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Black Cohosh Does Not Treat Hot Flashes

...iveness of Black cohosh, a drug used to treat post menopausal women was checked by a federally funded study// an... it is a well-known and proven treatment to reduce menopausal symptoms. The HALT study began in 2001 and stopped the hormone therapy arm of the trial after the Wo...

Herbal Supplements Fail to Relieve Hot Flushes

...Institutes of Health (NIH), found that women using menopausal hormone therapy, however, did receive significant ...trolled trial compared several herbal regimens and menopausal hormone therapy (estrogen with or without progesterone) to placebo in women ages 45 to 55. Kather...

Natural Remedies Ineffective to Ease Menopausal Symptoms:study

...y uneventfully .But for about 10% to 20 % of women menopausal period can be quite appalling.They suffer symptom... women who suffer unpleasant symptoms during their menopausal period. Hormone therapy offers great relief from hot flashes and night sweats but raises the risk of...

Optimum Period is Five Years to Treat Osteoporosis: Study

...ey role in protecting weakened bones of women past menopausal age. Such women face the risk of fractures due to changes in the hormones in their body that adversely affects their bones. Journal of the American Medical Association published the study. Doctors have often been hesitant to categorically state how ...

Breast Cancer Risk Influenced by the Timing of Weight Gain

...suffer the disease. The finding showed that post menopausal women, who had gained more than 60 pounds between the ages of 20 and menopause, stood a 70% chance of suffering breast cancer as compared to women who had gained less than 20 pounds. Further, the chances of suffering breast cancer was four percent fo...

Hold the Milk Please

...effects as well. The study which involved 16 post menopausal women was performed by measuring levels of FMD (flow mediated dilation) on ingestion of black tea, black tea with 10 percent skimmed milk and plain boiled water, as a control. Blood flow when on the rise, causes blood vessels to relax or dilate. Te...

Germany's Therapeutic Mud Baths Have Healing Qualities

...e with joint problems, arthritis, skin diseases or menopausal problems. Patients should try the treatment two to three times a week. People with heart problems or contagious diseases like tuberculosis should skip the treatment for fear of damaging their circulation. Kraft sees little benefit in home treatme...

Managing Early-Onset Menopause

...use is hormone therapy until you reach the average menopausal age. And that raises questions about the risks of hormone therapy. The results of the Women’s Health Initiative trial, a study suggesting risks related to hormone therapy, don’t apply in the same way to women with premature menopause or premature ova...

Reduced Iron in Blood May Help Few Heart Patients

...uation do not develop coronary diseases while post menopausal women and men have the tendency to suffer from heart diseases as they don’t let out iron. This finding has triggered discussion on the connection of iron and cardiovascular diseases. JYT...

Wyeth Pharma Wins Law Suit

... some time. These drugs are intended to lessen the menopausal symptoms in women. Rush claimed that she had taken premarin and premro believing in the cardiovascular benefits of the drug. Meanwhile the Women's Health Initiative by the National Institutes of Health is keen to probe the cardiovascular benefits o...

Active Lifestyle Reduces Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer

...vity, occupation, family history of breast cancer, menopausal status, and body mass index. According to the researchers, women who exercised had a reduced risk of developing invasive breast cancer provided they didn’t have a family history of breast cancer. This reduction in risk was apparent whether the phys...

Cancer Risk Pronounced in Women With an Ample Waist

...sts also found a prominent connection between post menopausal women and women who had not undergone hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Dr Lesley Walker, director of cancer information for Cancer Research UK, said “According to the National Sizing Survey conducted in 2004 the average British woman now has a 3...

Verdict Against Wyeth Pharma in Prempro Case

...ro is intended as a hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women. Nelson has been taking this drug for six years. She later developed breast cancer and has undergone double mastectomy and is being treated with chemotherapy and radiation. According to the attorney of Wyeth Pharma there is no scientific ba...

Childhood Obesity Linked to Early Puberty.

...s a disturbance in hormone level from childhood to menopausal times. Dr. Joyce Lee from the University of Michigan who headed this study said that is the first longitudinal study which monitored girls from 36 months to 12 years. He also highlighted the long term psychological and social effects of early pube...

Exercise Alleviates Menopausal Symptoms

...e. This research was carried out on 164 inactive menopausal women who were divided into three groups on a random basis. One group was assigned to perform Yoga while the second group was asked to walk and the third group remained inactive. The average age of women in this study was fifty. These women were aske...

Could Estriol Be Used as a Therapy for Treating MS?

...Asia as hormone replacement therapy for women with menopausal symptoms. The fact that the pill already exists, she said, should dramatically reduce the cost of treatment. Most important of all, though, is that the drug potentially provides a one-two punch against MS, both reducing the ability of immune cells ...

MRI Screening of Other Breast Crucial for Patients Diagnosed With Cancer in One Breast

...as not influenced by the patient’s breast density, menopausal status or primary tumor history. "The reason why dense breasts are a problem is that tissue lies between the tumor and the detector. The beam has to go though a lot of normal tissue, which can hide the tumor. But if you take slices, as MRI does, yo...

Starting Time of Hormone Therapy may Augment the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

... reasonable option for the short-term treatment of menopausal symptoms, but does not necessarily imply an absence of harm over prolonged periods of hormone use. In contrast, risk of stroke did not depend on years since menopause or the presence of vasomotor symptoms. The findings are consistent with current rec...

Hot Flashes in Women Linked to High Blood Pressure

...er adjusting for whether they were pre-menopausal, menopausal or post-menopausal," says Dr. Linda Gerber, the study's senior author, professor of public health and medicine and director of the biostatistics and research methodology core at Weill Cornell Medical College. "Future research will help us better unde...

Early Estrogen Therapy May Reduce Cardiovascular Risks

...rospective data on the risks and benefits of early menopausal hormone therapy, particularly as it relates to the...e therapy reduced overall mortality in the younger menopausal women,” said lead investigator of the KEEPS trial at Yale, Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., associate professor...

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