Menstrual in Medical News

Xanodyne's New Drug Application for the Treatment of Heavy Menstrual Bleeding (Menorrhagia) Accepted for Filing with a Priority Review Classification

NEWPORT, Ky., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for filing and granted priority review status for its investigational proprietary formulation of tranexamic acid for the treatment of women with menorr...

Mayo researchers offer new insight into effectiveness of procedure to stop heavy menstrual bleeding

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Experts estimate that 20 percent of women experience excessive or prolonged menstrual bleeding at some time during their lives, particularly as they approach menopause. A new, less invasive procedure called global endometrial ablation (GEA) preserves the uterus, while decreasing...

Taking Control: Future Therapies for a Host of Serious Diseases May Be Found in Women's Menstrual Blood

C'elle Enables Women to Easily Collect and Preserve Vital Stem Cells During Their Menstrual Flow; Potential for Future Anti-Aging and Sports Medicine Therapies OLDSMAR, Fla., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With today's hectic lifestyle, where most women are juggl...

Delayed Sleep Pattern Tied to Irregular Menstrual Cycles

Cramps, mood swings, other symptoms reported by more than two-thirds of women with disorder FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) -- Having delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) appears to be linked to irregular menstrual cycles and increased premenstrual symptoms in women, according to a n...

Safe to Stop the Flow?: Differing Attitudes Found Between Women and Doctors Concerning Menstrual Suppression

Two Thirds of Women Interested in Stopping their Periods, But Unsure About Medical Implications PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than two thirds of women in a national survey say that they are interested in suppressing their menstrual periods but many of them aren't sure ...

Differing attitudes found between women and doctors concerning menstrual suppression

PHILADELPHIA More than the two thirds of the women in a national survey say that they are interested in suppressing their menstrual periods but many of them arent sure if its safe. Yet when physicians are polled, 97 percent say that continuous oral contraceptive therapy to suppress menstruation i...

Survivors of Rare Ovarian Cancer may Retain Menstrual Function and Reproductive Ability

A new prospective study suggests that ovarian germ cell tumour patients treated with platinum-based chemotherapy and fertility-sparing surgery may retain their menstrual function and reproductive ability. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, also found that despite ha...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

Menstrual suppression has been recommended for medical conditions such as endometriosis, but it is also being proposed as a lifestyle choice for women who dislike menstruation or find it inconvenient. But is menstrual suppression safe and is it a reasonable lifestyle choice, asks Paula De...

New Pill to Suppress Menstrual Bleeding Indefinitely

The liberated woman is certainly looking for ways and means of limiting or even stopping altogether monthly bleeding. Only the regimen available is a bit complicated . Offering a way out Wyeth, US drug manufacturers, have come out with Lybrel and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expec...

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

Menstrual suppression has been recommended for medical conditions such as endometriosis, but it is also being proposed as// a lifestyle choice for women who dislike menstruation or find it inconvenient. But is menstrual suppression safe and is it a reasonable lifestyle choice, asks Paula Der...

Having OCP’s All Year Round to Eliminate Menstrual Cycles Not Unsafe: Says Stud

Researchers have shown that oral contraceptives taken on a long term basis to do away with menstrual cycle is safe to use.They claim that it is both safe and effective.The study// was published in the journal” Contraception”. There are low dose OCP’s in the market that help to reduce the number of...

MRI Shows Emotional Changes During Menstrual Cycle

Brain scans have recently revealed that mental processes can change across the menstrual cycle. // The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been implicated in the representation of emotional stimuli, assignment of emotional valence/salience to stimuli, stimulus-reinforcement association learning, moti...

New Treatment Option For Menstrual Migraine

Nearly one in five adult women experience migraine headaches compared with one in 20 adult men. Menstrual migraine is when the headache // happens around the same time as menstruation each month. Many women claim they get a migraine each month when they menstruate, now a new study confirms this hap...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

According to a new study, moderate exercise may extend the time a woman has between her menstrual periods. The research supports one theory on why regular physical activity has been linked to a lower breast cancer risk. //Some evidence suggests that hormonal changes brought on by exercise may help ...

Cryo-Cell to Present Novel Adult Stem Cell Research During 2009 China Medical Biotech Forum

...n the proliferative ability of stem cells found in menstrual blood (known as MenSCs) during the Fourth China Me...ted by Cryo-Cell International, who discovered the menstrual stem cells. The data show that MenSCs have the cap...cardiogenic cells. These findings demonstrate that menstrual stem cells are easily expandable to clinical relev...

FDA Approves INVEGA(R) SUSTENNA(TM) for the Acute and Maintenance Treatment of Schizophrenia

...vels of a hormone called prolactin and blood levels of prolactin remain high with continued use. This may result in some side effects including missed menstrual periods, leakage of milk from the breasts, development of breasts in men, or problems with erection. Some people may feel faint, dizzy, or may ...

INVEGA(R) Approved as the First and Only Treatment for Schizoaffective Disorder

...vels of a hormone called prolactin and blood levels of prolactin remain high with continued use. This may result in some side effects including missed menstrual periods, leakage of milk from the breasts, development of breasts in men, or problems with erection. INVEGA(R) should be used cautiously in peo...

Photos: One Million Patients Choose Hologic's NovaSure(R) System Over Hysterectomy

...tient treatment for women suffering from excessive menstrual bleeding--has passed the one million mark for numb...in/prnh/20090728/NY52640LOGO ) Excessive menstrual bleeding is a debilitating condition that affect... a safe, effective and quick solution to excessive menstrual bleeding that does not require major surgery," sai...

Cryo-Cell Announces C'elle(SM) Research and Development Collaboration for Chronic Wound Healing Management

...earch studies using Cryo-Cell's proprietary C'elle menstrual stem cell (MenSC) technology. The goal of these co...gate the potential benefits of new ways to utilize menstrual blood stem cells in advanced therapeutic applicati...h will determine if the C'elle stem cells found in menstrual blood may potentially mimic the wound healing proc...

Ovary removal may increase lung cancer risk

...factors may play such a role." Women were considered menopausal if their menstrual periods had stopped naturally, surgically (by hysterectomy with bilateral s...therapy. Women who had at least one remaining ovary and who still had their menstrual periods at the time of diagnosis/interview were classified as premenopausal...

C'elle(SM) Featured on ABC Action News in Tampa Bay

...hat of their families. Banking stem cells found in menstrual blood is one way in which women are looking to saf...otential future illnesses, conditions or injuries. menstrual blood has been shown to contain self-renewing stem...t and preserve stem cells harvested from their own menstrual blood. Featured in a recent healthcare segment on...

Menopause Is More Than A Hot Flash

...dents' propensity to be online. A full methodology is available. About Menopause Menopause is the time in a woman's life when the menstrual period ceases and the ovaries permanently stop releasing eggs. Menopause is considered complete when a woman has been without her period for a full y...

Acupuncture, Exercise May Ease Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

... Common condition can cause menstrual woes, infertility, researchers note TH...rone -- and often develop ovarian cysts, irregular menstrual cycles and infertility. A key feature of the disea... Those who received acupuncture also had regular menstrual cycles, while the exercise and control groups show...

Early Menstruation Lowers Odds of Surviving Ovarian Cancer

...men with ovarian cancer, those who had their first menstrual period before the age of 12 and who had the most menstrual cycles over a lifetime are more likely to die of t... course have a significant impact on the number of menstrual cycles a woman had had, said study author Cheryl R...

MRI May Help Find Deep Endometriosis

... which affects about 5 million women in the United States, can cause chronic pain in the pelvis and lower back, lead to painful sexual intercourse and menstrual cramps, and result in fatigue and infertility. Minimally invasive laparoscopy can treat superficial endometriosis, but deeper lesions, known as subper...

MRI Accurately Depicts Deep Endometriosis

...oximately 5 million American women have endometriosis. Symptoms include chronic pelvic pain, lower back pain, painful sexual intercourse, painful menstrual cramps, fatigue and infertility. There are two types of endometriosis: superficial and subperitoneal (deep). Deep endometriosis infiltrates areas...

MRI accurately depicts deep endometriosis

... approximately 5 million American women have endometriosis. Symptoms include chronic pelvic pain, lower back pain, painful sexual intercourse, painful menstrual cramps, fatigue and infertility. There are two types of endometriosis: superficial and subperitoneal (deep). Deep endometriosis infiltrates areas ...

Hormones May Affect Neurological Disease Risk

...arch suggests. Significant estrogen level changes occur at various stages of women's lives, including adolescence and menopause, and as a result of menstrual cycles. The onset or exacerbation of neurological diseases are most likely to occur at these times, said researchers at the University of Texas Medica...

Obesity Greatly Raises Endometrial Cancer Risk

...han 35 who were under 45 at the time of their last menstrual period had a 22 times higher risk of developing en...ormal weight. In women older than 45 at their last menstrual period, those with BMIs above 35 had 3.7 times gre...25 who were also under 45 at the age of their last menstrual period had about a sixfold increase in risk vs. th...

Ovu-Trac(R) Home Test Kit From OvumOptics Predicts Ovulation with 96.2% Accuracy

...rate Fertility Calculator It is a myth that most women have a 28-day menstrual cycle, and unfortunately most fertility calendars base their ovulation calc...unting forward is only useful for those with the "average" 28-day menstrual cycle. As a result, many women following these instructions will ovulate w...

MORE WOMEN SHUN HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY Garden of Life Offers a Natural Solution with Oceans 3™ Healthy Hormones™

...n have been searching for something non-synthetic for symptomatic relief of menstrual and menopausal woes. Garden of Life, Inc., ( www.gardenoflife.com ) a leade...n have been searching for something non-synthetic for symptomatic relief of menstrual and menopausal woes. Garden of Life , Inc., a leader in the Natural Produc...

Heavy Periods May Be Due to a Clotting Disorder

... problem. The guidelines aren't meant only for doctors. Women with heavy menstrual cycles should watch for these signs as well because about 25 percent of wom...inually experience abnormal reproductive tract bleeding, specifically heavy menstrual bleeding, to be alert to these other signs and approach their physicians ab...

Xanodyne Announces New President/CEO and Completes $38 Million Equity Financing

...be focused on aggressively executing our commercialization plans for Zipsor(TM) (diclofenac potassium - acute pain) and XP12B (tranexamic acid - heavy menstrual bleeding). The closing of our financing demonstrates the continued commitment of our investor group to complete the NDA process and execute the launch...

Experts reach consensus on diagnosis and treatment of bleeding disorders in women

...reproductive tract is a naturally occurring event during menstruation and childbirth, women who exhibit menorrhagia, or excessive bleeding after their menstrual cycle, may have underlying diseases that are underdiagnosed. In order to address important issues related to the diagnosis and management of reproduct...

Young Ballerinas May Face Heart, Bone Risks

...ere amenorrheic, 23 percent had low bone mass density, and 64 percent had abnormal artery dilation. "It was unknown if professional dancers without menstrual periods have evidence of vascular dysfunction, yet some characteristics ... were common in this group. Eighty-six percent had one or more components...

FDA Approves Lamictal(R)XR(TM); An Extended-Release Once-Daily, New Generation Treatment for Epilepsy

...provider about any side effect that bothers them or does not go away; patients should tell their healthcare provider if they have any changes in their menstrual pattern, such as breakthrough bleeding, while taking Lamictal XR and birth control pills. These are not all the possible side effects of Lamictal X...

Women Who Run May Benefit From Extra Folic Acid

... running at least 20 miles a week for the past year. All the women were healthy, but six of them had reduced vascular function and irregular or absent menstrual periods. The researchers measured the women's vascular function before and after four to six weeks of treatment with 10 milligrams a day of folic a...

Fighting "Brain Fog": How the Right Hormones Can Improve Mental Sharpness for Women

...irms that women do in fact start to lose mental sharpness during "peri-menopause" - the five-to-six year period leading up to a woman's last menstrual cycle. University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers studied more than 2,000 women aged 42 to 52, testing them on cognitive skills such as v...

Childhood Sexual Abuse Might Spur Early Periods

...hey were children. The study found that women who suffered one to three incidents of childhood sexual abuse were 26 percent more likely to have had menstrual periods before age 12, while those who experienced four or more incidents of childhood sexual abuse were 34 percent more likely to have had early peri...

Headache Sufferers Turn to Neurologychannel for Reliable Information about New Headache Treatments

...visit neurologychannel find trustworthy information about the most common types of headache, including tension headache; cluster headache; migraine ; menstrual migraine, which affects women and is caused by hormonal changes associated with menstruation; and rebound headache, which can be caused by over-the-co...