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Weak Link Between Vitamin D Use and Women's Mortality Risks Found

In a new study conducted on postmenopausal women, researchers could find no positive health effects for using vitamin D. Previous studies suggested that consuming the chemical promotes bone health, and reduces females' risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and cancer, among other conditions. Last year the...

1 November 2011
10:46 GMT

New Therapy Could Assist Older Breast Cancer Patient

Investigators at the University of Sheffield and the University of Leeds, both in the United Kingdom, have discovered that a drug currently used to protect bones against damage also has positive effects in extending the survivability rates of elderly breast cancer patients. The unexpected connection could be used ...

26 September 2011
17:01 GMT

Menopause Hormone Therapy May Rise Breast Cancer Risk

A new study found that starting hormone therapy at around the time of menopause is associated with a higher risk of breast cancer, compared to starting it later. There is a lot of controversy about menopause and hormone-replacement therapy, whether or not the medication should be followed, and if so, when's t...

29 January 2011
05:49 GMT

Strong Menopause Symptoms Reduce Breast Cancer Risks

Hot flushes are among the menopause symptoms that women hate the most and still, having them could be a very good sign, since a new study conducted by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers concluded that having menopause symptoms reduces breast cancer risks by half.Indeed, it seems that women who have ve...

26 January 2011
08:57 GMT

Morphine Reduces Testosterone Levels

A single shot of morphine has long lasting effects on testosterone levels within the brain and the plasma of male rats, found a new study carried out by Anna Maria Aloisi, MD, of the Department of Physiology – Section of Neuroscience and Applied Physiology at the University of Siena, Italy, the Sbarro Institute...

4 November 2010
04:40 GMT

Genes Triggering Early Menopause Found

In the United Kingdom, the condition known as early menopause is affecting 5 percent of all women, and researchers have been trying to find methods of detecting which females are at risk for many years. Recently, a collaboration of scientists was able to identify a few genetic markers that appear to be linked with th...

18 October 2010
04:45 GMT

The Menopause in Men

Men's menopause is actually called late-onset hygonadism, and it is rather controversial as it is a very different syndrome than menopause in women.This middle-age event is inevitable in women and lately something very resembling starts to happen to men.There is an increasing number of men that go to the doctor&...

9 September 2010
06:42 GMT

Acupuncture Cannot Treat Hot Flushes

According to a joint scientific study by groups from Daejon and Busan, in South Korea, and Exeter, in the United Kingdom, acupuncture does not seem to work in alleviating “hot flushes,” also known as “night sweats,” a series of symptoms that occurs in women when they reach menopause, on accoun...

7 April 2009
10:31 GMT

Women Less Responsive to Heart Disease Drug Treatment

A new study carried out by researchers at the New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medial Center reveals that women don't respond as well as males do to drug treatment, such as losartan and atenolol, against cardiovascular diseases although the two drugs are successful in reducing the blood pressure in a...

2 July 2008
04:36 GMT

New Blood Analysis Tells When a Woman Will Enter Menopause

Every woman has her own biological clock, that tic-tac that signals to her that time has come for her to become a mom. That's because sooner or later - and this means from her 30s to her 60 - she will enter menopause, turning sterile. The age at which menopause will set in can be forecast realistically now, as r...

30 April 2008
14:06 GMT

The Heart Does not Affect Sexual Satisfaction in Women

Women experience lack of sexual satisfaction for various reasons: sex placed at the very bottom of their priorities list; lack of emotional implication; complexes about how they look; timidity or some drugs and antidepressants. But do not add the cardiovascular disease to this list, as signaled by a new study publish...

29 March 2008
04:59 GMT

Do Chimps Have Menopause?

Do chimps have senile grandmas? A comprehensive research has attempted to see whether wild female chimpanzees experience menopause or not.After 35 years of age, women experience a drop in their fertility as the oocytes (undeveloped eggs) reserve empties, and at an average age of 51, when only about 1000 oocytes remai...

14 December 2007
03:41 GMT

Why Are the Pygmies so Short? Because of Early Sex!

Pygmies make the smallest human race, but they are not dwarfs. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of just 1.45 m (4 ft 10 in) and women of 1.33 m (4 ft, 1in), still they do not represent a dwarf variant of the Black Africans. Their body proportions are the same with those of other humans, that�...

12 December 2007
02:52 GMT

Watch Out: Three Periods in a Woman's Life for Bad Mood!

Guys, record this, as these f**king hormonal fluctuations in your partners or female colleagues, during menstrual period, pregnancy and perimenopause, embitter your life. A new report, released by the Society for Women's Health Research, warns that normal hormonal transitions can induce in women from mild to sev...

3 December 2007
04:30 GMT

The Truth About the Breast-Enhancing Gum

This time, the Japanese did not come out on the market with talking robots or some weird 'tech-wonder'; this is perhaps one of the most unusual inventions. Those Japanese girls chewing gum are in fact saving thousands of dollars meant for breast augmentation surgeries. The Bust-Up gum is a miracle, since yo...

7 November 2007
14:06 GMT

What's the Purpose of Menopause in Women?

We are a very odd species in many ways. For example, female animals too experience menopause and become sterile after a certain age, but this means a very close end to their lives. But women start releasing mature eggs at puberty age, and menstruation is installed at around the age of 13. By the age of 50, the egg re...

1 November 2007
09:37 GMT

Vaginal Atrophy and Vaginal Dryness Means 54% of the Menopausal Women Have Less Sex

That's nature. While the single condition for a 90-year-old is an erection to procreate, women of 35 can be already sterile, due to natural biological clock or surgery, chemotherapy or radiation. This is menopause, when the menstrual period stops and the ovaries permanently stop producing ovules. Menopause is di...

18 August 2007
04:46 GMT

Good Sleep Means Good Sex

Bed is good for sex especially if you take a good advantage of it to have a good sleep. A new study revealed that women accusing lower sex drive during menopause are more likely to report disturbed sleep, depression symptoms and night sweats (hot flashes during sleep). This is the first time sleep disturbance has bee...

9 June 2007
05:38 GMT

Men Can Experience Hot Flashes, Just Like Women in Menopause

That's too much. Besides the mental suffering due to the loss of sexuality, the hormonal changes linked to menopause also suppose a physical ordeal: the hot flashes. Hot flashes are commonly perceived as a feeling of intense heat with sweating and rapid heartbeat, and - in case of older women - may typically las...

16 April 2007
05:03 GMT


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