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Posted by Sheila Ring on July 11, 2011 9:44 AM
Older moms’ estrogen pills should be avoided, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned, after it found they can raise the risk of blood clots.
Cardiovascular disease in women—often silent and fatal
July 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Lancet
Volume 378, Issue 9787, Page 200, 16 July 2011
On June 21, two US organisations, WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease and the Society for Women’s Health Research, released 2011 10QReport: Advancing Women’s Heart Health Through Improved Research, Diagnosis and Treatment. The report emphasises the burden of cardiovascular disease in women and the disappointing lack of research into this predicament.
Happy People don’t Get Heart Disease
July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
WYDDTY
What Your Doctor’s Don’t Tell You
July 14, 2011
Accentuating the positive can help you live longer. People who are generally happy and satisfied with their lives are far less likely to develop heart disease – and the happier you are, the lower the risk goes.
Lipids, Menopause, and Early Atherosclerosis in Study of Women’s Health across the Nation Heart Women
July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Medscape Today
Posted: 04/22/2011; Menopause. 2010;18(4):376-384. © 2010 The North American Menopause Society
Objective: The risk of cardiovascular disease increases after menopause. Recent evidence suggests that it is possible for high-density lipoprotein (HDL) to become proatherogenic or dysfunctional in certain situations. Our objective was to evaluate whether the relationship of HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) to subclinical cardiovascular disease differed across the menopausal transition, which would provide insight for this increased risk.
Women can bank on menstrual blood stem cells to cure illness
March 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Hindustan Times
West India
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, March 09, 2011
It is not too late for women, who did not store their umbilical cord for stem cells therapy. On the occasion of Women’s Day on Tuesday, LifeCell International, a private stem cell bank, introduced LifeCell Femme, a menstrual blood stem cell banking service. With this service, blood collected during a woman’s menstrual period can be processed to harvest stem cells, which can be introduced into the woman’s body if detected with illnesses such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis and certain heart ailments.
Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong
February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Newsweek
January 24, 2011
If you follow the news about health research, you risk whiplash. First garlic lowers bad cholesterol, then—after more study—it doesn’t. Hormone replacement reduces the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women, until a huge study finds that it doesn’t (and that it raises the risk of breast cancer to boot). Eating a big breakfast cuts your total daily calories, or not—as a study released last week finds. Yet even if biomedical research can be a fickle guide, we rely on it.
A Writer Traces Illnesses Back to the Womb
December 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The New York Times
By RANDI HUTTER EPSTEIN, M.D.
Published: December 27, 2010
NEW HAVEN — When the medical journalist Annie Murphy Paul’s first son was a toddler, she started wondering how personality traits are passed from one generation to the next. So she did what any reporter would do: she delved into the scientific literature and talked to investigators.
Then, in the course of her research, she became pregnant herself.
Internal body clock controls fat metabolism, UCI study shows
December 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Science Blog
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 15, 2010 — UC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms — the internal body clock — regulate fat metabolism. This helps explain why people burn fat more efficiently at certain times of day and could lead to new pharmaceuticals for obesity, diabetes and energy-related illnesses.
Holy Hormones Honey! Radio Interview of the Year
December 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
12.6.10 Join Leslie Carol Botha and Stephen Lewis, author of Sanctuary – The Path to Consciousness and founder of the AIM Program of Energetic Balancing. 6 to 7 pm MST – KRFCFM.org
Imagine a world in which you are empowered to heal imbalances on every level, to be free from all limitations you’ve acquired so you can achieve true well being, your potential however you choose to define it.
Happy pills used by thousands ‘raise the risk of heart disease’
December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mail Online
Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:16 AM on 1st December 2010
Powerful anti-depressants taken by hundreds of thousands of people could significantly raise the chances of heart disease, scientists have found.
Men and women taking tricyclics are 35 per cent more likely to develop a range of cardiac problems, from heart attacks to strokes.
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