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Just the facts, ma’am…

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Centre’s for Excellence in Women’s Health
A Woman’s Guide for Understanding Evidence about Health and Healthcare

  

  

  

  

  
 
 
 

 Questions Women Should Ask about Health Care Evidence:■ About truth and values:
Who carries out, funds and benefits from the research?
■ About defining the research problem:
What is the “problem”? How could it be defined differently
■ About what counts:
Do we use numbers or […]

Anorexia, Bulimia and OTHER Eating Disorders

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Space Age Natural Beauty and Health Care Center
Bombay, India

Today there is a tremendous pressure by the media and the Society on the younger generation to “look right”.
 
A whole new concept of “Figure Consciousness” has emerged due to the TV, Newspapers and Magazines which cater to the “Lens Culture”.
 
It is true, that the Camera adds about […]

Bioidentical Hormones Turns Back Time for Baby Boomers

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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: […]

Sexy Impulses: Treating Multiple Sclerosis with Hormones

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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 […]

Weapons against infertility: Vegetables and fruit

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Chatham Courier
September 12, 2008
By Laurie Thomas
Eating a low-fat, high-fiber diet that is rich in vegetables and fruit may increase your chances of getting pregnant the old-fashioned way.
The standard American diet is so high in fat and animal protein and so low in fiber that it can cause hormone imbalances, reducing fertility in women and men.
A […]

Menopause And Exercise - 6 Great Reasons To Do It

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Corsavoo.com
Bastia,Corse,France
Regular, vigorous exercise at menopause time can help reduce many of the commonest symptoms of menopause. It will also help deal with heart disease and osteoporosis. Use exercise as part of a holistic ‘menopause programme’ which should include attention to diet and relaxation as well as use of natural remedies including herbs.
Here are the 6 […]

HRT Use Increases GERD

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NewsInferno.com
September 10, 2008
Women taking hormones to relieve menopause symptoms and women taking SERMs—selective estrogen receptor modulators—to treat breast cancer and osteoporosis, have a higher risk of developing symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), according to a study in the current issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
SERMs, such as tamoxifen, are popular in the treatment of […]

Unclean Blood May Save Life

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India Times
September 7, 2008
Many refer to it as ‘nature’s curse on women’. It’s commonly thought of as unclean. In some cultures, women are not even allowed to cook during those days of month. But, path-breaking new research could change the way people view the menstrual cycle. And it’s here in India, for the first time […]

The Problem with Plastics

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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 […]

Acupuncture May Hold Promise for Women with Hormone Disorder

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EmaxHealth
By: University of Virginia - Wed, 09/03/2008 - 17:49
Getting pregnant with her first child was difficult, but when Rebecca Killmeyer of Charlottesville, Va. experienced a miscarriage during her second pregnancy, she wasn’t sure if she would ever have another baby. When she decided to enter a study testing the impact of acupuncture on women […]