Heavy menstrual bleeding is defined by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as “excessive menstrual blood loss which interferes with the woman's physical, emotional, social, ...

For many women, heavy or irregular menstrual cycles are often brushed off as “normal”—something to endure quietly while juggling work, family, and daily life. But changes in menstrual bleeding can be ...

Nursing-led remote evaluation improved triage, risk identification, and multidisciplinary preparedness in adolescents with ...

More than half of teenage girls experienced heavy bleeding and 40 per cent had an iron deficiency. The research, led from Lund University in Sweden, also shows that young teenage girls who experience ...

Mike Armour receives funding from the MRFF for projects related to menstrual health literacy outside this work. Michelle O'Shea does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

For many women, menstruation is a usual routine for womanhood although sometimes its irregular cycle period may last longer and be even heavier than it has been in previous months which affects their ...

Gemma Sawyer is supported by a Wellcome Trust PhD studentship in Molecular, Genetic and Lifecourse Epidemiology (ref: 218495/Z/19/Z). The funders had no role in study design or analysis. Gemma Sharp ...

Medically reviewed by Khadeja Haye, MD Key Takeaways You can still get a Pap smear while on your period, but heavy bleeding might affect test accuracy.Light bleeding or spotting usually won't affect ...

Some people might not have any symptoms or other unusual symptoms. When you don't have symptoms, it can make diagnosis difficult.

While period pain and heavy menstrual bleeding are common, they're often dealt with privately. Yet they take a profound toll on a person's health—and finances. Now, our new study has calculated how ...