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Study Indicates An Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer In Women Undertaking Estrogen and Testosterone Therapy

...estrogen and testosterone to treat the symptoms of menopause may have an increased risk of breast cancer. Th...vidence has suggested that many of the symptoms of menopause that include decreased sex drive, worse moods and poorer quality of life would be related to this de...

HRT: Boon or Bane?

...gs. Many doctors now recommend starting HRT during menopause and slowly tapering off to no treatment.Source: Eurekalert...

Alternative therapy – an alternative to HRT

... a risk of stomach upset and rashes. Symptoms of menopause like hot flushes and mood swings can be treated with the traditional HRT. However, the risk of and development a blood clot on the lungs, increases. This study investigates complementary therapies and their effectiveness in clinical studies. Of th...

Migraine in women

...prescribed to pregnant patients. Menopause:Early menopause -- Changing hormone levels make the menopausal tra...ve been useful in managing these migraines. Late menopause -- Migraines beginning after age 65 is extremely uncommon and warrants further evaluation. Physician...

Wyeth Embroiled in a Lawsuit over its Hormone Replacement Therapy

...trogen and progesterone to overcome the effects of menopause and has been sold in the United States since 1995. Wyeth’s lawyers argued that the drug company had met its ethical and legal obligations in determining the treatment's safety, before U.S. District Judge William R. Wilson, Jr. Reeves’ lawyers have ...

Ovary removal linked with Early Death in Younger Women

...unger ages, but it may become less important after menopause and then may have no effect or may be disadvantage... Clinic. All of them underwent the surgery before menopause and for reasons other than cancer. 1,293 cases of unilateral ovariectomy, 1097 cases of bilateral ...

Hot Flashes Could Be Minimized By Rhubarb Extract

...hers revealed. Perimenopause is the period before menopause when irregular periods are common. It is during this period that 80 percent of menopausal women in Western countries experience hot flashes, which can be debilitating in some cases. Hormone Replacement therapy was the usual treatment for such sympt...

Study Suggests Vitamin K Deficiency as an Osteoporosis Risk Factor

...n before any bone loss that could be attributed to menopause can be measured. "Our study suggests that the generally accepted level of vitamin K in healthy women is inadequate to maintain bone health just at the onset of menopause," Lukacs said. Vitamin K is essential for making a bone protein called osteoc...

Probing Into the Reasons for Alarming Increase in Breast Cancer

..., girls attain menarche much earlier, consequently menopause also arrives much later. Money power enjoyed by many has also led to smaller nuclear families, even late motherhood and lesser breastfeeding, especially in homes where women support the family income by going out to work. And finally, evolved proce...

NIH Funds the Development of National Consortium of Universities

...held belief that hormone replacement therapy after menopause was beneficial for women's overall health, while in fact the drugs increased women's risk of breast cancer, strokes and heart attacks. With the new research network, large university hospitals can pool their patients to spot medication side effects -...

Do Anti-wrinkle Cosmetics Really Work?

...e human skin grow older. Women going through the menopause frequently suffer from very dry skin, points out Kremer. In such cases, anti-ageing compounds which combine vegetable hormones with traditional yeast and vitamins can be very effective. These vegetable estrogens enhance skin hydration, increasing its...

Increased Risk of Bowel cancer after Menopause

... than among men and Australian researchers suspect menopause is to blame.// In a Sydney study that was carried...esults suggested a possible biological event after menopause made women more susceptible to death from bowel cancer. Dr Koo said, "This is indirect evidence th...

Cause of ‘Down Syndrome’ cannot be pinned down to maternal age aloe

...dvantaged embryos. However, as women approach the menopause and the risk of future infertility increases, this selection, or filtering stringency, is expected to relax. Neuh?user and Krackow’s paper provides evidence that older mothers, who give birth to children with Down Syndrome, have a relaxed stringency...

Higher Risk of Premature Menopause in Twins

...to 5 times higher risk of suffering from premature menopause than those without one//. The study was conducte... 404 UK and 428 Australian twin pairs with natural menopause and compared it with a control group of 3,483 Dutch women enrolled for a breast-screening programme....

Older Mothers Pass on Infertility Risk to their Daughters

...'s fathers had no significant effect. The age of menopause is typically around 50. The researcher’s studies revealed that the nearer a woman is to menopause when she gives birth, the higher the chance her daughter will have impaired fertility. Dr Nagy sai...

Exercise helps keep colds away

... been doing any regular exercise and all were past menopause of an average age of 61 years. They were divided into 2 groups, the exercise group and the control group. 53 of them were allocated to the first group, where they performed moderate exercises like brisk walking for half-an-hour, 5 days a week. Whil...

Cure of Cancer Requires Early detection

... among women who have an early menarchy and a late menopause and it is also related to diet rich in fat." According to Dr. Patel both these cancers were preventable and could be cured in over 80 per cent of the cases if detected early. Therefore the importance of screening for these cancers was underlined onl...

National Cancer Awareness Day observed

... among women who have an early menarche and a late menopause and it is also related to diet rich in fat." Dr. Patel said, "Both these cancers are preventable and can be cured in more than 80 per cent of the cases if these are detected early. Hence, screening for these cancers is very vital. " She talked abou...

Hypertension During Pregnancy Increases Later Heart and Kidney Disease Risk

...d Scientific Exposition in San Diego. 'Along with menopause and hormone use, hypertensive pregnancy diseases may contribute to gender-specific differences in the clinical course and outcomes of CVD,' comments Dr. Vesna D. Garovic of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, lead author of the new study. 'Impro...

Black Cohosh Does Not Treat Hot Flashes

... pill) "About 80 percent of women who go through menopause experience hot flashes," said Katherine M. Newton, PhD, Associate Director for Research at Group Health in Seattle, and lead author of the study.” "Many women are looking for alternatives to hormone therapy which is the most proven remedy for hot f...

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