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Women's Health News The risks of indoor tanning to women
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At age 17, all Meghan Rothschild and Brittany Lietz wanted was a dark tan. They thought it made them look beautiful. But both had no idea that in just three years they would be battling melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. Now Meghan, 24, of Wilbraham, Mass., and Brittany, 23, of Annapolis, Md., are speaking out about their experiences.
Cells lining milk ducts hold key to spread of ductal carcinoma in situ
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38042
When a form of cancer that begins in the milk ducts of the breast invades neighboring tissue to spread to other parts of the body, the cause lies not in the tumor cells themselves but in a group of abnormal surrounding cells that cause the walls of the duct to deteriorate like a rusty pipe, according to a new study led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers.
Oestrogen works for women the way testosterone does for men
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38022
Collaboration by American and German scientists has revealed that the sex hormone oestrogen increases a women's competitiveness.
Variations of the adiponectin gene may predict risk of breast cancer in women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=38015
According to a recent study, led by Virginia Kaklamani, MD, an oncologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and assistant professor of medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, variations of the adiponectin gene, which regulates a number of metabolic processes, may increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer.
New findings on vitamin E and cataracts in women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37983
A new analysis of the Women's Health Study (WHS) found that women who took Vitamin E supplements had rates of cataract development comparable to women who did not take such supplements.
Aspirin a day cuts risk of common breast cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37962
Scientists in the U.S. say an aspirin a day may afford women some protection against the most common type of breast cancer, estrogen receptor or ER-positive breast cancer.
Trends in heart mortality reversing in younger women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37958
Coronary heart disease mortality in younger women could be on the rise, according to findings in the open access journal, BMC Public Health, published by BioMed Central. High levels of smoking, increasing obesity and a lack of exercise could all be contributing to this disturbing trend, seen in women under the age of 50.
Better-educated women have healthier average weight
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37942
A new comparison of multi-national data, released this month, reveals that highly educated women have a healthier average weight than less educated women, but that the meaning of "healthier" changes according to a nation's relative wealth. In countries where malnutrition is prevalent, better-educated women weigh more. But in wealthier countries - with rapidly growing rates of obesity - better-educated women weigh less.
Aspirin and other NSAIDs could lower the risk of breast cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37922
Taking aspirin on a daily basis may lower women's risk of a particular type of breast cancer, according to results published in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research.
Study describes mechanism linking acohol with risk of breast cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37913
The known association of alcohol consumption with an increased risk of breast cancer has been linked by researchers at the University at Buffalo to a process that causes genes that promote normal cell growth to produce proteins that precipitate unregulated cell growth, an action known as hypermethylation
Pregnant women have the oddest food cravings!
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37909
According to an internet poll pregnancy cravings are much more common among modern women than previous generations.
Breast cancer risk cut by breast feeding
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37907
A World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) survey has revealed that three out of four women are unaware that breast feeding can protect a woman from breast cancer.
Getting to the roots of breast cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37879
The lesson learned in eradicating dandelions from your yard could apply in treating breast cancer as well, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in a report that appears online today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Anti-Mullerian hormone may predict age at menopause
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37873
Age at menopause may now be predicted more realistically according to a new study accepted for publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
Scientists to test if chocolate cuts diabetes heart disease risk in women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37862
Scientists in Britain are calling for volunteers to test whether chocolate can reduce the risk of heart disease in women with diabetes.
Chocolate good for pregnant women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37858
According to scientific research in the U.S. eating chocolate, especially dark chocolate, during pregnancy is good for mother and baby.
Fosamax use linked to atrial fibrillation in women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37835
Women who have used Fosamax are nearly twice as likely to develop the most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) than are those who have never used it, according to research from Group Health and the University of Washington published in the April 28 Archives of Internal Medicine.
Researchers identify new genes that help predict breast cancer outcomes
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37834
Not a day goes by without a new story about the environment. Although we often consider the environment on a global scale, cells in our body also have to contend with environmental factors.
Thyrotropin levels may be associated with coronary heart disease mortality in women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37833
Women with increasing levels of thyrotropin within the normal range appear to have a higher risk of fatal coronary heart disease, according to a report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Exercise helps lower heart disease risk in overweight women
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37832
The risk of heart disease in women associated with being overweight or obese is reduced but not eliminated by higher levels of physical activity, according to a report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Hormone therapy in postmenopausal women associated with increased risk of stroke
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37831
Postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy appear to have an increased risk of stroke regardless of when they started treatment, according to a report in the April 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Soaring rates of pregnant women with diabetes
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37813
According to the latest research from the U.S. the number of pregnant women with diabetes has more than doubled in the last six years.
Survey suggests 65% of women in the U.S. could have an eating disorder
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37808
Researchers in the U.S. have discovered that as many as 65 percent of women between the ages of 25 to 45, have some form of eating disorder and another 10 percent admit to having eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa or binge eating.
Breakthrough blood test detects very early signs of breast cancer
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=37806
British researchers say a new blood test which is able to detect signs of breast cancer four years earlier than it would be picked up by a standard mammogram, could be available within months.

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