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Ovary removal linked with Early Death in Younger Women

...how some increase in risk of death from breast and uterine cancers, and neurologic and vascular conditions. C...* These women may have a genetic predisposition to uterine diseases or other symptoms that prompted hysterectomy, which then prompted preventive ovariectomy, w...

Uterine Cancer More Lethal For Black Women

A new study says that uterine cancer is more lethal for black women. The study p...n the journal Cancer found that black women// with uterine cancer survived for 10.2 months as compared to 12.2 months in white women given the same treatment. ...

A Safe Drug For Safe Delivery

...s a result of a piece of placenta remaining in the uterine cavity or following onset of infections. The WHO definition of primary post-partum haemorrhage is loss of blood estimated to be > 500ml from the genital tract within 24 hours of delivery. Women from rural parts of India were studied for thi...

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

...easing maternal age. There is strong evidence for uterine selection against genetically disadvantaged 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 eviden...

Smoking Hinders Pregnancy

...n a series of health areas, its possible effect on uterine receptiveness has never been evaluated until now. 'Our study is just the first step on this path, and certainly not the last, but it means that we should now be telling patients, if they are heavy smokers, that even if fertilization takes place the...

Human Uterine Transplant In Near Future

...e. 'If a person walked in tomorrow and requested a uterine transplant I am cautiously optimistic we could be ...al, claimed in September that he would carry out a uterine transplant in 2 years time. Mats Brannstrom of Gothenburg University, Sweden, who has been working...

Does Treatment of Fibroids Guarantee Fertility ?

... the patient strongly desired future fertility and uterine preservation.' To meet the patient’s wishes and ...part. The Jefferson physicians first performed a uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), a minimally invasive radiologic procedure that blocks the arteries that ...

Mifepristone Reliable For Treating Uterine Fibroids

...ug mifepristone (also known as RU-486) shrinks the uterine fibroid tumors //and greatly improves the quality ... and Gynecology. Leiomyoma, the medical term for uterine fibroids, affects roughly half of all women aged 35 to 49. The non-cancerous tumors cause iron-defic...

Soy Compound May Fight Breast, Ovarian Cancers

...lable therapies, the glyceollins did not stimulate uterine cancer growth. The results of the research were published in the December 2006 issue of Clinical Cancer Research. Burow has collaborated in the past with the United States Department of Agriculture and other institutions to fully understand the pot...

Hormone Drug Type Makes Survival Difference in Advanced Breast Cancer

...aid. “Aromatase inhibitors carry almost no risk of uterine cancer, and while that rarely happens with tamoxifen, it does happen.” On the other hand, Perez said that aromatase inhibitors do carry a risk of increased joint aches and, more importantly, may cause bone loss. “The majority of patients do very we...

More Women Opting for Caesarean, Unaware of Consequences

...incision made// through the mother's abdominal and uterine walls. Originally a life-saving procedure for m...(abnormally firm attachment of the placenta to the uterine wall) and uterine rupture. During a normal, vaginal birth, maternal-behaviour and bonding hormone...

Plastics in Common Household Items May Cause Fertility Defects

... have with the HOXA10 gene, which is necessary for uterine development. Taylor and co-author Caroline C. Smith of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, found that BPA does, in fact, alter the expression of the HOXA 10 gene, implying that exposure to the popular plasti...

Study to Look at Aspirin as Aid to Conception, Healthy Pregnancy

...gent. It may aid in implantation of the egg in the uterine wall, and has potential for producing a positive effect on blood flow to the placenta. It may aid in reducing preeclampsia. This clinical trial provides an opportunity to determine the impact of low-dose aspirin on many pregnancy outcomes." The Eff...

Steroid Use Fails to Boost Pregnancy Rates in Infertility Treatments

...al issues may benefit from the hormonal effects on uterine receptivity. None of the studies included in the review focused specifically on these patient groups. Sorce-Newswise SRM...

Delayed Cutting of Umbilical Cord Has Benefits

...he umbilical cord and placenta for some more time, uterine contractions force more blood into its body. This is highly beneficial they say, as more blood means more red and white blood cells. While higher amounts of red blood cells means lesser chances of anemia and higher iron reserves, more white cells ...

New Placenta Screening for High-risk Pregnancies

...asures the hormone levels in the mother’s blood; a uterine artery Doppler blood flow test, which checks the maternal blood flow in the placenta; and an ultrasound of the placental shape. Of the 212 high-risk women in the study, 19 delivered early due to poor fetal growth. None of these women had normal place...

One-fifth of Obese Women Undergo Caesarean Due to Uterus Failure

... (3%). This blood loss was also attributed to poor uterine activity in the obese group. Heavy bleeding occurs...team found that less calcium was able to enter the uterine cells of the obese women to support uterus muscles in contracting during labor. Professor Wray ex...

Period Eliminating Pills

...leeding that takes place is due the buildup of the uterine lining.Drug maker Barr had introduced new pill called seasonale by which the women had period only once every three months. The sales only dented a small segment. The new pill lyberl is expected to have great sales as it would be launched with aggres...

MicroRNAs Can Be Tumor Suppressors

...ture of many medically significant tumors, such as uterine fibroids," explains Dr. Dutta. "It is very exciting to realize that microRNAs have an important role in suppressing the overexpression of HMGA2. Thus, they may also have a role in causing, and perhaps curing, a disease that is responsible for the vas...

Doctors Warned Against Encouraging Elective Caesareans

...on can accidentally nick the baby while making the uterine incision. Source-Medindi ANN/B...

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