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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Estrogen could help women diagnosed with advanced colon cancer to survive longer, a new study out in the journal Clinical Cancer Research suggests. While younger, presumably premenopausal women lived longer after being diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who add more fat to their frames as they approach menopause will have a harder time with hot flashes, a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows. People used to think that fat helped ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Gabapentin, a drug used to treat seizures, improves the quality of sleep in menopausal women bothered by hot flashes, University of Rochester Medical Center researchers report in the Journal of Women's Health. Approximately 40 percent of menopausal ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women taking the next puff of a cigarette might consider this: smoking 100 or more cigarettes may substantially increase their odds of developing breast cancer, researchers report. Previous studies linked regular exercise, limiting alcohol intake, and avoiding ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthy women who put on weight between the premenopausal and postmenopausal years risk losing nerve cells in the brain, research suggests. Gaining weight is a "highly modifiable" risk factor that may be targeted to prevent or slow ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Coffee and general caffeine intake may affect a woman's levels of estrogen and other sex hormones, a new study suggests -- offering a potential explanation for findings that link caffeine to certain cancers. Several studies have found ...