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Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...The “ferning” patterns indicate fertility, so if a woman does not see a “ferning” pattern, she may incorrectly surmise she’s not likely to conceive on that day. Even the most accurate of the three systems tested was wrong at least half of the time and the worst one was wrong nearly three-quarters of the ti...

Understanding Restless Legs Syndrome

... for women who had children. The more children the woman gave birth to, the more likely she was to have restless legs syndrome. Researchers also reported people with restless legs syndrome had significantly lower quality of life scores than those without the syndrome. This means the disease affects the eve...

Predicting The Risk Of Preeclampsia During Pregnancy

Preeclampsia usually occurs without warning when a woman develops dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy.// About 5 percent of pregnant women are affected by the condition. Many also begin to excrete protein in their urine. If the condition progresses to eclampsia, potentially life-threatening s...

The Existing Controversy of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...de, "A decision analysis tailored to an individual woman would be more appropriate in clinical practice than a population based approach."...

Understanding The Link Between Hormone Replacement and Respiratory Disease

Taking hormones after menopause could put a woman at increased risk of developing asthma, report researchers // ,however hormone replacement doesn’t appear to affect chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk. The incidence of both asthma and COPD are rising in the developed world. About 5 p...

Restoration Of Fertility After Cancer Treatment

...therapy, radiation and radical surgery can cause a woman to experience premature menopause and diminish her...etermine if they could preserve her fertility. The woman suffered from breast cancer before experiencing chemotherapy-induced menopause. Researchers transpla...

The Best Way To Decrease Post-Mammogram Stress

...f all screening mammograms are abnormal, meaning a woman must come back for a follow-up mammogram. Many abnormal mammograms turn out to be false-positives, meaning they do not result in a breast cancer diagnosis within one year. Even when follow-ups and evaluations rule out breast cancer, women frequently ...

Problems Associated With Iron Deficiency

...Researchers say they found that, the more anemic a woman was, the longer it took her to complete the tasks. However, after the iron-deficient and anemic women took 60 milligrams of iron for four months, their scores significantly improved. The women who took iron supplements also completed the tasks in l...

Bone Marrow Cells Could Yield A New Lease of Life

...ning the women had transgender brain tissue.In the woman who survived the longest after the transplant, evidence of the male cells was present in nerve cells as well. While emphasizing that much more work should be done to confirm these findings, researchers believe that bone marrow cells may one day be us...

Fish Found To Improve Fetal Growth

... rate during pregnancy. They found the more fish a woman ate, the less likely she was to deliver a low birth weight baby. Researchers say that low birth weight normally occurs in one in 10 pregnancies. In women who ate no fish, that rate increased to one in eight, or 13 percent. Nearly 12,000 women were ...

The Effects Of Fish On Pregnant Women Questioned

...hma. In fact, researchers say the more oily fish a woman consumed, the less likely her child was to develop asthma. Children with non-asthmatic mothers did not benefit from having their mothers eat oily fish during pregnancy. However, mothers who ate fish sticks during pregnancy were twice as likely to ha...

High-Protein Diet Found To Reduce Fertility

A high-protein diet, could make it hard for a woman to get pregnant, say researchers based on finding of a recent study .// For the study researchers looked at how the maternal diet prior to conception affects subsequent embryo implantation in the womb and development of the fetus. They found that ...

Thawed Ovarian Transplant

When a woman is diagnosed with cancer, she often has to undergo...ts say they removed and froze the left ovary of a woman who was about to undergo treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Two years later, they transplanted six st...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

... found to be less active in tumor tissue, then the woman can undergo chemotherapy earlier in the course of her disease and possibly avoid progression. Researchers conducted the study by comparing ALCAM activity in frozen samples of 120 tumors and in 32 samples of normal breast tissue. Women who had died ...

Hypnosis Can Help Individuals Quit Smoking

...omen should shy away from. If a smoker -- a man or woman -- is strongly motivated to try a hypnotic approach, he or she will probably be as successful with that approach as any other. Some experts believe, because of the weight gain associated with stopping smoking, women may be less motivated to quit the...

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...ort to countries around the world to ensure that a woman does not die while giving birth to her child. Th...m training skilled birth attendants who can help a woman give birth safely, to the very basic issue of recording the cause of a woman's death. WHO estimates ...

Hormone therapy may affect heart attack severity in women

...nt of heart damage that occurs if a postmenopausal woman has a heart attack. Dr Williams went on to say that it is gravely impotent to know this information as many women take combination therapy drugs for menopausal symptoms or to protect their bones even though the drugs are no longer recommended to prev...

Hormone Therapy Could Increase Ones Risk For Breast Cancer

...nopausal women between ages 50 and 79. The average woman was 62 years old and 12-years post-menopausal. Half of the women received estrogen plus progestin, and the other half received a placebo. All had a baseline mammogram at the beginning of the study and a follow-up mammogram one or two years later. Th...

The Bio-probe –“ Boon to women ?

...-probe has to be inserted into the vagina, and the woman herself can do it. The probe remains inserted for 10 seconds while it measures electrical resistance. It is so small that women would feel more comfortable using the device than with than taking up the routine Pap smear that is being done. The Pap ...

A case for euthanasia

...aving the life of Terri Schiavo, the brain damaged woman whose feeding tube was discontinued on friday following a order by U.S. District Judge James Whittemore was denied the request by Schiavo's parents, who sought to restore the feeding and hydration to the 41 year old woman. The judge said that the par...

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