Short-term hormone replacement therapy is a relatively safe treatment for healthy, recently postmenopausal women, according to a new consensus statement. (Source: Drug Topics - Pharmacy News)MedWorm Sponsor Message: Please support the Doctors In Chains campaign for the medics tortured and sentenced for up to 15 years in Bahrain. #FreeDoctors read more..
MONDAY, July 16 -- Being obese may affect a woman's response to breast cancer treatment, a small new study suggests.British researchers looked at 54 postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, meaning that the tumor may... read more..
TUESDAY, June 12 -- A leading U.S. government advisory panel has proposed that postmenopausal women not take low-dose calcium and vitamin D supplements daily to ward off bone fractures.But the jury is still out on higher doses of these... read more..
MONDAY, June 11 -- A widely prescribed drug, metformin, may lower the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women with diabetes, a new study indicates.The research, published online June 11 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, echoes... read more..
TUESDAY, May 1 -- Moderate weight loss reduces levels of inflammation that have been tied to certain cancers, at least in postmenopausal women, a new study suggests.According to the findings, older women who lost at least 5 percent of their body... read more..
TUESDAY, May 1 -- When it comes to surviving the skin cancer known as melanoma, nature appears to have dealt women a better hand than men, new research suggests.By almost every measure, an analysis of four European studies found that women can... read more..
TUESDAY, May 1 -- Women who receive a type of partial-breast radiation called brachytherapy may go on to have higher rates of breast cancer recurrence and side effects such as breast pain and infection than women receiving whole-breast radiation, a... read more..
THURSDAY, March 1 - Here's one more reason to avoid trans fats in your diet, especially if you are an older woman: A new study found a 39 percent increased risk of stroke among postmenopausal women who ate the highest amount of this common... read more..
FRIDAY, March 2 -- Women become less likely to insist on condom use during the course of their first year of college, new research finds.Declining condom use was most notable among women who drank excessively, who had worse grades and who came... read more..
FRIDAY, March 2 -- Breathing cold air during certain physical activities, such as shoveling snow, increases the body's demand for oxygen, which may put people with heart disease at greater risk for cardiac arrest or death, a new study finds."This... read more..
