Topic: United States
Women who want to reduce their risk of breast cancer may have heard they should avoid exposure to industrial chemicals but scientific evidence has so far not proven a direct link, said a US group Wednesday.The review of existing studies by the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A couple of yoga sessions a week could help ease sleep problems and other effects of menopause, a small study suggests.The study, reported in the journal Menopause, included postmenopausal women diagnosed with insomnia."We are not saying that ...
(Reuters) - Women who smoke may hit menopause about a year earlier than those who don't light up, according to a study that also notes an earlier menopause may influence the risk of getting bone and heart diseases.The study, which was carried ...
(Reuters) - Shares of Depomed Inc fell as much as 29 percent to their lowest in a year, after the specialty pharmaceutical company said its experimental drug to treat menopausal hot flashes showed mixed results in a late-stage study.The trial data for ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An herbal remedy widely used in Japan to ease menopause symptoms failed to show the same benefits in a clinical trial of U.S. women, researchers report.The study looked at the effects of keishi-bukuryo-gan, a mix of cinnamon ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women exposed to high levels of certain household-product chemicals may go through menopause at a younger age than other women, a new study finds.The chemicals in question are called perfluorocarbons, or PFCs, and they have historically been ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls who have a male twin seem more likely to put on a few extra pounds as they get older, suggests a new study.Previous studies have suggested that women with a male twin have higher levels of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who start hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as they begin to go through menopause have a higher risk of breast cancer than women who start taking the drugs later, researchers reported on Friday.The findings, published in the Journal of ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The antidepressant Lexapro significantly cut the number and severity of hot flashes in healthy menopausal women, offering a new way to treat the condition without hormones, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.Hormone replacement therapy or HRT is the only approved ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy have fallen more than 50 percent in the United States since 2001, but doctors are still inexplicably giving women high-dose pills linked to strokes and cancer, researchers reported on Thursday.The U.S. Food and Drug ...