For some cases of bacterial vaginosis, treatment should include a package deal, doctors now say. The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) updated its clinical guidance Friday to fit with recent data indicating that treatment for recurring bacterial vaginosis (BV) in women is significantly more effective if their male partners are also treated at the same time—with both an …
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For a month in 2020, Liliana Castaneda, then 14, bled every day. While she originally thought it was her first period, she soon became worried when the bleeding became heavier and wouldn’t stop. She’d become anemic “because I had been bleeding,” Castaneda, 19, from Chicago, tells TODAY.com. “I had no energy.” After experiencing heavy bleeding and feeling exhausted, Liliana Casteneda …
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“It really hurts to have sex,” I told my doctor. “Like, a lot.” I was sitting in a hospital gown on the exam table at my family practitioner’s office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was the same table where I’d sat through both of my pregnancies and where, three years earlier, I’d been diagnosed with breast cancer. “I’m so …
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