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161. Herbal Relief for Menstrual Cramps?
     

     Oct. 17, 2007 -- Chinese herbal medicine may trump other treatments for menstrual cramps. That news, published online today in The Cochrane Library, comes with a caution that the results need to be checked. A team of scientists reviewed 39 studies on dysmenorrhea (painful periods) that included mens

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162. Worldwide Abortion Rates Down
     

     Oct. 12, 2007 -- Four million fewer abortions were performed worldwide in 2003 than in 1995, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The study includes international abortion statistics from 1995 and 2003, the most recent year for which abortion statistics are available in many countries.

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163. Women's Cancer Prevention Falls Short
     

     Oct. 2, 2007 -- U.S. women could stand to upgrade their cancer prevention efforts, a new poll shows. The poll, which included 800 women, comes from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Prevention magazine. "Our findings should serve as a wake-up call to women," Jennifer Irvine Vid

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164. Natural Orifice Surgery: No Scars
     

     Sept. 17, 2007 - French doctors who report removing a woman's gallbladder through her vagina say such "no-scar surgery" may be the wave of the future. At least two U.S. women -- one at New York Presbyterian Hospital and another at the University of California San Diego Medical Center -- have undergo

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165. New Tampon Cuts Toxic Shock Risk
     

     Sept. 18, 2007 (Chicago) -- Researchers have developed a novel tampon that appears to cut the risk of menstrual toxic shock syndrome (TSS). The key to its success: a fiber finish called glycerol monolaurate (GML) that reduces the production of the toxin that causes menstrual TSS, says researcher Pat

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166. Vitamin E May Lower Blood Clot Risk
     

     Sept. 10, 2007 -- Vitamin E proved to be a bust for preventing heart disease and cancer in a widely publicized study in women, but intriguing results from the same trial suggest a role for the vitamin in reducing the risk of life-threatening blood clots. Researchers warn that the findings must be co

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167. Women Prefer Working Outside the Home
     

     Sept. 6, 2007 -- If you were free to take a job outside the home or stay at home to take care of family and house, what would you prefer? The Gallup Organization posed that hypothetical question to about 1,000 U.S. adults last month in a telephone poll about work. Among women, 58% said they would pr

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168. Ovary Removal May Up Dementia Risk
     

     Aug. 29, 2007 -- New research is raising important questions about the protective benefits of estrogen on the brain and the long-term risks of removing the ovaries before menopause. Women in a 30-year follow-up study who had ovaries surgically removed before menopause had nearly double the risk for

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169. Sex Differences Overrated?
     

     Aug. 21, 2007 -- Many studies claim that a genetic mutation causes more disease in one sex than in another -- but most are wrong. This provocative statement comes from Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos, MD, of the University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece, and colleagues. It's a shot across the bow fo

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170. Caffeine May Help Women's Memory
     

     Aug. 6, 2007 -- The caffeine in three daily cups of coffee or tea may help older women preserve their memory, a new French study shows. Researchers included Karen Ritchie, PhD, of the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Montpellier, France. Ritchie's team studied so

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