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Women & Sex – Not Just About Hormones
Oct. 25, 2006 -- As a woman nears menopause, her relationships -- not just her hormones -- may affect her sex life. That's according to two new studies on sexual dysfunction in women approaching menopause. The studies were presented at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's annual meeting i
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From Fertile to Frilly
Oct. 11, 2006 -- Move over, The Devil Wears Prada. Make way for The Egg Goes Glam. A new study shows that young women in relationships may dress a bit more enticingly as they reach the ovulation phase of their monthly fertility cycle – the time when they are most fertile. The 30 college women studie
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Yaz Approved for Severe PMS
Oct. 6, 2006 -- Yaz has become the first birth control pill to gain FDA approval for treating premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), the most severe form of PMS. The FDA based its action on clinical trial results showing that Yaz cut PMDD symptoms by at least half. Women taking Yaz reported twice a
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Overtime Work May Be Worse for Women
July 12, 2006 -- Burning the midnight oil at work? Those extra hours affect women worse than men, a new British study shows. So says Daryl O'Connor, PhD. He's a senior lecturer in health psychology at England's University of Leeds. O'Connor and colleagues studied 193 men and 229 women who were, on a
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Evista: Help for Breast Cancer, Heart?
July 12, 2006 -- Hopes that the osteoporosis drug Evista would offer women a clearly safer alternative to tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention have been dashed by findings from a long-awaited study, researchers say. The postmenopausal women in the trial all had risk factors for coronary heart dise
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Thyroid Health: How Much Iodine Helps?
June 28, 2006 -- A Chinese study links mild thyroid symptoms to too much iodine. But a Harvard expert says Americans need more iodine, not less. Iodine is the key ingredient in the important hormones made by the thyroid gland in the throat. But your body doesn't make iodine -- you have to get some i
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Most Older Women Don't Get Mammograms
June 20, 2006 -- Only about half of older white women and even fewer older black, Asian, and Hispanic women in the U.S. get regular mammograms -- a rate lower than had been thought, new research suggests. Estimates based on self-reporting from women and widely relied upon by the medical community ha
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Erotic Images Rev Up Women's Brains
June 16, 2006 -- When a woman says, "You turn me on," it may be her brain that's talking, as well as her hormones. A new study shows looking at erotic images causes a rapid increase in women's electrical brainwave activity, effectively turning their brains on. The brains' electrical activity fired a
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ACE Inhibitors May Boost Birth Defects
June 7, 2006 -- The FDA is encouraging women who are taking a class of drugs called ACE inhibitors, which lower blood pressure, to reconsider the use of those drugs before or during pregnancy pregnancy. That advice comes in the wake of a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine showing
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Drinking for a Better Brain?
June 7, 2006 -- A new study shows moderate drinking by women aged 65 and older may have benefits for the brain. Don’t skip over that word “may.” The full picture on drinking and thinking is still a bit fuzzy. The study appears in the early online edition of the journal Neuroepidemiology. Researchers
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