Most women see their OB-GYNs once a year, but because of the economy, more patients are turning to them for general medical advice.

According to new research, African-American women face a series of challenges in navigating education, career, marriage and child-bearing, dilemmas that often leave them single and childless even when they’d prefer marriage and family.

Even when doctors have successfully removed a breast cancer, there is a chance the cancer will recur. John Stewart, IV, M.D., Surgical Oncologist with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, says some factors associated with a higher risk of recurrence include: positive lymph nodes, a high grade tumor or estrogen receptor negative tumors.

1st Annual Women’s “Suddenly Single” Happy Hour & Market Fair gears up for a night of socializing, free food & drinks,  and even a “dunk the ex” dunking booth.

Women were less likely to receive aspirin, beta blockers or other potentially life saving procedures such as angioplasty within the first few hours of hospital arrival.

Women between the ages of 27 and 44 years old who smoke are twice as likely to develop PMS, according to a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The researchers found that smoking can alter levels of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, which can be linked to the development of PMS.

Now that the country is in a recession, some families barely are hanging on to their middle-class lives. Others have lost their grip. Parents say they worry most about the negative effects on their children.

Ann E. Dunwoody will be the first woman in the U.S. military to attain the rank of four-star general.

It could be a new way for women to enhance their love lives, and a group of Chicago area women is among the first in the nation to test it. Libigel is a testosterone based treatment, and if the trials are successful and Biosante Pharmaceuticals gets government approval, it would be the first FDA approved drug to boost desire in women.

For the first time since 1979, it appears South Carolina’s state Senate will have no women.

Bad news about money is taking its toll. A new survey finds Americans are feeling more stressed out and women are feeling it more than men. According to the American Psychological Association, some people are coping in ways guaranteed to hurt their health. 

A program that helps young pregnant girls deliver healthy babies and continue their education may be forced to end.

Women make up more than half of the nations voters and more than half of voters in South Carolina.

Recently, experts from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Healthy Environments and Communities, tested fish caught from where the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers converge. Some of the fish contained high amounts of pharmaceutical estrogen, mercury, selenium and arsenic.

Doctors warn that some eyelash enhancers contain compounds called prostaglandins, a family of chemicals used to treat glaucoma.