September 19, 2008 – 11:24 am
Posted by Leslie
Bioidentical hormone therapy alleviates symptoms caused by menopause and andropause (the male menopause) such as weight gain, memory loss, low libido, mood swings, and can overall help restore youthful vitality to the body.
Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) September 19, 2008 — Suzanne Somers answers this bioidentical hormone question best in her recently released book, “Breakthrough: […]
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September 13, 2008 – 8:40 am
Posted by Leslie
Hormones increasingly are shown to affect brain functions, and now they may battle MS symptoms, too.
Miller-McCune
Written by Lisa Conti
Lisa Conti trained at the University of California in Santa Barbara as a scientist in the Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Department and worked at UCSB as a post doctoral fellow and project scientist.
When it comes to […]
September 11, 2008 – 4:16 pm
Posted by Leslie
LEIF GRUNSETH
By Dr. George J Georgiou and Barbara Karafokas
Soy is still widely perceived to be a “health food” in the United States, raking in some $4 billion a year. In the United States, every part of the soybean is used for profit, including soy lecithin — the waste left over after a soybean is […]
September 4, 2008 – 4:47 pm
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Blogger News Network
Posted on September 4th, 2008
by Nancy Reyes in All News, Breaking News, Business News, Country News, Economic News, Environmental News, Medical News, Research News, Science News, Society and Culture, US Government News, US News
One of the environmental stories that has worried some of us for years is again in the news.
There is a […]
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Also posted in Adolescent Girls, Breast Health, Education, Estrogen, Infertility, Men, Menopause, Menstrual Cycle, Mothers & Daughters, Pregnancy, Puberty, Wellness, Women's Health
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Psych Central
By Rick Nauert, Ph.D.
Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on July 31, 2008
Thursday, Jul 31 (Psych Central) — A new University of Florida study finds that recharging a naturally occurring estrogen receptor in the brain may improve mental performance.
The discovery is consistent with the acknowledgement that estrogen treatments improve mental performance […]
August 1, 2008 – 11:43 am
Posted by Leslie
ScienceDaily (Mar. 15, 2005) -
A new study finds men treated with hormone therapy for prostate cancer may experience temporary cognitive changes that can affect verbal fluency, visual recognition and visual memory. The study, published in the April 1, 2005 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, finds the degree of cognitive […]
August 1, 2008 – 11:14 am
Posted by Leslie
ScienceDaily (Aug. 1, 2008) —
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008, August 1).
University of Illinois researchers report this week that chronic exposure to estradiol, the main estrogen in the body, diminishes some cognitive functions. Rats exposed to a steady dose of estradiol were impaired on tasks involving working memory and response inhibition, the researchers found.
Their report […]
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17:45 11 June 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Ewen Callaway
You might call it our circadian eye. A handful of retina cells sense light, not for vision, but instead to reset our body clocks each day. Killing off these cells in mice leaves their sight unharmed, but throws their clocks out of whack, two new studies show.
Jolting these […]
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Wall Street Journal
March 25, 2008
HEALTH JOURNAL
By MELINDA BECK
March 18, 2008; Page D1
Gayatri Devi was a neurologist and psychiatrist specializing in memory
disorders when a patient’s case changed her career. The 52-year
Brazilian woman, once a dynamo, had become forgetful and disoriented.
Dr. Devi and her colleagues diagnosed early Alzheimer’s disease and
prescribed a standard AD drug. As an afterthought, […]
September 24, 2007 – 8:50 am
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WebMDNews
News Author: Caroline Cassels
CME Author: Penny Murata, MD
Release Date: September 24, 2007
September 24, 2007 — New research suggests that hormone therapy (HT) does not improve memory in recently postmenopausal women with cognitive complaints.
In the largest study to date to examine the effects of HT in early postmenopausal women, the Cognitive Complaints in Early Menopause Trial […]