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Survey highlights the need to increase folic acid fortification of the grain supply

Only one-third of childbearing age women are taking a multivitamin containing the B vitamin folic acid daily to prevent serious birth defects of the brain and spine in their future babies, according to a decade of March of Dimes surveys.

3 Oct 2005

Hair loss and self-confidence

Hair loss in women or female pattern baldness can have devastating psychological effects on sufferers, two Monash University researchers have found.

28 Sep 2005

Married women have more sexual difficulties than single women or married men

Married women are more likely to have sexual difficulties than either single women or married men, suggest the findings of a national survey in Sexually Transmitted Infections.

28 Sep 2005

Unwed mothers are less likely than other women to improve their socio-economic status through marriage

Unwed mothers are significantly less likely to marry and more likely to cohabit than women without children. If they do marry, their husbands are more likely to have poor job prospects.

27 Sep 2005

Digital mammography and breast cancer in older women

Digital mammography that uses computers to detect breast cancer found significantly (up to 28%) more cancers than screen film mammography in women 50 and younger, premenopausal and perimenopausal women, and women with dense breasts, according to results from one of the largest breast cancer screening studies ever performed.

27 Sep 2005

Delaying having children defies nature and risks heartbreak

...say experts in the British Medical Journal. If women want families and room for manoeuvre they are unwise to wait till their 30s.

26 Sep 2005

Women with postmenopausal osteoporosis prefer once monthly to weekly treatment

Over 70% of postmenopausal women with Osteoporosis who expressed a preference, preferred once-monthly Bonviva, finding it more convenient than a once-weekly treatment. This is according to new data presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone Mineral Research (ASBMR).

26 Sep 2005

85 percent of postmenopausal women do not get enough calcium

An analysis presented today at the 27th Annual Meeting of The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research found that 85 percent of postmenopausal women do not get enough calcium on a daily basis.

26 Sep 2005

Simple, fast and effective method of detecting a large number of patients at high risk for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer

One in five women diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer who seek mammography have a family history of cancer that suggests they may harbor known cancer-causing gene mutations.

26 Sep 2005

Questionnaire helps identify women who have inherited genetic mutations that increase their risk for breast or ovarian cancer

A simplified way for patients to report and update their family medical histories could help identify women who have inherited genetic mutations that increase their risk for breast or ovarian cancer.

26 Sep 2005

Increased ovarian cancer risk not linked to cancer family history

Women with a strong family history of breast cancer but who don't have breast cancer genetic mutations can now be reassured that they are not at increased risk for ovarian cancer, according to a new study by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC).

21 Sep 2005

Stress and breast cancer link

High levels of daily stress appear to result in a lower risk of developing breast cancer for the first time, says a study in the British Medical Journal.

19 Sep 2005

Natural daily body rhythms may influence the effectiveness of spinal-epidural pain medication

The study found that women who had day labor got longer pain relief than women with night labor with the same amount of labor pain medicine.

19 Sep 2005

Methoxychlor (MXC), a common insect pesticide may lead to reduced fertility in women

Methoxychlor (MXC), a common insect pesticide used on food crops, may interfere with proper development and function of the reproductive tract, leading to reduced fertility in women, researchers at Yale School of Medicine write in the August issue of Endocrinology.

19 Sep 2005

Women's Health News

Survey highlights the need to increase folic acid fortification of the grain supply

Hair loss and self-confidence

Married women have more sexual difficulties than single women or married men

Unwed mothers are less likely than other women to improve their socio-economic status through marriage

Digital mammography and breast cancer in older women

Delaying having children defies nature and risks heartbreak

Women with postmenopausal osteoporosis prefer once monthly to weekly treatment

85 percent of postmenopausal women do not get enough calcium

Simple, fast and effective method of detecting a large number of patients at high risk for hereditary breast/ovarian cancer

Questionnaire helps identify women who have inherited genetic mutations that increase their risk for breast or ovarian cancer

Increased ovarian cancer risk not linked to cancer family history

Stress and breast cancer link

Natural daily body rhythms may influence the effectiveness of spinal-epidural pain medication

Methoxychlor (MXC), a common insect pesticide may lead to reduced fertility in women

Women who suffer heart attacks wait longer to be assessed

Stress on a daily basis protects against breast cancer

Putting the risk of breast cancer and postmenopausal Hormone Therapy (HT) into perspective

Testing for specific breast cancer genes unadvisable if no family history of disease exists

Folic acid levels should be double to provide maximum protection during pregnancy

Results of a new survey into the exercise routines of African-American

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