News tagged with menstrual flow


Researchers offer new insight into effectiveness of procedure to stop heavy menstrual bleeding

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts estimate that 20 percent of women experience excessive or prolonged menstrual bleeding at some time during their lives, particularly as they approach menopause. A new, less invasive procedure called global endometrial ...





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Limbs saved by menstrual blood stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cells obtained from menstrual blood, termed 'endometrial regenerative cells' (ERCs) are capable of restoring blood flow in an animal model of advanced peripheral artery disease. A study published today in BioMed Central's ...


Oral contraceptives may benefit women with asthma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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, ...


Ballerinas and female athletes share quadruple health threats

Ballerinas and female athletes share quadruple health threats

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study led by sports medicine researcher Anne Hoch, D.O., at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has revealed that young female professional dancers face the same health risks as young female athletes ...


Slipper-shaped blood cells

Slipper-shaped blood cells

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Red blood cells, which make up 45 percent of blood, normally take the shape of circular cushions with a dimple on either side. But they can sometimes deform into an asymmetrical slipper shape. A team of physicists ...


'Teapot effect' solved

Solving Teapot Effect

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 10 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists from France have worked out why teapots dribble at low flow rates, and how to stop them. The effect is called the "teapot effect", and solving it could finally put an ...


Organizational psychologists use Rock Band to study how people achieve flow while at work

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

By playing the video game Rock Band for an hour, Kansas State University students were able to help a pair of psychology professors with their research to understand how people can achieve flow while at work or while performing ...


Newer heart devices significantly improve survival, complication rate and quality of life

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new generation of implanted devices that help a failing heart function properly is significantly more effective than the previous version, making these new devices an appropriate permanent therapy for many of the more than ...


Interventional radiology treatment for uterine fibroids: Safe, nonsurgical option

Interventional radiology treatment for uterine fibroids: Safe, nonsurgical option (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Uterine fibroid embolization—a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors—is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for ...


Generating electricity from air flow

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into electricity. ...


Physical education teaching staff play key role in making you like sport

Physical education teaching staff play key role in making you like sport

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What factors have an influence in making us like sport in the physical education classes we receive in school? According to a new investigation, physical education teaching staff must develop the responsibility, ...



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