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Mistresses of the universe: can women save the world?
in Sox First, on July 13, 2009
...ton Post reports there is a growing view that global economic recovery will need a healthy dose of estrogen. It cites research from accounting giant Ernst & Young showing that companies with more...
PREMARIN® (conjugated estrogens) Vaginal Cream For Post-Menopause Vaginal Dryness: Approved by the FDA
in Well Woman Blog, on March 31, 2009
... dyspareunia . This condition can result from vaginal changes, which can occur when a woman's estrogen level decreases during menopause and her vaginal walls become thinner and less lubricated.
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Weight, Older Women and Breast Cancer Risk
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 26, 2008
...rchers concluded.
"Women who are above their healthy weight have higher levels of circulating estrogens," noted study lead author Dr. Karla Kerlikowske, director of the Women Veterans&#...
Hair Loss After Pregnancy
in Next Nine Months, on August 12, 2008
...9;t worry, this is but normal, and is due to hormonal changes. During pregnancy, the high levels of estrogen kept your hair from falling out, and now that your estrogen levels are getting back to norm...
An Aspirin A DAy: Keeps Breast Cancer Away?
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 1, 2008
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Daily intake of aspirin may lower women's risk of developing estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancers only and not in other types.
Around 75% of breast cancers are estrogen r...
Oncology Diagnostics By AviaraDx
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 15, 2008
...have been launched for the classification of metastatic cancer and identification of patients with estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer who are at high risk of recurrence and also those unli...
Taxol+Avastin Greatly Slowed Progression of Breast Cancer
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 30, 2007
...the study from December 2001 through May 2004, represented a balance of age, disease-free interval, estrogen-positive receptors and sites of disease.
The results show that treatment with Taxol and Av...
Suffering from the Baby Blues? Try this.
in Well Woman Blog, on December 18, 2007
..., the only place there may be data is in veterinary journals."
Because the placenta contains estrogen and progesterone, some women believe that the sudden withdrawal of those hormones after the...
New Study Could Help Curve Breast Cancer Relapses
in Well Woman Blog, on December 14, 2007
...r in American women. More than 178,000 new cases are expected this year. Most are helped to grow by estrogen, and hormone-blocking medicines like tamoxifen are used to treat those.
Chemo usually is a...
Less Sunlight Exposure, Linked to Endometrial Cancer
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 20, 2007
...sociated with reduced risk of endometrial cancer.
Previous epidemiological studies have focused on estrogen levels - either natural or through hormone replacement therapy - which play the major role ...
Designer Estrogen Against Neurodegenerative Diseases
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 28, 2007
...ns (magnified in red) as the MS-infected spinal cord tissue of mice treated with a specific form of estrogen (right). Fewer neurons were found in the spinal cords of mice whose disease went untreated ...
HRT Not For the Older Woman
in Well Woman Blog, on July 18, 2007
...replacement pill or a placebo pill as part of the Women's International Study of long Duration Oestrogen after Menopause (WISDOM).
After following the women for a year, the researchers report wom...
Calcium Rich Foods for Your Bones
in Well Woman Blog, on June 30, 2007
...y's lead author, Dr. Reina Armamento-Villareal.
Those getting calcium from foods also had more estrogen in their bodies; the hormone is needed for bone mineral density.
What are some calcium ric...
Soy Eases Menopause Symptoms
in Well Woman Blog, on June 21, 2007
...nto your diet.
According to Nutrition, Naturally :
Soy is good for the menopause due to the phytoestrogen compounds which are present in soy.
These phytoestrogen compounds are similar to oestroge...
For Bone Health Protection: Dietary Calcium, Better than Supplements
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2007
...rnes-Jewish Hospital :
"This suggests that dietary calcium is associated with a shift in estrogen metabolism that favors production of active forms of estrogen.Although we're not yet ce...
Depressed? No Condom. Please
in Well Woman Blog, on May 30, 2007
...ly addictive-mood-altering chemicals.
The reason?
Semen contains hormones including testosterone, estrogen, prolactin, luteinizing hormone and prostaglandins, and some of these are absorbed through ...
Menopause and Your Sex Life
in Well Woman Blog, on May 24, 2007
... vaginal dryness, the two main sexual problems women face today. Vaginal dryness caused by dropping estrogen levels makes sex uncomfortable and painful, and also raises the risk of certain infections....
Menopause and Minerals
in Well Woman Blog, on May 19, 2007
...iciency. According to Medical News Today :
As menopause approaches, another emerging link between estrogen decline and its symptoms is the aspect of mineral deficiency. Mildred Seeling, M.D. describ...
Menopause, Herbs, and Magnets
in Well Woman Blog, on March 23, 2007
...s for menopause that might help reduce the symptoms of menopause and/or reduce the discomfort. Phytoestrogenic herbs for menopause are a group of herbs formed by a similar component that matches the e...
Hysterectomy and Early Menopause
in Well Woman Blog, on March 17, 2007
...hing else is called pre-menopause or post-menopause. Everything else can be sheer misery. I went on estrogen therapy for a few months, until the stories of blood clots and cancer scared me off. Then I...
Birth Control Using Implanon
in Well Woman Blog, on March 1, 2007
... to think about. She doesn't have to worry about if she's a smoker because there's no estrogen in it. There's not the worry of blood clots, thromboembolism."
Implanon has been in...
Better Answers to Menopause Relief
in Well Woman Blog, on February 27, 2007
...ed many women away from their use. Critics of that study have long contended that it is the type of estrogen or progestin, the dosage, and the method of taking the hormones that may affect the health ...
Menopause - Change of Life
in Well Woman Blog, on February 17, 2007
...early menopause in Article Alley that describes it this way:
A woman's body stops producing estrogen in the moment when ovaries stop functioning. In most of the cases women pass through a tran...
Hormonal Imbalances and Hormone Allergies
in Allergies, on February 12, 2007
...h changes during their menstrual cycle had higher levels of IgE antibodies against progesterone and estrogen than control subjects. An increase in IgE antibodies is typically associated with allergic ...
Headaches During Pregnancy
in Well Woman Blog, on February 5, 2007
...say that the reason could be safely attributed to the increase of hormones in the blood, especially estrogen and progesterone.
Some experimentation has been done on regulating of estrogen levels. In...
The Birth Control Patch
in Well Woman Blog, on February 2, 2007
...ch . How does it work? Kids Health tells us:
The combination of the hormones progesterone and estrogen in the patch prevents ovulation (the release of an egg from the ovaries during a girl's...
Clearblue® Easy Fertility Monitor Significantly Increase Chances of Conception
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 14, 2007
...is a personal computer that monitors the two key fertility hormones, Luteinizing Hormone (LH) and Estrogen (E3G), to prospectively identify six fertile days.
Traditional ovulation predictors only id...
Scared of menopause?
in Busy with Style, on January 11, 2007
...strual period. Perimenopausal changes are brought on by changing levels of ovarian hormones such as estrogen. During this transition time to menopause, estrogen levels gradually decline, but they do s...
Estrogen and the Hormone Leptin Has Same Appetite-Curbing Mechanism of Action
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 9, 2007
...r 31, 2006 online edition of Nature Medicine , Yale School of Medicine researchers reported that estrogen regulates the brain's energy metabolism in the same way that the hormone leptin ...
How Black Cohosh Reduce Hot Flashes
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 23, 2006
...rs important for temperature regulation.
Although the exact mechanism of the hot flash is unclear, estrogen withdrawal during menopause clearly plays an important role, Wang said. It is assume...
Overweight Women are at High Risk of Developing Blood Clots from Ortho Evra® Birth Control Patch
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 28, 2006
...what the company calls a theoretical risk that doing so might cause an unintentional increase in estrogen exposure.
Currently, no such precautions exist for a similar birth control patch sold to wome...
Breast Cancer Vaccine Targeting HER-2/neu Over-expression
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 13, 2006
...er the past few years, several genetic markers of breast cancer have been identified, such as BRCA, estrogen receptors, and HER-2/neu, all of which have been known to predict the severity of disease, ...
Mayo Clinic found that Preventive Ovary Removal is linked to Early Death in Younger Women
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 23, 2006
...m all causes increased 1.7 times for women in this age category, and was particularly increased for estrogen-related cancers and diseases of the brain and cardiovascular system.
The increased risk w...
Hormone-Replacement Therapy is Bad for Your Hearing
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 7, 2006
...earing.
The results also show no benefit to hearing for women who take a form of HRT that includes estrogen alone, a surprise to researchers who thought that estrogen might help hearing.
When a wom...
Men Can Grow Breasts Too: Gynecomastia
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 18, 2006
...terone raging through their bodies, Yost explains, and what the liver can't process converts to estrogen, causing painful nipples, puffy breasts or both.
This usually disappears once the liver a...
SoyLife® EXTRA: Soy Germ Isoflavones-Filled Product Maintains Bone Health in Postmenopausal Women
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 17, 2006
...
Isoflavones , found predominately in soy products whose structure and functions are similar to estrogen , demonstrated in observational studies that higher intakes (of soy and soy products) ma...
The four periods a day pill approved again!
in Are you a beauty?, on June 2, 2006
...84 pills and than taking 7 sugar (placebo) pills, Seasonique plan is taking the last seven with low estrogen levels: Keeping women on estrogen instead of dummy pills during the menstrual cycle limits...
FDA Approves Extended-Cycle Oral Contraceptive Seasonique
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 30, 2006
...stead of bearing 7 placebo pills, continuous hormonal support is provided in the form of low-dose estrogen ( 0.01 mg ethinyl estradiol). The regimen is also designed to reduce women's mens...
Low Estrogen Level in Men Increases Risk of Hip Fracture
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 8, 2006
... Testosterone has always been associated with men and estrogen to women. Men however possess both hormones and a new study has for the first time reported the link between low estrogen and hi...
Non-Hormonal Therapies Against Hot Flashes During Menopause
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 4, 2006
...
Estrogen therapy is commonly recommended to alleviate menopausal women of some symptoms such as hot flashes. However, not all women cannot take estrogen, such as those with breast cancer or a his...
Genetic Diagnostic Tests: A Growing Market
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 17, 2006
... companies offering such diagnostic tests:
Genomic Health offers Oncotype DX , which identifies estrogen-sensitive cancer patients, who are responsive to hormone therapy, as an alternative to chem...
New Contraceptive Pill May Cut Risk of Cancer
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 28, 2006
...ble oral contraceptives.
Existing combined pills contain two female sex hormones, progestin and estrogen . estrogen is thought to be responsible for the increased risk of breast cancer seen...
Ortho Evra Warning
in The Parenting Weblog, on November 11, 2005
...he first skin patch approved for birth control , apparently exposes women to higher levels of estrogen, more than most birth control pills.
"It is a weekly prescription patch that release...
C'mon, Baby, Light my Brain Cells
in The Dating Weblog, on October 21, 2005
...while in the womb, and a person with an
index finger longer than the ring finger will have had more estrogen.
In women, the two fingers are usually equal in length, as measured from
the crease nearest...
Infertility Drugs Requires Beta Estrogen Receptor Gene
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 22, 2005
...t issue of Endocrinology , researchers report that in mice that were genetically engineered to lack estrogen receptor beta, fertility drugs did not improve ovulation rates.
"If the results from ...
Hormone replacement therapy and hot flashes
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 13, 2005
.... Megace is the medication most frequently used.
There are some where nothing else works except estrogen. In these cases, discussion should be made with one's personal physician, as there are ...