Topic: United States

AP News | 23 days ago
US government task force urges more postmenopausal women to be screened for osteoporosis

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 ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 26 days ago

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 ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 38 days ago

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 ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 55 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who want to use hormone replacement therapy may be less likely to have a stroke if they use low-dose patches instead of pills, Canadian researchers reported on Thursday. Their study of British women showed that those who used estrogen patches to control symptoms of menopause did not have any higher risk of stroke than women who did ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 132 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Exercise may help older women maintain their bone density, but adding the supplement black cohosh to the routine does not bring any extra benefits, a new study suggests. Researchers found that among 128 postmenopausal women they studied for one year, those who were randomly assigned to regularly exercise generally maintained their bone density. In contrast, women ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 133 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite supplement makers' claims and popular perceptions, the benefits of soy in fighting hot flashes in women going through menopause remain unproven, according to a new analysis of 19 studies. Soy contains estrogen-like compounds, and researchers have proposed that the amount of soy a woman consumes may influence her risk of having hot flashes and night ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 205 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite some hopeful hints from earlier research, a new study finds that older women on hormone replacement therapy may not gain any protection from disability as they age. Researchers have speculated that waning estrogen levels may contribute to muscle loss and other declines in physical function as women age. Muscle cells have receptors for estrogen, and ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 236 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who use certain forms of hormone replacement therapy seem to perform better on tests of memory and mental speed than other women do, a new study finds. In a four-year study of 3,130 French women age 65 and older, researchers found that those currently on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) performed better on certain ...

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AP News | 276 days ago
Raging hormones: Unproven 'bioidenticals' for menopause contain estrogen too, experts say

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional series examining their use and potential risks ...

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Reuters US Online Report Health News | 299 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The risk for major depression more than doubles while women are going through menopause and afterward, according to research presented this week at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in San Diego. Recent studies have suggested that the risk for depressive symptoms in women increases in midlife, around the time of menopause, perhaps ...

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Mo. ballot measures tests federal health care law

Miami Herald | 4 hours ago

More than 1 million people are expected to participate in what amounts to the largest-ever public opinion poll on the nation's new health care law ...

Kids adopted by same-sex couples 'thriving': researcher

ABC 27 Milwaukee (WKOW) | 4 hours ago

Children adopted by gay or lesbian parents develop as well as those adopted by heterosexual couples, a new study has found.. . Researchers looked ...

Honeywell exec says firm will stay in New Jersey

Houston Chronicle | 5 hours ago

Email Close [X] . Honeywell International's chief executive says the technology and manufacturing company will keep its headquarters in New Jersey ...

US Passports still vulnerable to fraud

Boston Globe | 5 hours ago

Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver's licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work.. . For the second time in two ...

Feds OK 'historic' deal to tap Utah gas field with ...

FOX News | 5 hours ago

An energy company received federal approval Thursday to open one of Utah's biggest natural gas fields by agreeing to use new technology to drill ...

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