Until the discovery of penicillin, syphilis was the best known and more feared of the STDs. The word still makes most people flinch. When I was a small child there was an interesting poster on the wall of the public toilet in the shopping street of our town. It showed black outlines of a woman [...]

Stress incontinence can be helped, and in many cases corrected, by pelvic-floor exercises, which strengthen the sphincter muscles that surround the urethra. These are sometimes called PC exercises in honour of the most important of these muscles, the pubo-coccygeus. By strengthening the pelvic floor with PC exercises, surgery can be avoided in up to 70 [...]

This is very important, as self-consciousness about unwanted hair causes much unhappiness. In many instances of simple hirsutism, cosmetic treatment alone may be sufficient, or it may be combined with medical treatment. Several methods are used, either alone or in combination. Bleaching This makes fine dark hairs less conspicuous. Proprietary creams are available or a [...]

The best treatment for any health disorder is to eliminate its cause. With PMS we don’t know the cause, so treatment can only be ‘try it and see’, or measures to improve general health and reduce stress. A baffling fact about many drag treatments for PMS is that if they are tested against a placebo, [...]

Are there other side-effects of HRT? The most common side-effect (not a health risk but not acceptable to all women) is bleeding from the vagina, like a period (usually shorter and lighter), after each course of progestogen supplements. If you don’t want this, ask your doctor about ways of taking the progestogen to eliminate bleeding [...]