News tagged with menopause
Study finds monkey mothers are key to sons' reproductive success
If you are a male human, nothing puts a damper on romantic success like having your mother in tow. If you are a male northern muriqui monkey, however, mom's presence may be your best bet to find and successfully ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Killer whales and the mystery of human menopause
The evolutionary mystery of menopause is a step closer to being solved thanks to research on killer whales.
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Scientists say blood test could predict menopause
(AP) -- Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 27, 2010 |
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Researchers unzip symptoms of the 'male menopause'
Scientists have for the first time identified the symptoms associated with what has been termed late-onset hypogonadism or 'male menopause' caused by a reduction in testosterone production in ageing men.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 16, 2010 |
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New blood test will show women's egg levels: report
Women will soon be able to tell how many eggs they have in their ovaries in a simple hormone test that Australian researchers said Sunday could revolutionise family planning and fertility treatment.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Inhibiting serotonin in gut could cure osteoporosis
An investigational drug that inhibits serotonin synthesis in the gut, administered orally once daily, effectively cured osteoporosis in mice and rats reports an international team led by researchers from Columbia University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 07, 2010 |
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Coffee break: Compound brewing new research in colon, breast cancer (w/ Podcast)
A compound in coffee has been found to be estrogenic in studies by Texas AgriLife Research scientists.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Hormone pills may make lung cancer more deadly
(AP) -- There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking estrogen-progestin pills, a study suggests.
May 31, 2009 |
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Study finds new risk factor for melanoma in younger women
Researchers may have found a more potent risk factor for melanoma than blistering sunburns, freckling, or family history of the deadly skin disease. In a new study, scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center report that a genetic ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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New evidence of hormone therapy causing breast cancer, professor says
Postmenopausal women who take combined estrogen plus progestin menopausal hormone therapy for at least five years double their annual risk of breast cancer, according to new analyses from a major study that clearly establishes ...
Feb 04, 2009 |
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Integrative Way: Hope for menopausal symptoms
As many women know, the Women's Health Initiative Study from 2002 showed that estrogen was not the dream treatment for menopausal symptoms that we once thought it was; estrogen treatment after menopause, especially when combined ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Study: Flaxseed doesn't reduce women's hot flashes
Women looking for a natural remedy for a common menopause problem have a disappointment: A new study has found that eating flaxseed does not curb hot flashes.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 05, 2011 |
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Caution for estrogen therapy after hysterectomy
An editorial in the April 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association cautions against estrogen-only hormone therapy in women who have had a hysterectomy because of longstanding evidence that it raises the ri ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Taking tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer can save lives and money
Tamoxifen, taken by certain women as a preventive measure against breast cancer, saves lives and reduces medical costs. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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More support needed for women to beat menopause 'taboo' in the workplace
Working through the menopause presents a major challenge for millions of women as they struggle to deal with symptoms, according to new research.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 09, 2011 |
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Menopause
Menopause is the permanent cessation of reproductive fertility some time before the end of the natural lifespan. The term was originally used to describe this reproductive change in human females, where the end of fertility was traditionally indicated by the permanent stopping of menstruation or "menses". The word "menopause" literally means the "end of monthly cycles" from the Greek words pausis (cessation) and the word root men (month).
The meaning of the word menopause has in more recent times been expanded to indicate the permanent discontinuation of female fertility in many other species, such as some matrilineal whales, despite the fact that such animals experience no menstrual cycles.
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