Explaining Endometriosis: Signs and Symptoms
Endometriosis is an incredibly common condition, with symptoms like pelvic pain, irregular bleeding, or pain during sex. Despite how common...
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Women’s Healthcast
The latest on women’s health, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Replay: Gynecologic Cancer and Aging
Since September is Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month, we’re replaying a conversation with Dr. Catherine Zhang about how gynecologic cancer...
Replay: Postpartum Mental Health
In the late summer of 2026, the news is full of coverage about postpartum mental health. While people are thinking a lot about this topic, w...
Extreme Heat and Pregnancy
Our summertime risks from extreme heat exposure are rising. And while extreme heat exposure can be dangerous for all of us, pregnant people...
Paths to Parenthood: Third-Party Reproduction
There can be many paths to becoming a parent. Third-party reproduction – or using donor eggs, donor sperm, donor embryos, or gestational car...
Vulvovaginal Health After Menopause
Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause, or GSM, is incredibly common – some research suggests more than 80 percent of people might experience s...
Health and Aging: Weight and Wellness, Part 2
Over the last few months, the Women’s Healthcast has focused on how aging can affect our health. For the last two episodes in the Health and...
Health and Aging: Weight and Wellness, Part 1
Over the last few months, the Women’s Healthcast has focused on how aging can affect our health. For the last two episodes in the Health and...
Health and Aging: Protect Your Pelvic Floor
For the last few months, the Women’s Healthcast has been taking a look at health and aging, covering everything from perimenopause to sex to...
Health and Aging: Heart Health
Cardiovascular disease – things like heart disease and high blood pressure – can have huge impacts on our overall health. For women in parti...
Health and Aging: Let’s Talk About Sex, Part 2
A lot about our lives can change as we get older, and that includes our sex lives. Our last episode covered some of the physical changes tha...
Health and Aging: Let's Talk About Sex, Part 1
For the next few months, the Women’s Healthcast will dive into all aspects of aging and women’s health, through conversations with experts i...
Health and Aging: Gynecologic Cancer
For the next few months, the Women’s Healthcast will dive into all aspects of aging and women’s health, through conversations with experts i...
Health and Aging: Perimenopause
For the next few months, the Women’s Healthcast will dive into all aspects of aging and women’s health, through conversations with experts i...
Introducing the Health and Aging miniseries
It’s no secret that our bodies change as we age, and how we care for them might need to change, too. How many of us feel like we have all th...
Reproductive Autonomy in 2025
Reproductive autonomy is defined as an individual’s ability to make decisions about their reproductive health and access reproductive health...
Replay: Finding Out about Fibroids
Uterine fibroids are incredibly common – between 20 and 70 percent of people with uteruses will develop fibroids during their lifetimes. And...
Know Your STIs: Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
Chlamydia and gonorrhea are two of the most common sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, in the United States. For Wisconsin in particul...
Preparing for Your First Period
For many young people, the idea of starting to get a period is at least a little bit stressful. Dr. Katie O’Brien , a pediatric and adolesce...
All About IUDs
In August 2024, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated recommendations for pain management during intrauterine d...