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Mother who smoke during her pregnancy may transmit asthma to future generation

Asthma is a serious public health problem. An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from this sometimes deadly lung disease, a number expected to increase to 400 million by 2025. One well-established risk factor for asthma is having a mother who smoked during her pregnancy.

21 Sep 2013

Applied Integrin Sciences' drug candidate eliminates ovarian cancer tumors in pre-clinical study

Applied Integrin Sciences, Inc. announced today that its first cancer therapeutic drug candidate eliminated all intraperitoneal ovarian cancer tumors in a pre-clinical study testing a novel treatment regimen.

21 Sep 2013

Researchers make new breakthroughs in brain circuitry controlling fertility

In a landmark discovery, the final piece in the puzzle of understanding how the brain circuitry vital to normal fertility in humans and other mammals operates has been put together by researchers at New Zealand's University of Otago.

21 Sep 2013

Study: Women with access to group prenatal care have improved birth outcomes

Women with access to group prenatal care had improved birth outcomes, including longer gestational periods and higher birth weight, in a study conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt's Peabody Research Institute.

21 Sep 2013

Hormone replacement therapy formulations may cause different risks for stroke, heart attack

Post-menopausal women whose doctors prescribe hormone replacement therapy for severe hot flashes and other menopause symptoms may want to consider taking low doses of Food and Drug Administration-approved bioidentical forms of estrogen or getting their hormones via a transdermal patch.

20 Sep 2013

Shorter course of radiotherapy safe and effective for women with breast cancer

The long-term results of the landmark START trials conclusively confirm that giving radiotherapy as a lower overall dose in fewer, higher doses over a shorter treatment time (hypofractionated) is at least as effective and safe as the current international standard for most women with early breast cancer.

19 Sep 2013

Postpartum sexuality: an interview with Dr Sari van Anders, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research on postpartum seems to have focused on birth mothers for good reason: women (and, of course, some transmen) are the ones who carry a pregnancy and give birth, and the postpartum is conceptualized as “following birth”.

19 Sep 2013

Cancer Council Queensland to host free webinar for women diagnosed with breast cancer genes

Cancer Council will next week host a free national webinar for women who carry BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 genes for breast cancer.

19 Sep 2013

Midwifery care costs less and just as safe as standard maternity care

Continued care from a named midwife throughout pregnancy, birth, and after the baby is born (caseload midwifery) is just as safe as standard maternity care (shared between different midwives and medical practitioners) for all women irrespective of risk, and is significantly cheaper, according to new research published in The Lancet.

19 Sep 2013

Radiotherapy combined with breast-conserving surgery reduces risk of local recurrence in women DCIS

Results of EORTC trial 10853 appearing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology show that breast conserving treatment combined with radiotherapy reduces the risk of local recurrence in women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

19 Sep 2013

A cost-effective approach to California's mammography screening program

When public health budgets are constrained, mammography screening should begin later and occur less frequently, a cost-effectiveness analysis for California's Every Woman Counts (EWC) program concludes.

18 Sep 2013

Study shows that in women, heart attack is not always accompanied by chest chain

"Women less than 55 years old are more likely to have their ACS misdiagnosed in the ER than men, and they have higher risk of death," adds first author Dr. Nadia Khan, associate professor of Medicine, UBC. "The public and physicians need to be aware of this problem."

18 Sep 2013

Doctoral thesis sheds light on phenomenon of war rape in DRC

Rape in war cannot be addressed in isolation. It is deeply embedded in both the local context and that of global proportions. This is one of the conclusions made in a doctoral thesis about eastern Democratic Republic of Congo presented at Uppsala University, Sweden, on 19th September.

18 Sep 2013

Pregnant women with BMI too high or low are more likely to have maternal complications

Pregnant women with a body mass index (BMI) that is too high or too low are more likely to have maternal complications, require additional hospital care and incur higher medical costs, according to a new study published today (18 September) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

18 Sep 2013

Young women with critical mothers likelier to have disordered eating attitudes

Young women with critical, over-involved mothers likelier to have poor social skills and disordered eating attitudes.

18 Sep 2013

Lifescript.com, Cedars-Sinai join to produce Web video series focusing on women's health

Cedars-Sinai, the largest academic medical center in California, and Lifescript.com, a leading women's health and wellness website, announced today they are co-producing a Web video series focused on women's health, medical news and innovations.

18 Sep 2013

Study: Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation may help treat stress urinary incontinence

Vaginal delivery presents the possibility of injury for mothers that can lead to "stress urinary incontinence", a condition affecting from four to 35 percent of women who have had babies via vaginal delivery. Many current treatments, such as physiotherapy and surgery, are not very effective.

18 Sep 2013

Cleveland Clinic creates spin-off company to develop vaccine for preventing breast cancer

Cleveland Clinic Innovations has created a spin-off company to develop a preventive breast cancer vaccine based on research from Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute.

18 Sep 2013

Caseload midwifery care is feasible for women of all risk types

A world-first University of Sydney randomised controlled trial comparing continuity of midwifery care throughout pregnancy with standard public hospital care found that caseload midwifery reduced interventions in birth and reduced costs.

17 Sep 2013

Women with acute coronary syndrome less likely to have chest pain than men

A higher proportion of women than men 55 years and younger did not have chest pain in acute coronary syndromes (ACS, such as heart attacks or unstable angina), although chest pain was the most common symptom for both sexes, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

17 Sep 2013

Women's Health News

Mother who smoke during her pregnancy may transmit asthma to future generation

Applied Integrin Sciences' drug candidate eliminates ovarian cancer tumors in pre-clinical study

Researchers make new breakthroughs in brain circuitry controlling fertility

Study: Women with access to group prenatal care have improved birth outcomes

Hormone replacement therapy formulations may cause different risks for stroke, heart attack

Shorter course of radiotherapy safe and effective for women with breast cancer

Postpartum sexuality: an interview with Dr Sari van Anders, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Cancer Council Queensland to host free webinar for women diagnosed with breast cancer genes

Midwifery care costs less and just as safe as standard maternity care

Radiotherapy combined with breast-conserving surgery reduces risk of local recurrence in women DCIS

A cost-effective approach to California's mammography screening program

Study shows that in women, heart attack is not always accompanied by chest chain

Doctoral thesis sheds light on phenomenon of war rape in DRC

Pregnant women with BMI too high or low are more likely to have maternal complications

Young women with critical mothers likelier to have disordered eating attitudes

Lifescript.com, Cedars-Sinai join to produce Web video series focusing on women's health

Study: Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation may help treat stress urinary incontinence

Cleveland Clinic creates spin-off company to develop vaccine for preventing breast cancer

Caseload midwifery care is feasible for women of all risk types

Women with acute coronary syndrome less likely to have chest pain than men

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