Tag: National Women’s Health Week


May 18, 2012

Talking about Breast Cancer

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Do You Have a Story? How have you been affected by breast cancer? Tell us your story and help all of us learn more about the disease. (To share your story, please leave a comment at the end of this post. 23andMe customers can also share their stories in our Breast Cancer Community Group.) Roughly [...]

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May 17, 2012

The War Waged Within: Autoimmunity in Women

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Many autoimmune diseases affect women more frequently than men. The ratio of affected women to affected men are given above for several autoimmune diseases on which 23andMe reports. (Source: American Autoimmune Related Disease Association, Inc.) There are many wonderful things about being a woman, but our [...]

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May 15, 2012

Getting a Handle on Women’s Fertility

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Although the majority of respondents to 23andMe’s Female Fertility survey stated that they weren’t trying to conceive the first time they became pregnant, around 13% said that they had tried or were currently trying to become pregnant, a percentage that’s on par with the national infertility average of [...]

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May 14, 2012

From Menarche to Menopause

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Two of the biggest physical milestones in a woman’s life are menarche (pronounced “MEN-ar-kee”), the first menstrual period in girls, and menopause, when menstruation stops and female reproductive hormones slow. These milestones are universal and mark the beginning and end of a woman’s reproductive [...]

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