Topic: National Institutes Of Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone replacement therapy may work slightly better than soy at reducing menopausal hot flashes, a new study says.Women who took such hormones had fewer hot flashes, on average, than women who took soy - and both had ...
Most people erroneously believe that once they are fully grown their bones don't change anymore. As people age, the rate at which bone is lost may begin to outstrip the rate at which new tissue can replace it which leads to lowering ...
What it is A cornerstone of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture involves inserting hair-thin needles into the skin at specific points to realign the body's energy, or qi. The National Institutes of Health cite it as a useful treatment for osteoarthritis, asthma, and ...
Allium sativum - garlic is thought to be a diuretic, antifungal and antibacterial. One study found that ginkgo performed just as well as the recently developed pharmaceutical drug, Donepezil, used to treat Alzheimer's dementia. Yet, the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory (GEM) study ...
As a busy woman on the go, taking a simple multivitamin that contains the usual alphabet soup of vitamins and minerals can help to balance our diets and ensure proper nutrition. Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) GLA is another supplement that women can take ...
As women age and reach the perimenopause stage in life theirovaries gradually produce less estrogen. The Woman's Health Initiative began in 1991, consisting of aset of clinical trials to study the long term effects of hormone replacetherapy (HRT). InThe results for women ...
A new study contradicts the conventional wisdom about a common condition called primary ovarian insufficiency that can cause infertility in young women.. The findings raise "the possibility of developing treatments for the infertility that accompanies the condition," Dr. Alan E. Guttmacher, acting ...
New analyses from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) confirm that combination hormone therapy increases the risk of heart disease in healthy postmenopausal women. ers report a trend toward an increased risk of heart disease during the first two years of hormone therapy ...
Mechanisms underlying this association are poorly understood. To determine the effects of obesity on mammary tumor growth, nonovariectomized and ovariectomized C57BL/6 mice of various body weights (lean, overweight, and obese) were implanted subcutaneously with mammary tumor cells from syngeneic Wnt-1 transgenic mice. ...
Guidelines to help doctors diagnose and treat a menopause-like condition in girls and women younger than age 40 has been developed by a U.S. government scientist.. Dr. Lawrence Nelson, head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Integrative and Reproductive Medicine Unit, ...
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