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Time of conception linked to birth defects in United States

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A study published in the April 2009 issue of the medical journal Acta Pædiatrica is the first to report that birth defect rates in the United States were highest for women conceiving in the spring and summer. The researchers also f ...





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Menopause transition may cause trouble learning

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The largest study of its kind to date shows that women may not be able to learn as well shortly before menopause compared to other stages in life. The research is published in the May 26, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the me ...


New hormone data can predict menopause within a year

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For many women, including the growing number who choose later-in-life pregnancy, predicting their biological clock's relation to the timing of their menopause and infertility is critically important.


Can breastfeeding reduce multiple sclerosis relapses?

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women who have multiple sclerosis may reduce their risk of relapses after pregnancy if they breastfeed their babies, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 61st Annual ...


Unnatural selection: Birth control pills may alter choice of partners

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 21

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, ...


Minimally invasive fibroid treatment fares well in multicenter trial

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 26, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A new multicenter trial found that uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a good alternative to hysterectomy in women with symptomatic fibroids. The findings of the Embolisation versus Hysterectomy (EMMY) Trial appear in the ...


Study finds hereditary link to premenstrual depression

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 17, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A specific genetic variation may be tied to an increased risk for severe premenstrual depression, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Mental Health have found.


Acupuncture may hold promise for women with hormone disorder

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 03, 2008 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Getting pregnant with her first child was difficult, but when Rebecca Killmeyer of Charlottesville, Va. experienced a miscarriage during her second pregnancy, she wasn't sure if she would ever have another baby. When she ...


Brain's reward circuit activity ebbs and flows with a woman's hormonal cycle

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 02, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Fluctuations in sex hormone levels during women's menstrual cycles affect the responsiveness of their brains' reward circuitry, an imaging study at the National Institute of Mental Health, a component of the National Institutes ...


Getting a good night's sleep is the biggest problem for women entering the menopause

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sleep disruption is the most common and severe symptom reported by middle-aged women when their periods change and they start moving into the menopause, according to a study in the April issue of the UK-based Journal of Cl ...


Bleeding disorders going undiagnosed; new guidelines to help

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly one percent of the population suffers from bleeding disorders, yet many women don't know they have one because doctors aren't looking for the condition, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.



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