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Women's Health News Cancer risks for overweight women
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Half of all cases of womb cancer and a type of oesophageal cancer in women are caused by being overweight or obese, according to a new report published online in the British Medical Journal.
Breast cancer screening may not be cost-effective for older women on dialysis
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For older women on dialysis, routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer may not be a cost-effective use of medical resources, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 40th Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Francisco.
Women with implantable cardioverter defibrillators fare less well than men
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While ICDs—implantable cardioverter defibrillators—are the device of choice to manage abnormal heart rhythms, a new study led by cardiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests that women with ICDs fare less well than their male counterparts.
American women at increased risk of silent coronaries
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After examining data from government health surveys undertaken in the United States, researchers say more American women are developing a type of artery disease that raises the risk of death from heart disease and stroke.
Uplifting news about sagging boobs
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A new study has found that breastfeeding does not make breasts sag. This news will be welcome to nursing mothers who may well have been deterred from breast feeding because they thought it might adversely affect the shape of their breasts.
Overweight mothers run greater risk of having hyperactive children
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If a woman is overweight when she becomes pregnant, the probability is much greater that her child will evince ADHD-like symptoms when he/she reaches school age, according to a new Nordic study.
New understanding of gestational diabetes
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A protein in the pancreas is giving researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine their first chance at cracking the code that determines how diabetes develops during pregnancy, a finding that could lead to new treatments for all forms of diabetes.
Discovery of novel mechanism to predict survival in older women with early stage lung cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32088
A novel mechanism to predict survival in older women with early stage lung cancer has been uncoverecd by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a discovery that may have significant implications for new treatment approaches.
Breastfeeding shown not to adversely affect breast shape
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Nursing mothers needn't worry.
Fertility diet
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Women who followed a combination of five or more lifestyle factors, including changing specific aspects of their diets, experienced more than 80 percent less relative risk of infertility due to ovulatory disorders compared to women who engaged in none of the factors, according to a paper published in the November 1, 2007, issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Roche's organ-rejection drug CellCept increases risk of birth defects, miscarriage, FDA says
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32018
FDA on Monday said Roche's organ-rejection drug CellCept increases the risk of birth defects and miscarriage during the first trimester of pregnancy, Reuters reports. CellCept prevents organ rejection among kidney, liver and heart transplant recipients.
Pope says pharmacists have right to conscientiously object to fill emergency contraception
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32017
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday at the 25th International Congress of Catholic Pharmacists in Rome told attendees that they have a right to conscientiously object to dispensing drugs such as emergency contraception, which can prevent pregnancy if take up to 72 hours after sexual intercourse, the AP/Google.com reports (Winfield, AP/Google.com, 10/29).
Coalition's guidelines on fish consumption for pregnant women 'misleading,' opinion piece says
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The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition's recent recommendations for fish and seafood consumption for pregnant and breast-feeding women are "misleading" and a "classic example of industry-driven marketing under the cloak of scientific research," Andrea Kavanagh, director of the National Environmental Trust's Pure Salmon Campaign, writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece (Kavanagh, Los Angeles Times, 10/31).
Elective Caesareans put mums and babes at risk of death
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31961
According to a new British study women who opt for non-emergency Caesareans double their risk of dying or developing severe complications following the procedure.
Breast cancer victims who smoke not at risk for more aggressive tumors
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31960
According to a new study women who develop breast cancer and smoke are not at an increased risk of developing more aggressive or advanced tumors.
The risks linked to caesarean births
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=31950
Women having a non-emergency caesarean birth have double the risk of illness or even death compared to a vaginal birth, according to a study from Latin America published on bmj.com.

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