His and Her Health

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Written by Our Bodies' Ourselves (http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/default.asp), a nonprofit women's health and advocacy organization.

The folks who have provided readers with indispensable information on women's health and sexuality now bring the same knowledge and perspective to our new book on menopause:

"Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause is distinctive among current books on menopause in its rejection of the medicalization of women's natural life transitions; its evenhanded consideration of all treatment options, whether "conventional" or "alternative"; and its focus on understanding individual women's health in social and political context. While emphasizing that menopause is a natural process, not a disease to be treated, and that most women have a relatively easy time with the transition, this book does not deny the real challenges that some women face. Rather, it sifts through the evidence, offers illustrative personal narratives, and provides the best information available to help women make educated health care decisions. "

Menopause is the life change that all women will eventually experience as they reach their golden age. Learn what to expect and how your body will change.

Incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine and is a common problem in women. It is unfortunately one of the "secret problems" that women do not talk about because it is embarrassing and many think that the problem cannot be solved. Fortunately, the vast majority of women with incontinence can be successfully treated and many, cured.

One of the greatest mysteries of life is what constitutes a woman's sexual satisfaction. This book is about solving that mystery. It's about making sexual Nirvana an achievable goal, and unlocking the secrets to extraordinary lovemaking.

Virtually Everything You Need to Know, Want to Know or Have to Know. Knowledge and treatment of female sexual dysfunction is at the same point now where male erectile dysfunction studies and treatment was in 1975, but is rapidly closing the gap. With the advent of Viagra in 1998 treatments for male dysfunction have been utilized for females with certain types of sexual dysfunction.

Women, are you suffering from anxiety? Do you find yourself so full of worries throughout the day that you can't concentrate? Do you always fear that something bad will happen to someone you love? Do you consider yourself a "worrier"?

Every Spinal Cord Injury is unique depending on level and completeness of injury. Accompanying other functional changes resulting from SCI may be changes in sexual functioning. Some type of change in sexual function (ability to attain or maintain an erection, to lubricate, to ejaculation, to orgasm, to feel sensations in the genitals) is experienced by roughly 80-90 percent of people with SCI.

Research programs are underway at the California Institute for Continence at Tower Urology to find more effective treatments to correct urinary incontinence (loss of bladder control) especially in women. These research programs have been formally approved by an institutional review board and follow strict guidelines as to how the research is performed.

The most common urinary tract problem that urologists see in their offices are women with frequency of urination and the severe urge to urinate, a non-ending feeling of a fullness of the bladder. Many of these women tell horror stories about having to go to the bathroom every 15 minutes, 30 minutes or an hour. Everyday. And many women say they do not even make it to the bathroom, causing not only embarrassing social moments, but psychological pain as well.

Urinary incontinence is certainly not a life-threatening situation. However, it certainly effects lifestyle in a dramatic manner. For many it means wearing damp undergarments, diapers, having skin irritation or diaper rash.