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Menopause considerations

...re menopause are the group that benefits most from hormone replacement therapy, he commented....

Gel prevents pregnancy

...e gel is like any other gel, but it contains a new hormone - progesterone - based on the female hormone, not ...he skin and acts as a contraceptive". Each month, hormone levels are tested and an ultrasound done to see how much of the gel is needed to stop ovulation occu...

Love the sun

...re it is converted into the active form, a steroid hormone that allows bones to absorb calcium and develop.Only 10 per cent of vitamin D in the body is from dietary sources - which include oily fish, eggs, butter and margarine - and this goes for babies too....

Male contraceptive in trial

... a dose of progesterone, then a pellet of the male hormone testosterone is placed under the skin in the abdomen.Study coordinator Professor David Chater from the Royal Kings Hospital in UK says the technique works by putting the testes to rest, while ensuring the male libido and male characteristics remain i...

New therapy better at increasing bone density

...r bone density.It is already well established that hormone replacement therapy - oestrogen plus progesterone helps prevent osteoporosis in women past the menopause. According to researchers at Creighton University in the US, a new study covering 400 women, that this blend of hormones increases bone density i...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...e guinea pigs whose ovaries had been removed. Once hormone replacement therapy had been administered, the bra...or the male equivalent andropause, reduces gonadal hormone secretion. “Brain amyloid levels may then rise enough to cause amyloid accumulation to begin,” he sa...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

...factors involved in the bone-making process is the hormone estrogen. As we age, however, we start to lose more than we make, causing our skeleton to grow more fragile. In women, the start of this process is often marked by menopause, a time when, not coincidentally, estrogen levels dramatically decline. N...

Have sex and stay young

...ain chemicals. In women it produces a human growth hormone which helps the process." Regular, loving sex came second to physical and mental activity as the factors most important to retaining youth. The research discovered that people can benefit from working and socialising with younger and older people a...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...eta blockers, checks the stimulating action of the hormone adrenaline and helps keep heart rates down in cardiac patients. // In the Texas experiment, the drug eased the children's heart rates an average of 20 percent. More significantly, the youngsters lost just 1 percent of muscle and bone mass over fou...

Diabetes on the rise

... when the body can no longer produce enough of the hormone insulin to properly regulate the levels of sugar in the bloodstream. Type I diabetes, often referred to as juvenile diabetes, happens when the cells in the pancreas which produce insulin are destroyed. Patients require daily insulin injections, and...

New gene for hairloss

...protein acts to shut those genes down when thyroid hormone is absent, researchers concluded.George, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues report their study of the hairless gene in the Oct. issue of the journal Genes and Development. According to them the hairless...

Estrogen Does Not Prevent Recurrent Strokes

Despite some past evidence that hormone replacement might lower stroke risk in older women...e risks. The findings add to growing evidence that hormone replacement therapy does not have the cardiovascular benefits doctors once believed. // Many docto...

Short stature -a problem

...ound. Researchers found that treatment with growth hormone not only boosted growth in children, but also impr...ills and behaviour problems before starting growth hormone therapy. They were examined again over a three-year period after starting treatment. Scientists in...

Contraceptives have dual effects

...e Pill are due to the way oestrogen - a female sex hormone - works in the body.// When oestrogen in the Pill ... The oestrogen may also help to reduce levels of a hormone called IGF-I that has also been linked to an increased risk of bowel cancer. They focused on the re...

Hormone treatment helps obese people slim down

Treatment with leptin, a natural hormone that helps control body weight, could help many ov... has already helped people who completely lack the hormone because of a genetic mutation. But only a handful of people don't have any leptin at all naturally. ...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

...ctomies to cure menorrhagia, while other women try hormone treatment.// The other option is to destroy part of the lining of the uterus, called the endometrium. Gynecologists can scrape off part of the endometrium, much as they do during abortion, or can use one of a handful of outpatient FDA-approved devi...

Hormone Deficiency Results In Miscarriage

A deficiency in a protective hormone may be behind some early miscarriages, preliminary...gests. The hormone, called corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), is normally released by the mother and the embryo soon after it implants itself in the womb. ...

Allergies are related to mothers' menses

...rgies.This is due to the influence of the mother's hormone levels on the development of the child. The stud... of the fetus." Although there is a suspicion that hormone levels are key to this, there was no association between the age that the girl children had their fi...

Breast cancer evidence

...ight diminishes the body's supply of melatonin - a hormone involved in the control of the body's// natural rh...ay lead to an increase in levels of the female sex hormone oestrogen, which has been linked to breast cancer. The results of the latest study were based on th...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...y of glucose tolerance, cortisol concentrations (a hormone that helps to regulate blood sugar concentrations), heart rate, sleepiness, and the impact on the production of various hormones. Following the period of sleep deprivation, the researchers found subjects had higher levels of glucose and cortisol in t...

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