The global pessary market is set to experience remarkable expansion, driven by increased awareness of incontinence and pelvic floor disorders. According to a recent report by Future Market Insights, ...

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Perform 10 times, rest, then repeat. Next steps: The vagina and pelvic organs can be supported with a silicon disc known as a pessary, which you place into the vagina and can remove during sleep ...

Writer Lindsey Dawson at the West Auckland house where the gruesome death of a man from strychnine poisoning in 1892 led to a sensational murder trial. Photo / Dean Purcell Was it murder?

For decades, women's health has been chronically underfunded and under-researched. The consequences of this neglect are widespread and deeply damaging. Millions of women live with avoidable pain ...

A COMMON over-the counter medication that's been available for decades and is taken by millions worldwide has been singled out for its possible cancer risk. Phenazopyridine, typically sold under ...

At my first HRT review, I shared these symptoms, and I was prescribed oestrogen pessaries – a low-dose oestrogen tablet that’s inserted into the vagina with a tampon-like applicator twice per ...

For decades, women’s health has been chronically underfunded and under-researched. The consequences of this neglect are widespread and deeply damaging. Millions of women live with avoidable pain, ...

This led to GPs in many areas collectively serving notice on some local enhanced services or shared care arrangements, such as PSA monitoring, phlebotomy, ring pessaries and ECGs. LMCs argued that ...

Be honest, how effective do you consider crocodile dung would be as a contraceptive? It's one of the less bizarre items in a new Radio 4 programme on the history of family planning. Some of the ...

Pessary. To help the uterus stay propped forward, your doctor may insert a plastic device. This could be done temporarily or permanently. The drawback of using a pessary is that there may be a ...