Women’s health

Women’s health

Health issues and subjects specific to women, such as menstruation, contraception, maternal health, child birth, menopause and breast cancer. These issues are often related to the female human anatomy such as female genitalia and breasts or to conditions caused by hormones specific to females.

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Chiropractic

Health care; Women’s health

An alternative medical system that takes a different approach from standard medicine in treating health problems. The goal of chiropractic therapy is to normalise this relationship between your ...

Preeclampsia

Health care; Women’s health

Also known as toxemia, it is a syndrome occurring in a pregnant woman after her 20th week of pregnancy that causes high blood pressure and problems with the kidneys and other organs. Symptoms include ...

Local analgesic

Health care; Women’s health

An analgesic is a drug that relieves pain. Pain-relieving drugs can be given to a woman during labour and delivery locally through a needle inserted into a muscle (intra-muscular) or under the skin ...

Bowels

Health care; Women’s health

Also known as the intestine, which is a long tube-like organ in the human body that completes digestion or the breaking down of food. The small bowel is the small intestine and the large bowel is the ...

Tumour

Health care; Women’s health

An abnormal mass of tissue that results when cells divide more than they should or do not die when they should. tumours can be benign or malignant. Benign tumours are not cancer. Malignant tumours ...