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New birth control to limit women's periods

...st common birth control pills combine the hormones estrogen and progestin for use for three weeks followed by a week of placebos to allow a woman to have her period. Seasonale, however, uses the same types of hormones but for 12 weeks straight before a week of placebos. Not having as many periods -- and the ...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

...next generation of pills however lowered levels of estrogen and added forms of another hormone called progestin ( norgestrel or levonorgestrel). Progestins inhibit ovulation by suppressing a hormone in the pituitary gland and also cause mucus to thicken on the cervix, forming a barrier to fertilization of the...

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

...herapy can be specifically identified based on the estrogen sensitivity of their tumors and on other factors, ...d by estrogen, described in medical terms as being estrogen receptor negative, or ER-negative. There were 1,000 who were ER-positive. For the remaining 75 patie...

Estrogen therapy for hot flushes

Results of two new studies suggest that low-dose estrogen therapy should be considered first line treatment ...une issue of Fertility and Sterility says low-dose estrogen therapy is as effective as high-dose estrogen in treating menopausal symptoms. Low-doses are actuall...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

... five years ago there was no real treatment except estrogen replacement, but since then four drugs have been p... calcium during their lifetime and they don't lose estrogen as women do at menopause. However, slighter men and men living longer lives can also experience oste...

Use parathyroid hormone to fight brittle bone disease

...study showed that parathyroid hormone coupled with estrogen replacement worked better than estrogen alone in boosting bone mass and preventing fractures among women with osteoporosis. At the end...

Beat menopausal symptoms with low-dose estrogen

Results of two new studies suggest that low-dose estrogen therapy should be considered first line treatment ...une issue of Fertility and Sterility says low-dose estrogen therapy is as effective as high-dose estrogen in treating menopausal symptoms. Low-doses are actuall...

New Insight In Periodontal Disease In Postmenopausal Women

... age of 35yrs. Researchers are of the opinion that estrogen deficiency associated with menopause and this leading to consequent loss of bone mineral density are the chief reasons of increased rate of tooth loss. The researchers had followed up their patients for an average of 11.5 years to come to their concl...

Risk of Breast Cancer Overestimated with Hormone Replacement Therapy(HRT) Treatment

...The study found that the risk was higher when both estrogen and progesterone was used but very low when estrogen alone was used for five years. "Although we found the additional breast cancer risk with hormone re...

Insight for Hot Flashes In Postmenopausal Women

...trual 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>...

New Discovery May Help Treat Infertility

...e ineffective for women who lack a gene called the estrogen receptor beta. The study also showed that fertilit...s in mice that were genetically engineered to lack estrogen receptor beta. The estrogen receptor beta is one of two estrogen receptor proteins which mediate the...

Knowledge Of Infertility Gets New Inputs

Women who may lack a gene called estrogen receptor beta and not react to medications that ca...ntal Health Sciences reported that the gene called estrogen receptor beta plays an important role in moving the egg outside the ovary to be fertilized. If women...

Women who had stopped HRT get back their symptoms

...dure that uses medication containing hormones like estrogen plus progestin, also known as synthetic progestero... relief from their menopausal symptoms, may go for estrogen alone in case she had a hysterectomy, or estrogen along with progesterone in lowest effective dosage...

Environmental estrogens can cause breast cancer

Exposure to environmental estrogen 4-nonylphenol may increase the incidence// of brea...ancer may be increased if exposed to environmental estrogen 4-nonylphenol. 4-nonylphenol is an estrogen like chemical which is released from cleaning agents, fr...

Short term hormone replacement therapy effective

...dure that uses medication containing hormones like estrogen plus progestin, also known as synthetic progestero...that for women with severe vasomotor symptoms from estrogen deficiency can benefit from the short-term use of the therapy. Also women who have survived from gyn...

Physical activity improves survival in women with breast cancer

... follicle-stimulating hormones, reduced endogenous estrogen exposure which explains the lesser risk The study concluded that women with breast cancer can improve survival with moderate exercise which is just one dimension in support of exercise. Merits of physical activity are many folds and are part of th...

Research explains why postmenopausal women accumulate abdominal fat.

... that this weight gain may be due to a drop in the estrogen levels of the body that releases a hormone called cortisol. Women who underwent hormone replacement therapy had a low level of the hormone cortisol. For women who did not have the hormone replacement therapy, the higher levels of the cortisol was rel...

Mothers diet in pregnancy and after can prevent daughter’s breast cancer

... high in omega-3 fatty acids decrease the maternal estrogen levels. This in turn affects the increase in immunity that leads to less risk of breast cancer in daughters’....

Chemicals in clear plastics can cause learning difficulties

...of side effects such as inhibition of induction of estrogen by the synaptic connection in the hippocampus of t...ell. This may be in the form of impaired levels of estrogen in the brain that may lead to different conditions at different ages. Pregnant women who may be ex...

Effect of estrogen on behavior difference between sexes

Researchers have found that the hormone estrogen is responsible for the way males behave in an unfe...n man. Laboratory testing of mice showed that an estrogen receptor in the hypothalamus is responsible of defeminization or removal of feminine traits from man...

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