NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Events surrounding a baby girl's birth may affect the age at which she later goes through menopause. In a study of more than 20,000 middle-aged Puerto Rican and American women, researchers found that exposure in the womb to the man-made estrogen, diethylstilbestrol (DES), as well as certain characteristics of the mom, had small effects ...

Routine screening for osteoporosis should include all younger postmenopausal women who have at least the same chance of a bone break as an older woman, a government task force said Monday. Also, for the first time, the group weighed whether men should be checked for the bone-thinning ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Researchers have wondered whether replacing the small amount of testosterone women stop producing after having hysterectomies could improve the memory loss many postmenopausal women experience. But testosterone treatment may not improve women's memory skills after such surgeries, according to a new study, suggesting that it may not help other women after menopause either. Women who ...

A simple blood test can give an accurate pointer of when a woman will hit the menopause, according to research to be presented at a fertility conference here on Monday. If confirmed by other scientists, the test devised by Iranian doctors would be a boon for women seeking to plan when to start a family, the European Society of Human ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian scientists say they have developed a way of using a simple blood test to predict accurately when women will reach the menopause, offering the chance for women to plan for family and career far in advance. The test, which measures levels of a hormone produced by cells in the ovaries, was able to predict the age at ...

Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward ...

Women who have menopause early have more than twice the risk of cardiovascular trouble, heart attack and stroke later in life, new research released Monday found. Researchers in this case defined early menopause as coming before the age of 46 either naturally or with the surgical removal of both ovaries. "It is important for women to know that early menopause ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who go through menopause early, before age 46, may have more than twice the risk of having a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event later in life, researchers reported on Monday. The risk was the same even when women took hormone replacement therapy, which doctors once prescribed expressly to prevent heart disease, the researchers said at ...

(Reuters) - GTx Inc said its experimental drug to treat muscle loss was effective in increasing lean body mass and leg muscle strength in post-menopausal women. The trial tested the drug Ostarine in 88 post-menopausal women, who received either a 3 mg dose of the drug along with two doses of another drug MK-3984, or a dummy drug. This is the ...

(Reuters) - GTx Inc said its experimental drug to treat muscle loss was effective in increasing lean body mass and leg muscle strength in post-menopausal women. The trial tested the drug Ostarine in 88 post-menopausal women, who received either a 3 mg dose of the drug along with two doses of another drug MK-3984, or a dummy drug. This is the ...