Today marks the start of Sexual Health Week. Dr Naveen Puri, Associate Clinical Director at Bupa Health Clinics comments on recent Bupa UK research on sexual health based on internal Google search habits July 2021 – June 2022. Bupa research reveals three quarters of over 55s have never had a sexual health check. Alongside this, […]
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Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month: Survival rates will be negatively impacted with only 9% of women considering gynaecological health an important health condition, This Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month (1-30 September 2021), new research by leading high street healthcare retailer Superdrug reveals the worrying lack of knowledge around the importance of gynaecological health and how to recognise […]
It wasn’t that long ago that any mention of the vagina was considered taboo. Today, there have been plays extolling it, and national newspapers devote breathless pages to the subject, but there is still a squeamishness which surrounds female genitalia. It would be a great step forward if women themselves were better acquainted with female […]
I was recently at our first ever comedy night, Gynaecomedy and let me tell you, there is nothing more empowering that seeing 300 women and men chanting the word ‘vagina’. Sadly, away from this brilliant night, gynaecological health is still often a no-go conversation zone for many. It concerns me that a stigma is still […]
Obstetric fistulas are injuries that most often occur during childbirth, when a baby gets stuck in the birth canal, causing a hole to develop between the mother’s vagina, and her bladder or rectum. Faeces or urine leak from the fistula constantly, meaning many women with these injuries are shunned by their families and communities. The […]
Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder and is a common type of urinary tract infection. Others UTIs include acute pyelonephritis, which affects the kidneys and can lead to loin pain and high fever, and urethritis, which is inflammation of the tube that carries urine from the bladder outside the body. ‘Cystitis, which is caused […]