeus, has decided to focus on Rokitansky Syndrome, a uterine malformation with severe consequences that affects 1 in 4.500 women in the world. world.

New research by the QIMR Berghofer Institute for Medical Research has found that low-dose aspirin may improve survival from ovarian cancer.

One in five people (one in three women) feel distressed because they have lost interest in sex at some point or stage in their life. Kisspeptin, a natural hormone, can enhance sexual response in women and men with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.