A woman who had a successful fecal transplant to treat a bacterial infection in her intestines has experienced unexpected and rapid weight gain, causing doctors to consider the role of gut bacteria in metabolism and health.The case, reported in the journal Open Forum Infectious…

Women who smoke cigarettes are just as likely as men to develop potentially fatal aneurysms in the main artery leading from the heart, according to a recent study.Guidelines already recommend screening men over age 65 who have ever smoked for abdominal aortic aneurysm, a…

Older women often silently suffer from treatable urinary incontinence, researchers say.When doctors asked about urinary incontinence and offered to treat it, women were two to three times more likely to have a reduction in symptoms than when doctors ignored the condition until patients complained,…

Surprise births, once the stuff of urban legend, are now the stuff of occasional roundups of shocked new moms who had no clue they were expecting.Canada's Karolane Baillargeon is the latest addition to that club after heading to a Quebec hospital last week for…

About 1 in 8 women in the United States will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer by the age of 85—and it's probably safe to say that we will all know someone who's affected by this disease in some way. With stats like that, it's…

For children whose mothers had low supplemental iron and other risk factors, researchers at the University of California, Davis found a five-fold greater risk of autism.In a new study from the UC Davis MIND Institute, researchers examined the relationship between maternal iron intake and…

Older women who walk just four hours per week can dramatically reduce their risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests.In the study, researchers examined the activity levels of postmenopausal women within the past four years. They found that those who had engaged in…

More single U.S. women over the age of 35 are having children, even as the overall birth rates for unmarried women in the United States have dropped, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.There were 1.6 million births to unmarried women…

New research has found that the brains of children with autism are relatively inflexible at switching from rest to task and this inflexibility is correlated with behaviors characteristic of the disorder.“One of the core clinical symptoms of autism is restricted interests and repetitive behaviors,”…

A gel form of the drug tamoxifen may be effective in preventing breast cancer, Medical News Today reported.Tamoxifen is a hormone drug that binds to estrogen receptors, inhibiting cell division. For women at high-risk for breast cancer, the drug is prescribed orally as a…