Hormone Replacement Therapy Still Good For Menopause?

2010-03-10T18:14:23Z

Hormone replacement therapy, now more commonly known as hormone therapy, use to be medical worlds standard treatment for those women suffering from hot flashes and other side effects of going through menopause. They also thought that it could help prevent osteoporosis and even heart disease.<br><br>In 2002 however; the minds of many in the medical field changed when they saw the results of a clinical test. What the test uncovered is that the hormone replacement therapy could actua...

Eating fish has no effect on abnormal heart rhythm

2010-03-02T12:16:03Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There are plenty of good reasons to eat fish, but preventing abnormal heart rhythms doesn't seem to be one of them, according to a new study.</p><p>Dr. Jarrett D. Berry of the

Study: High-fat diets raise stroke risk in women

2010-02-24T14:31:44Z

<div id="subtitle">Diets rich in fat, trans fats, raise a woman's risk of stroke after menopause, study finds</div><div><p>A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that's in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women over 50, a large new study finds.</p><p>We already know that diets rich in fat, particularly artery-clogging trans fat, are bad for ...

Soy unlikely to trim body fat after menopause

2010-02-24T14:30:16Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Estrogen-like compounds found in soy won't help limit body fat in post-menopausal women, new research shows.</p><p>Animal studies and small studies in humans have offered some evidence that these compounds, known as isoflavones, could help build muscle mass and reduce fat mass, Dr. Oksana A. Matvienko of the ...

Hormone replacement tied to lung cancer risk

2010-02-24T10:30:27Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who use hormone replacement therapy combining estrogen and progestin may have a higher risk of lung cancer than non-users, a new study finds.</p><p>Whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) itself is to blame is not certain, researchers say. But the findings add to the complicated mix of potential health effects of HRT.</p><p>The study, published in the ...

Study links estrogen hormone therapy to asthma

2010-02-22T10:54:40Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may increase the risk of developing asthma after the menopause, scientists said on Monday.</p><p>The findings, from a major study involving almost 58,000 women in France over 12 years, add to a growing body of evidence suggesting a link between some female ho...

Hormone replacement tied to lower colon cancer risk

2010-02-22T11:51:19Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can carry serious health risks, but a new study adds to evidence that menopausal women who use the hormones may have lower odds of developing colon cancer.</p><p>The study, which followed nearly 57,000 California teachers, found that women who were using H...

Laser acupuncture fails to ease menopausal woes

2010-02-22T12:57:08Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women seeking relief of hot flashes and other bothersome symptoms of menopause might want to take a pass on laser acupuncture, based on a new study showing that it is largely ineffective in relieving menopausal symptoms.</p><p>Laser acupuncture uses a laser beam instead of the traditional acupuncture needles. The low-power laser beam is dir...

What You Ought to Know Concerning BHRT

2010-02-22T16:37:36Z

If you are reading this article, then you are likely curious about the process, features, and benefits of the procedure BHRT. This is a rather simple production, that is professionally known as Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy. While this might be a very new procedure, it is still making a lot of noise in the medical community for its high success rates.<br><br>You might know someone that suffers from a condition that is relative to the insufficiencies of ...

St. John's wort may cool hot flashes

2010-02-22T19:53:57Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The popular herbal remedy St. John's wort may help ease menopausal hot flashes, a small study suggests.</p><p>St. John's wort is probably best known as an herbal antidepressant, with some clinical trials suggesting that it can help relieve mild to moderate depression symptoms.</p><p>A few studies have also invest...

Natural Cure for Uterine Bleeding and Treatment

2010-02-22T22:24:24Z

Author: dr. sarkozy

Most women experience abnormal uterine bleeding at least once during their reproductive years. The most ordinary times those women knowledge heavy menstrual period are during the first few years of menstruation during adolescence and during the final two to three years of menstruating before menopause.
Abnormal uterine blood loss (AUB) is accountable for as many as one-third of all outpatient gynecologic visits, with the bulk of cases just after mena...

You Don't Have to Suffer Through Menopause Find Out How to Ease It's Symptoms

2010-02-22T22:34:19Z

Menopause is a common and natural occurrence that all women go through. It?s not a disease, though for some women it can feel that way. Symptoms often include hot flashes, irritability, osteoporosis, heart disease (from a lack of estrogen) loss of libido, night sweats, mood swings and depression. There are ways to ease symptoms of menopause, and once you learn how to handle this change in your life, you?ll have a new zest for your life because menopause isn?t an end. It?s just a transition.&a...

Acupuncture eases tamoxifen-related hot flashes

2010-02-22T23:24:54Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study provides more evidence that acupuncture can help ease hot flashes in women with breast cancer who are being treated with the "anti-estrogen" drug tamoxifen. Acupuncture, researchers found, is free of side effects and has a side benefit for some women: an increased sex drive.</p><p&g...

A Good Diet During Menopause

2010-02-23T00:25:50Z

Even though menopause is a tough period for most women, commencing a correct menopause diet can really help the symptoms. There are varieties of foods, when taken on a frequent basis that'll help ease the transition through the change of life so, should women experiencing these signs embark on a dietary program that centers on low carbohydrate, low fat recipes? Well, although you can endeavor to reduce the pounds, it is in all probability better to concentrate on a encompassing, wholesome die...

Hormone replacement won't prevent physical decline

2010-02-23T01:05:35Z

<div><p>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.</p><p>Researchers have speculated that waning estrogen levels may contribute to muscle loss and other declines in physical function as women age. Muscle cells have recep...

Do You Suffer From These Menopause Symptoms?

2010-02-23T01:42:21Z

Menopause is probably one of the most expected problems affecting women's health and menopause manifestations aren't commonly nice but are frequently uncomfortable, involving women of many different age groups even women as young as 20. Menopause is stimulated by the woman's system working through a dramatic alteration in hormone levels.<br><br>While the mid-20's is believed to be too young to be experiencing menopause indications, it does take place from time to t...

Placebo beats black cohosh for hot flashes

2010-02-23T08:42:30Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black cohosh and red clover are widely promoted as helping to ease menopausal and aging-related symptoms, but a rigorously performed study has found they are no better than placebo for treating hot flashes and night sweats.</p><p>That doesn't mean that they won't be helpful for some women, Reuters) - Women who took a commonly used class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates had significantly fewer invasive breast cancers than women not using the bone-strengthening pills, according to a new analysis of data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI).</p><p>The analysis from a segment of the more than 150,000 generally healthy post-menopaus...

Soy compounds may not prevent bone loss

2010-02-23T18:29:58Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Supplements containing soy isoflavones may do little to preserve women's bone mass after menopause.</p><p>In a study of more than 200 women ages 46 to 65, researchers found that the soy supplement did not appear to ward off bone-density loss over 3 years. In general, women on the supplement showed the same degree of bone loss as those given...

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