http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. New research shows that during natural menstrual cycles, women with asthma who were not taking oral contraceptives (OC) had lower exhaled nitric oxide levels (eNO), a marker of airway inflammation associated with asthma, than women who were taking OC. http://www.physorg.com/news176622901.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:30:01 EST news176622901 She was only 30 years old, but she was experiencing the classic symptoms of a stroke. Her speech suddenly became slurred, and her left hand became clumsy while eating. http://www.physorg.com/news175787653.html Medicine & Health Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:55:17 EST news175787653 There is no doubt that modern contraception has enabled women to have unprecedented control over their own fertility. However, is it possible that the use of oral contraceptives is interfering with a woman's ability to choose, compete for and retain her preferred mate? A new paper published by Cell Press in the October issue of the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution reviews emerging evidence suggesting that contraceptive methods which alter a woman's natural hormonal cycles may have an underappreciated impact on choice of partners for both women and men and, possibly, reproductive success. http://www.physorg.com/news174140457.html Biology Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:10:01 EST news174140457 About one-fourth of patients with superficial vein thrombosis -clotting in blood vessels close to the skin -also may have the life-threatening condition deep vein thrombosis, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Dermatology. http://www.physorg.com/news167326481.html Medicine & Health Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:35:17 EST news167326481 Researchers have identified a potential biological mechanism that could explain why oral contraceptives may be less effective at preventing pregnancy in obese women, as some epidemiological studies have indicated. http://www.physorg.com/news166795862.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:00:02 EST news166795862 Women's reproductive and lifestyle characteristics can be linked to different invasive breast cancer subtypes. Data on 2544 breast cancer cases, presented in the open access journal Breast Cancer Research, suggests that traditional risk factors for development of the condition are associated with different kinds of tumor. http://www.physorg.com/news162155578.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 20:14:25 EST news162155578 The ratio of women to men with the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is nine to one and the incidence increases after puberty. Hormones secreted by the body are therefore believed to play an important role in the origins of the disease. A new large, population-based observational study found that the use of oral contraceptives was associated with an increased risk of SLE, particularly among women who had recently started taking them. The study was published in the April issue of Arthritis Care & Research. http://www.physorg.com/news158327957.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:59:34 EST news158327957 A woman who ate a grapefruit each day almost had to have her leg amputated because of a dangerous blood clot, according to an unusual case study reported in the Lancet. http://www.physorg.com/news157918475.html Medicine & Health Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:16:35 EST news157918475 Liver cell adenoma (LCA) is a benign tumor of the liver parenchyma that is associated with the use of oral contraceptives or with glycogen-storage disease. A group in Japan reported a case of LCA found in a 40-year-old woman without a history of oral contraceptive use in which the sequential alteration of the radiological findings suggested well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma. http://www.physorg.com/news156761441.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:51:11 EST news156761441 Introduced in the 1960s, oral contraceptives have been used by about 80 percent of women in the United States at some point in their lives. For women without pre-existing risks for heart disease, the early formulations were generally safe, and the newer ones appear to be even safer, but all the risks and benefits are yet to be established, especially as women's lifestyles change and new forms of contraceptives become available, according to specialists in women's heart disease at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. http://www.physorg.com/news151151902.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:38:22 EST news151151902 Making the contraceptive pill available without prescription will not reduce unwanted pregnancies, says an expert in an article published on bmj.com today. http://www.physorg.com/news149311814.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:30:14 EST news149311814