A 22-year-old is urging others to “advocate for your body” after a ruptured ovarian cyst nearly claimed her life. Daisy ...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age, affecting approximately 6% of this population. [1] The clinical issues in PCOS relate to ...

Bindi Irwin detailed the chocolate cyst and over 30 lesions that had caused her a decade of pain before her endometriosis ...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder commonly diagnosed in women of childbearing age. While PCOS isn’t an outwardly apparent condition, it can wreak havoc on physical and emotional ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta have found that women who carry a particular gene variant and have had their ...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinopathy that affects women. PCOS is also a leading cause of infertility. Women with PCOS may present with obesity, amenorrhea ...

Hyperandrogenism is the key pathologic feature of polycystic ovary syndrome, but diagnostic assessment of androgen excess in women is problematic, and the biochemical assays in routine clinical ...

“While ovulation (the actual and physical rupture and release of an egg from an ovary) is important, it is the consequence of this event which is key – namely, the role ovulation plays in ...

A global study revealed that young breast cancer patients with high risk BRCA mutations can have their risk of cancer ...

The use of combined oral contraceptives may delay the onset of hidradenitis suppurativa among women and may improve disease severity.

Diamanti-Kandarakis E and Panidis D (2007) Unravelling the phenotypic map of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): a prospective study of 634 women with PCOS. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 67: 735–742 The ...