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Predicting Premature Birth
April 16, 2007 — With pre-term births a major international health problem, scientists are reporting an advance toward developing a much-needed, noninvasive test for predicting when pregnant women are about to ... > full story -
Effect Of Hormone Therapy On Risk Of Heart Disease May Vary By Age And Years Since Menopause
April 3, 2007 — Secondary analyses of findings from the Women's Health Initiative suggest that women who begin hormone therapy within 10 years of menopause may have less risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) due to ... > full story -
Older Mothers More Likely Than Younger Mothers To Deliver By Caesarean
March 8, 2007 — Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have found that older mothers with normal, full-term pregnancies -- particularly first-time older mothers -- were more likely to undergo ... > full story -
Hormone Therapy May Be Safer With Patch Than Pill
February 20, 2007 — Transdermal estrogen, delivered by a patch or gel, is not associated with an increased risk of blood clots in veins, according to French researchers reporting in Circulation: Journal of the American ... > full story -
Estrogen Gene Affects Risk Of Breast Cancer, But Not CVD
February 20, 2007 — A large Danish study rebuts the accepted idea that differences in an estrogen gene (ESR1) affect the risk of heart attack and stroke in response to hormone replacement therapy. However, the study -- ... > full story -
Plastics In Common Household Items May Cause Fertility Defects
February 15, 2007 — The contaminant bisphenol-A (BPA) -- widely used to make many plastics found in food storage containers and dental products -- can have long-term effects in female development, according to a recent ... > full story -
Standard Treatment More Effective Than Diabetes Drug For Achieving Pregnancy In Fertility Disorder
February 7, 2007 — Metformin, a drug used to treat diabetes and thought to hold great promise at overcoming the infertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is less useful for helping women with the ... > full story -
Estrogen Therapy For Hot Flushes Challenged: Progestin As Effective As Risk-Laden Estrogen
February 4, 2007 — Women seeking treatment for hot flushes can avoid health risks associated with estrogen by taking medroxyprogesterone, now demonstrated to be equally as effective as estrogen, according to research ... > full story -
Estrogen Curbs Appetite In Same Way As The Hormone Leptin
January 3, 2007 — Estrogen regulates the brain's energy metabolism in the same way as the hormone leptin, leading the way to a viable approach to tackling obesity in people resistant to leptin, researchers at Yale ... > full story -
An End To Periods? Many Women Opt To Stop Their Menstrual Cycles
January 2, 2007 — When birth control pills first hit the market in the 1960s, women generally took three weeks of active contraceptive pills followed by one week of placebos or no pills. Now, many gynecologists ... > full story
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