Reuters
By Amy Norton
NEW YORK | Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:21pm EDT
(Reuters Health) – Hormone replacement therapy after menopause may interfere with the accuracy of mammograms used to screen for breast cancer — and the risk may be greater with hormones delivered by patch or injection compared with pills, a new study finds.
Reuters
By Frederik Joelving
NEW YORK | Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:57pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Women who use estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy don’t appear to be at increased risk of dying from lung cancer.
That’s according to a new analysis of earlier data from postmenopausal women who had had their uterus removed (hysterectomy).
EmaxHealth
Submitted by Deborah Mitchell on 2010-08-11
The risk of breast cancer associated with the use of synthetic progesterone known as progestins has been a topic of much controversy and concern for many years. Now a new study reports on the impact of progestins on breast cancer in animals models.
Impalpable Earth & Unattainable Sky
July 7, 2010
I was relaying the ins and outs of my day to my mother, when I got to the part about having to admit to my professor that no, I was not running a fever or suffering from some contagious disease–my problems were probably menstruation-related.
My mother’s response? “You didn’t actually say that, did you?” (“That” being “I think it’s menstrual-related.”)
Right. So, after an afternoon spent telling myself, “No, it’s okay, he asked about your health, you don’t have to be embarrassed,” it turns out that, yes, actually, I should be embarrassed about it.
Deccan Chronicle
July 7th, 2010
By Dr Vijay V. Shah
While there are several contraception options available to women, it is important to make an informed choice before you decide to pop any pill to prevent getting pregnant. In addition to what kind of pill you should take, you need to be aware of the process involved in taking the pill, when to take it, when to stop and when to continue.
Dr. Spock.com
by Marjorie Greenfield, M.D.
reviewed and revised Marjorie Greenfield, M.D.
While some girls are just late bloomers–especially those whose mother or father started puberty late–most girls with late-onset of periods, known as delayed menarche (pronounced MEN-ar-kee), will have a medical cause for their late start. A combination of the girl’s medical history, a physical examination, her response to the progestin challenge test, and the results of some blood tests usually uncover the problem within a few weeks.
The birth control revolution brought freedom to countless women. It brought misery to me
Salon.com
Monday, May 3, 2010 07:01 ET
by Geraldine Sealey
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the pill’s introduction in the United States, a milestone that has inspired a raft of retrospective, largely celebratory media coverage. A Time cover story credited the pill with “rearranging the furniture of human relations.” A New York Times Op-Ed by historian Elaine Tyler May hailed the oral contraceptive as “a tool for women’s emancipation.”
Mirror.co.uk
Celebs
By Denise Welch 29/04/2010
Denise Welch has never felt strong enough to tell all about her 20-year fight against depression – until now.
In the final extract from her sensational autobiography Pulling Myself Together, the Loose Women and Coronation Street star details the severity of the dark illness that left her suicidal.
Denise, 51, married to actor Tim Healy with two sons, Matthew, 21, and Louis, eight, also reveals how a breakthrough hormone treatment finally cured her.
“I know exactly when my 20-year battle with depression started. It was as Tim and I drove home from hospital with our new son Matthew.
I said to Tim: “I feel really weird, as if I’m outside looking in.”
TulsaWorld.com
By SUZY COHEN Dear Pharmacist
Published: 3/27/2010 2:23 AM
Last Modified: 3/27/2010 4:28 AM
Dear Pharmacist, I bought a home test kit (saliva test) which measures my hormones. Everything came back normal except my progesterone which was extremely low. Could low progesterone explain my symptoms of weight gain, hot flashes and depression? — T.P., Dallas
Yes, absolutely and there’s an over-the-counter (OTC) fix. The symptoms that could plague a person with low progesterone (also termed estrogen dominance) include weight gain, depression, fatigue, irritability, incontinence, insomnia, heart disease, infertility and osteoporosis.
LIMED World News
by Kristin Gabriel
Today’s fervor for environmental preservation has also hit the medical industry as researchers, scientists and doctors are discovering the importance of the newest emerging field called environmental endocrinology. Doctors are now learning how environmental endocrinology, or the effect of daily stressors like light, food and crowding on multiple endocrine systems, controls the rate of aging and the quality of life. This also covers reproductive endocrinology, converging to become what we call menopause medicine.
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