menstrual

Chaste plant a boon

... increases progesterone production which keeps the menstrual cycle regular. The study followed 178 women diagnosed with PMS who suffered symptoms such as unstable mood, anger, anxiety, tiredness, sleep disorders and bloating. They took one 20mg tablet a day throughout three monthly cycles, and the treatment w...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

...y a heart attack at the beginning of their monthly menstrual cycle, according to new research from England. Angina is a heavy, squeezing chest pain which occurs when there is insufficient oxygen supply to the heart. It is more common in patients //with a history of heart disease. Researchers from the Cardi...

Acupuncture for conception

...ertain number of eggs, hundreds are lost with each menstrual cycle and those that are left after 35 years are more fragile, making fertilization and normal conception more difficult.// Because the body rejects embryos that aren't developing properly, the rate of miscarriages among women over 40 is high, abou...

Women find difficulty in calling it 'Quits'

...omen who smoke. Smoking is associated with greater menstrual bleeding and duration of dysmenorrhea, as well as greater variability in menstrual cycle length. Women who smoke have a more difficult time becoming pregnant, and reach menopause on a...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

...ed a new method to treat women suffering excessive menstrual bleeding, a device that uses radio waves to zap th... of women suffer menorrhagia, benign but troubling menstrual bleeding so excessive they can require more than 20 tampons in a single day. Thousands of women ever...

Irregular Periods Linked to Diabetes

Women who have irregular or very long menstrual cycles have a higher risk of developing diabetes. Women with such menstrual abnormalities needn't panic because the risk can be reduced markedly by lifestyle measures, most not...

FDA Approves New Arthritis Drug, Bextra

...be indicated for treating rheumatoid arthritis and menstrual pain. The exact launch date and price per dose has yet to be determined....

Breast feeding can alter hormones

...ing mothers can modify the length of other women's menstrual cycles, say researchers.Chemicals called pheromone...hs. The results showed that the length of women's menstrual cycles moved towards extremes after taking in the pheromones - short cycles became significantly sho...

A crude custom

...vagina, leaving only a small opening for urine and menstrual blood - a process known as infibulation. The aim of the process is to ensure the woman is faithful to her future husband. Some communities consider girls ineligible for marriage if they have not been circumcised. Health workers say that the operatio...

Endometriosis coalesced with genes

...in the abdominal cavity, but still responds to the menstrual cycle — causing bleeding, pain, inflammation, adhesions, and sometimes infertility. Australian endometriosis researchers have made use of the Australian Twin Registry, and have joined with the Oxegene project, based at Oxford University in the Unite...

Contraceptive pill to reduce PMS

...eover, the hormonal fluctuations typical of a real menstrual cycle are smoothed out and this may help to relieve pre-menstrual tension syndrome." Contraceptive pills work by artificially raising the level of female hormones in the blood. This overrides the normal hormonal signal from the ovaries and prevent...

Cure for common cold

...h control pills experienced bleeding between their menstrual periods. The panel also questioned whether the drug could be used by the general population because the participants in the clinical trial were mainly young, white, otherwise healthy women. <br...

Osteoporosis could be caused by irregular periods

...ment (NICHD), young women who experience irregular menstrual periods may be at high risk for developing osteopo...rrhea. Amenorrhea occurs when a woman misses her menstrual period for three months or more. When asked, most women did not view a change in their menstrual cyc...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

...ercise may extend the time a woman has between her menstrual periods. The research supports one theory on why r...gether. Whether more-moderate exercise affects the menstrual cycle significantly is still unclear. Dr. Barbara Sternfeld of Kaiser Permanente of Oakland, Califo...

Depressed women show signs of earlier onset of Perimenopause

... clinical changes and ending a year after the last menstrual periods, is a time of increased vulnerability to d...interview indicating a seven day or more change in menstrual cycle length, a change in menstrual flow amount or duration, and cessation of menstruation for at le...

Gene study links endometriosis, infertility

...to new ways of diagnosing and treating the painful menstrual disorder, new research suggests. What's more, the researchers may have also pinpointed a reason why infertility is often an unfortunate consequence of the condition. Anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of women have endometriosis, a condition that occurs ...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

Women who use menstrual cycle monitors to detect their fertile times of th...ated 30 percent to 40 percent rely on some type of menstrual cycle monitor to detect their fertile times for either conception or contraceptive purposes. The day...

A Word Of Caution For Tampon Users

...s, choose the correct absorbency size according to menstrual flow, and use pads in the evenings. Researchers are continuing to study the reasons for the increase in incidents, especially since women are becoming immune to the antibiotics that are being prescribed to treat TSS....

New Treatment Option For Menstrual Migraine

... analyzed data from 155 female patients to look at menstrual migraines.Their research shows that in the five da...triptan, also known as Frova, in the prevention of menstrual migraines. For the study, they included 443 patients. The patients were randomly assigned to placebo...

Hormone Leptin Found To Be Effective In Treating Women With Infertility Problems

...n receiving twice-daily leptin supplements resumed menstrual periods and their ovaries were once again functioning normally. The hormone also significantly improved bone density markers in the blood. However no change was seen in the control group. However researchers say that more study is required to confi...

Growth Patterns In Childhood Could Predict Breast Cancer Later In Life

...to affect breast cancer risk, such as age of first menstrual period and age at first childbirth. Thus researchers conclude saying that their results provide evidence that factors influencing fetal, childhood and adolescent growth are important independent risk factors for breast cancer in adulthood....

Suppressing A Girls Height In Adolescence Could Lead to Fertility Problems

...re 40-percent less likely to conceive in any given menstrual cycle when they were trying to become pregnant than women who didn’t take estrogen. Researchers say their findings indicate that exposure to high-dose estrogens in adolescence is associated with impaired fertility in later life. However researchers ...

The Bio-probe –“ Boon to women ?

...e was originally created to measure changes in the menstrual cycle and has been used to help couples with infertility. Temple University will also look at using this technology to help prevent premature births by measuring cervical abnormalities....

Asthma linked to irregular menstruation

...y, asthma medication may cause disturbances in the menstrual cycle. Secondly, irregular menstruation and its treatment may cause asthma. And thirdly, common etiological factors may trigger both asthma and irregular menstruation. Researchers of the study feel that female sex hormones play an important role in ...

Developmental Origins of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

...or body hair than normal, and one in four reported menstrual irregularity of greater than four days. Five per cent of women reported that they had an existing diagnosis of PCOS. We examined maternal weight in late pregnancy, birth weight and placental weight in relation to the symptoms of PCOS, or an existing ...

Roots of polycystic ovarian syndrome traced to mother’s wom

...le hormones called androgens, with irregular or no menstrual cycles, and with presence or absence of small cyst...ay affect the women’s health and cause problems in menstrual cycle and fertility, hormonal imbalance, insulin production, cardiovascular problems, and physical a...

Two New Human Papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines to prevent cervical cancer

...uration and efficacy of the vaccine, its effect on menstrual cycle and the need for booster vaccine. Problems with the new vaccine are due to high cost, the dosages required are three injections and creating a cold chain for transport to rural areas. This vaccine should be modified to give protection against m...

Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives May Increase Risk For Heart Attack Or Stroke

...y disease is a condition that can affect a woman's menstrual cycle, fertility, hormones, insulin production, heart, blood vessels and appearance. "Despite the doubling of risk associated with the pill, the absolute risk for a cardiovascular event in an individual woman taking the pill is low … Women using th...

Insight for Hot Flashes In Postmenopausal Women

.... It begins at around the age of 40 years when the menstrual periods become irregular. Hormones levels of estrogen and progesterone declines and this may cause a variety of health problems like hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and end of having menstruation periods. /font>...

Pause as you please

... a safe and reversible way of stopping the monthly menstrual cycle. Two versions of the new pill have just passed their first test in animals, with the results published by American and German scientists in the latest issue of the journal Human Reproduction. // It could not only benefit women who find having ...

New birth control to limit women's periods

... and strokes," Rako says. "And that's why in their menstrual years, women have fewer heart attacks and strokes ...king about doing away with women's normal hormonal menstrual cycle, which is really responsible for what fundamentally makes a woman a woman." The failure rate ...

Seaweed Supplements Could Prevent Breast Cancer

.... The rats also experienced a lengthening of their menstrual cycles, another good sign when it comes to prevent...risk of the disease. When treating two women with menstrual problems researchers came up with the idea of doing the above study. After the women began taking ke...

Outpatient Treatment Possible For Patients with Uterine Fibroid Tumors

...enced by uterine bleeding so profuse that it soaks menstrual pads in less than two hours, and requires multiple changes throughout the day, or troubled by pelvic pressure, urinary frequency, or constipation due to uterine fibroidsSource: Newswise Medindia on Uterine Fibroids:Uterine Fibroids: These are non-can...

They Call It PMS Because Mad Cow Disease Was Already Taken

...t. The women were evaluated over the course of two menstrual cycles. The analysis of the results has proved that the oral contraceptive method is effective in reducing symptoms associated with the PMS. For women who are seeking contraception in addition to control of PMDD, this would be more efficient becaus...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

... physicians about emerging links between seizures, menstrual cycles and other interrelationships in women's reproductive health. Anticonvulsants are used to control seizures in people with epilepsy, but are more frequently prescribed for the treatment of non-epileptic neurological pain symptoms, such as mig...

Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy

...ere unsure of their pregnancy status or whose last menstrual period occurred more than a month before the survey, pregnancy status was confirmed by a urinary human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) test. Women who were initially HIV-negative and who were neither pregnant nor breastfeeding provided a comparison grou...

Women can now gauge their own future fertility

...nt of view but also for older women who are having menstrual problems such as heavy periods and are thinking about whether to have a hysterectomy or wait for the menopause....

MRI Shows Emotional Changes During Menstrual Cycle

...vealed that mental processes can change across the menstrual cycle. // The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been...otional linguistic stimuli varies depending on the menstrual cycle phase. Specifically, anterior-medial OFC activity for negative vs. neutral stimuli was incre...

Women With High Oestrogen Levels Have Prettier Faces

...male attractiveness also fluctuated throughout the menstrual cycle, peaking at a woman's most fertile days. When women in the photographs were wearing make-up, no relationship between attractiveness and oestrogen was found, revealing that make up can be used by less attractive women to compensate for the att...

Use Of Ibuprofen Safe For Short Periods

...duce fever and to relieve headaches, muscle aches, menstrual pain, aches and pains from the common cold, backache, and pain after surgery or dental work....

Mother Claims Hefty Compensation For Failed Abortion Of Twins

...at she could gain weight and suffer from irregular menstrual cycles as a result of the injection. She claims that when she subsequently gained weight, she attributed it to the injection. However after 33 weeks when she returned to the hospitals, she was told that one of the foetuses was alive and well and was ...

Scientists Unravel Link Between HRT And Breast Cancer Gene, BRCA1

...s a necessity for cell growth, such as during the menstrual cycle and during pregnancy. Specific receptor molecules, located inside the cell play a critical role in the binding and transport of progesterone. A gene expression is then manifested due to activation of the receptor. In order to understand the r...

Hormonal Changes in Girls Increase Their Risk of Insomnia

...had sleep disturbances around the age of 11. After menstrual periods girls were at more than twice the risk of insomnia as boys. The findings were published in the journal Pediatrics. Johnson, a researcher with RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina also suggests another reason for girls...

Voice Choice: Woo Men, Strike a Deep Chord

... attractiveness and dominance of voices across the menstrual cycle and predicted that preference for masculinit...s preferences for masculine voices change over the menstrual cycle: women prefer masculine voices more when fertile." The latest issue of science Journal Hormo...

Women With Fewer Periods Have Low Risk Of Gynecological Cancer

...cientists have now found that women who skip their menstrual cycle through contraceptive pills or other methods... more periods than in primitive societies and each menstrual cycle leads to big swings in the ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone.' According to Fraser,...

Deadly 'abortion pill' takes two more lives

...cy up to 49 days after the beginning of the latest menstrual cycle. It blocks a hormone required to sustain a pregnancy. The second medicine, misoprostol, induces contractions, terminating the pregnancy. "RU-486 is a deadly drug that is killing pregnant women. This drug should never have been approved, and it...

Women Affected With VWD is one of the Reason for Heavy Periods

...) is a condition which leads to heavy or prolonged menstrual flow. Apart from this the other symptoms are heavy nosebleeds, bruise easily and lengthy bleeding from small cuts and scratches. The Haemophilia Society says that women often think that the heavy periods they share with other members of their family ...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...gh levels of benzene for many months had irregular menstrual periods and a decrease in the size of their ovaries. Benzene toxicity in large part is due to generation of oxygen radicals. The US Department of Health And Human Services (DHHS) has determined that benzene is a known human carcinogen. Hematologic ...

Jealousy In Men Peaks When Partners Are Most Fertile

... to alpha males during the fertile period of their menstrual cycle. They feel that this could be so due to the masculine features are linked to high testosterone levels. Rob Burriss, a postgraduate student at Liverpool University's school of biological sciences and the lead author of the study explains that ...

Surgery or IUD for Heavy Periods

...The studies enrolled a total of 821 women. Heavy menstrual bleeding affects about one in five women of reprod...ery.” In the United States, oral drugs for heavy menstrual bleeding include birth control pills, progesterone analogs and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs....

Hope for Women With Fertility Problems

...tudied the biopsies taken at several stages in the menstrual cycles of 12 women with previous histories of failed IVF treatments and fertility problems, to check if the levels of the protein were altered during the cycle. Indeed, the team's research went according to plan and they found evidence pointing to ...

Stress Affects Fertility

...hough they are hard to recognise, Some have normal menstrual cycles, but still have insufficient progesterone to support a pregnancy." Several other papers that were presented at the conference yesterday also found that reducing stress during IVF treatment might significantly increase the chances of success....

The conception of Anya, a period-free contraceptive pill

...y that does not support the unnatural cessation of menstrual cycle, say the study has not completely gauged the permanent health implications of using a period-free contraceptive. The lurking fear of breast cancer, or lowered bone density for women on the pill on long durations, is still very much on top of mi...

Call Center Workers At An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer

...ent. Nighttime work may also play havoc with the menstrual cycle. "Painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea), absence of menstruation (amenorrhea), and heavy menstruation (menorrhagia) are conditions associated with women taking the graveyard shift," Colina said. "Although the study isn't conclusive, it provides u...

Women With Severe Hot Flashes May Have Increased Chronic Sleep Problem

...re perimenopausal, meaning that they had irregular menstrual cycles with at least one period in the previous ye...5 percent) were postmenopausal, or had reported no menstrual bleeding in the previous year. Hot flashes were defined as mild if they usually did not involve swea...

Women Doubtful of Food Research Benefiting Them

... trials and results, scientists said. For example, menstrual cycles, pregnancy, lactation and menopause can all change the outcome of food studies specifically targeting women's needs. Women metabolize food and drugs at different rates than men, and suffer from heart disease at a higher rate. "One size does ...

A connection between gingival enlargement and steroid abuse

...iods of hormonal fluctuations such as puberty, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menopause, contraceptives and ovulation induction drugs in women.'People taking AAS without medical supervision should be informed of the adverse effects and strongly encouraged to begin a cessation program. Since periodontal infec...

How Does Leptin Work?

...dy showed that low doses of Leptin can restore the menstrual cycle in such women. Using their STAT3-blocking technique, the Einstein researchers showed that this acute effect of Leptin depends on the activation of STAT3. ‘This work has shown that STAT3 is fundamentally important for expressing several of lepti...

Men Think Clearly Only If They Sleep Alone

...eep during various phases of their life during the menstrual cycle, bringing up children and the menopause stage. ...

Higher-Dose Copper IUDs Provide Better Pregnancy Protection

... leading to removal of the copper IUD is increased menstrual bleeding. In this review, IUDs with a higher copper dose had a slightly increased risk of discontinuation due to bleeding and other side effects during the first year, but rates of discontinuation were similar among all IUDs over longer follow-up per...