Young girls are beginning their period at an increasingly earlier age. This trend to rapid maturity may also lead to premature conditions formerly associated with aging.

After finished with childbearing and proceeding to raising children, women have the freedom to possibly imbibe after a day of work or child rearing. This is probably okay for their golden years health.

The more that is understood about newborn birth defects, the clearer it is that a mom-to-be really has a great deal of control over her future baby's health.

Of course, one of the goals in pregnancy is to avoid or lessen in utero exposure to drugs. Maternal asthma is a tough condition to control while minimizing medicines.

Menopause and its hormonal changes can cause many symptoms including hot flashes, sleeplessness and night sweats. Menopause isn't causal, however in heart attacks.

Avoiding medicine unless absolutely necessary is usually advised by doctors when a woman is trying to conceive or in her first trimester. A new study validates that policy.

Most expecting moms are willing to do almost anything to ensure delivering a healthy baby. What if environmental factors are fighting against her desire?

The younger a smoker is that decides to quit, obviously the better for their health. Women in their golden years can receive immediate benefits from quitting.

Very few things are reported to improve with increased weight and advancing age, but hot flashes may be one of them.

A woman going through menopause often tweaks her diet in little ways to stave off symptoms. Less sodas and coffee are some of the tricks of the trade. Is adding soy okay?