Mammography screening refers to the routine practice of breast evaluation by "x-ray" in women who have no apparent symptoms of breast cancer. Mammography screening seeks to detect breast cancer at early stages of development, resulting in more treatment options. Treatment of early stage breast cancer is not only more effective but potentially less disfiguring and toxic.

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For many women of the baby boomer generation (people born from 1946-1964) "the change" is happening—menopause. Menopause is one of the major transitions in a woman's life, as was menstruation, a first sexual experience, and the birth of a child. While often experienced as a time of renewed freedom and a completely natural life cycle stage, the transition to menopause does not usually pass unnoticed. The changes that happen during perimenopause (the period of transition leading to menopause) can be quite dramatic for many women. more..

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For a decade around the world, several million women have used a pill to end pregnancy in its earliest weeks. Now mifepristone has crossed US borders. Also known as RU-486 or the "French abortion pill," the drug should be ready for widespread use in the US by 2000. Like all abortion methods, mifepristone has been the subject of controversy, in part because it promises to make abortion even safer, more effective and more accessible.more..