A Guide to Women's Health

A Guide to Women's Health Fifty and Forward - A Harvard Medical School Special Health Report

Revised edition

Paperback (30 Apr 2013)

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Publisher's Synopsis


Around age 50, the medical decisions are changing and coming more frequently — when to have a mammogram, colonoscopy, or bone density test, for example. You may be trying to decide whether to have bunion surgery, or a knee replacement. Or you may be puzzling over the best way to manage your arthritis or irritable bowel syndrome.

Women’s health studies have shown not only that women are different from men physiologically and emotionally, but also that it’s never too late to feel better by living better. This report focuses on health, not disease. It won’t tell you how to get the best treatments for serious conditions. But it will help you determine the conditions for which you are at greatest risk and do your best to avoid them.

It will also help you to better manage chronic conditions that may erode your quality of life, and to deal with physical changes that are more bothersome than serious. It is designed to give you the information to make the choices today that will ensure you the best health possible tomorrow.

Book information

ISBN: 9781614010517
Publisher: Harvard Health Publications
Imprint: Harvard Health Publications
Pub date:
Edition: Revised edition
DEWEY: 613.04244
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 48
Weight: 156g
Height: 277mm
Width: 211mm
Spine width: 5mm