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Breast Cancer Survivors Worry About Infertility

...vealed that few women in this age group go through menopause because of standard treatment, and some studies even show a zero-percent incidence in patients. Ann H. Partridge, M.D., says this study should serve as a wakeup call for health care providers. "We don't have a great system for educating these women...

Midlife Brain Activity a Predictor Of Alzheimer’s Diseas

...ly hormone replacement therapy designed to prevent menopause may prevent the breakdown of myelin. They also say education and other activities designed to keep the mind active may stimulate the production of myein....

Understanding The Link Between Hormone Replacement and Respiratory Disease

Taking hormones after menopause could put a woman at increased risk of developing ..., researchers speculated hormone replacement after menopause might put women at higher risk. COPD, which is mainly caused by smoking, has traditionally hit men h...

Restoration Of Fertility After Cancer Treatment

...gain back their fertility -- even after going into menopause .Cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation... surgery can cause a woman to experience premature menopause and diminish her chance of getting pregnant. Researchers in New York froze a 30-year-old woman’s o...

Accuracy of Mammograms

... a routine mammogram. Doctors say obese women past menopause are more likely than those of normal weight to get breast cancer and also more likely to be diagnosed with later-stage cancers. However, little study exists on the accuracy of mammograms in overweight and obese women. Researchers analyzed more than ...

The Uses Of Soy Protein

...hers say that the decline in estrogen levels after menopause is related to a decrease in bone mineral density and cognitive function along with an increase in cholesterol. Some women have taken hormone therapy to offset these effects of menopause, yet recent studies have shown many risks associated with hormon...

Understanding The Predictor’s Of Alzheimer’s Diseae

...ly hormone replacement therapy designed to prevent menopause may prevent the breakdown of myelin. They also say education and other activities designed to keep the mind active may stimulate the production of myein....

FDA Approves New Osteoporosis Drug

...Osteoporosis is most common is women in their post menopause age, although en above 50yrs are also at a risk. The new drug Boniva may be taken to treat osteoporosis in women after menopause. The drug may increase the bone mass by slowing the bone degeneration in women who take it. However the drug need to be ...

Study links diabetics to increased risk of urinary tract infections

...y of diabetes in comparison to normal healthy post menopause women. Even the incidence of being affected by asymptomatic bacteriuria seems to be more for postmenopausal women with diabetes than those who are not suffering from it. Researchers thus are of opinion that women after their menopause, if are suffe...

Birth month can affect your fertility

...research says that when the women will enter their menopause may also be decided by the time of their birth. T... results of the study show that the average age of menopause for women was 49.4 years for those who were born in spring, while it was 49.9 years for those who we...

Short term hormone replacement therapy effective

...eir uterus. HRT is often used to treat symptoms of menopause like hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness, sleeping disorders etc. The research conducted by WHI is one of the largest and most statistically valid study of HRT done till date. The data for the study reveals that for women with severe vasomotor...

Women who had stopped HRT get back their symptoms

Research suggests that the symptoms of menopause that gets eliminated during the hormone replacemen...eir uterus. HRT is often used to treat symptoms of menopause like hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness, sleeping disorders etc. According to a research fun...

Post-Menopausal Status May Cause Tooth Decay

... to determine possible aggravating effects of post menopause on the severity of periodontal disease. Until we k... ranged from 45 to 73 and all subjects had reached menopause with the average age at 48.8 years. Source: Journal of Periodontology. Information on Tooth dec...

Indian And Danish Research Agencies To Work Together For Osteoporosis

...Osteoporosis is most common in women in their post menopause age, although all men above 50yrs are also at a risk from the condition. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/osteoporosis.asp ...

International Osteoporosis Research Centre To Be Started In India.

...d bone disorders.” The research studies related to menopause linked to osteoporosis and development of new drugs for treatment of Osteoporosis. IFU is an investment fund owned by the Danish government and has a mandate to promote economic activities in developing countries like India by investing in commercial...

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

...Medindia How can Menopause be treated? Natural menopause requires no treatment. Sometimes ovaries are remov...ng women due to a surgical reason and this kind of menopause is called surgical menopause. Surgical menopause that occurs prior to natural menopause may require ...

New Insight In Periodontal Disease In Postmenopausal Women

...e 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 conclusions. Source: American Academy of ...

Low bone mass in Postmenopausal Women

...ege of Surgeons in New Jersy, when a woman reaches menopause and loses estrogen, she can lose a good deal of bone density faster than it can be replaced and as a result have fragile bones and fractures.The study found that nearly 40 percent of postmenopausal women in the United States have undetected low bone ...

Chemo may not assist in fighting cancer

...o breast cancer surgery patients who had completed menopause and whose disease had not spread to the lymph nodes. About 40 percent of the approximately 162,000 women in the United States diagnosed with breast cancer each year fit this category, the study said. Researchers further divided the 1,550 patients in...

Drugs Manufacturers Capitalizing On The Surge In Demand For Bone Health Care

...se, tend to stop taking bone health supplements as menopause symptoms subside, and on average only take the products for between one and two years not long enough to see the positive effects. The use of ‘adjunct therapy’, where doctors advise an add-on therapy of calcium supplements to drug therapies, will buo...

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