Gastrointestinal Health Care For Women Morning sickness isn't the only gastrointestinal ill that strikes women. Women & Infants' Center for Women's Gastrointestinal Services offers a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary focus on problems with the gastrointestinal system of women, in a setting staffed by all female practitioners.
Colorectal Cancer Screening Is A Must Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancer diagnoses for both men and women. Screenings can detect colorectal cancer when it can still be treated. But screening rates for women are still quite low.
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Perinatal Hepatitis Can Be Prevented
Identifying pregnant women infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and preventing transmission of the virus to the baby is the goal of the Rhode Island Perinatal Hepatitis Prevention Program.
» Perinatal Hepatitis Prevention Program
Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Constipation? Chronic Pelvic Pain? You Are Not Alone
No one wants to talk about it, but 5.5 million Americans - most of them women - are affected by it. But treatment options are available to women suffering from fecal incontinence, urinary incontinence and constipation.
» Managing Fecal And Urinary Incontinence
I Threw Up From The Day That My Body Knew I Was Pregnant Patient Story: Amy Up to 90% of pregnant women experience nausea. Nearly 50% of women cope with vomiting as well. Called morning sickness, this generally goes away by the end of the first trimester. » Read this patient story
Some Nights it's Easier to Sleep in the Tub Patient Story: Katie In the fall of 2002, at the age of 24, I began to have episodes of severe abdominal cramping and frequent, urgent bouts of diarrhea. At first, I thought these episodes were due to something I ate or that I was fighting off a bug of some kind. After several months of these symptoms, I knew something was not right. » Read this patient story
