In what will be welcome news to millions of women suffering from breast cancer, trials of a new drug have found it lowers oestrogen levels in women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer and has the potential to save more than 1,000 lives a year in the UK alone.The researchers found that switching from the breast cancer treatment Tamoxifen to the new drug Exemestane after two or three years resulted in death rates falling by 17 per cent.The findings are the result of a study involving 4,742...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Changing the way women are treated for breast cancer could improve their overall chance of survival, according to research published in the Lancet. The new paper shows that switching to a drug called exemestane, two to three years after commencing standard therapy with the drug tamoxifen, can cut the risk of death for certain women by a further 17% compared with using tamoxifen alone. Postmenopausal women with early-stage hormone-sensit...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Thirty-two Texas lawmakers last Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Rick Perry (R) reiterating their plea for him to rescind an executive order that would mandate vaccination against human papillomavirus for girls entering the sixth grade, the AP/Dallas ...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Women who donate their eggs for stem cell research or in vitro fertilization are not at increased risk of health complications, and most of the risks are a result of the hormones used to stimulate their bodies to release more than one egg, according to a report commissioned by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and released by the Institute of...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Voters in Portugal on Sunday approved a referendum to legalize abortions during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, but the referendum is invalid because fewer than half of the country's registered voters cast a ballot, the ...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
States in 2007 have budgeted about $13 million in public funds to subsidize family planning services and pregnancy centers in an attempt to dissuade women from seeking abortions, the ...Tuesday, 13-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
According to researchers at Yale School of Medicine in the United States, women who have a baby when they are aged 40 or over are three times more likely to experience a stillbirth.The researchers say such women should have more checks for stillbirth.The researchers also found that fetal testing at 38 weeks has the greatest impact at reducing stillbirth rates in older women.Older pregnant women are at more risk for a number o...Monday, 12-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Researchers at the 27th Annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) meeting announced that high-dose progesterone treatment helped at-risk pregnant women avoid premature delivery. A preterm birth can have serious consequences to the baby, including cerebral palsy, mental retardation, lung disease, blindness and hearing loss. In this study, 45 women who experienced premature labor (before 37 weeks gestation) were randomly divided into treatment and observation groups. The treatment g...Sunday, 11-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
African-American women are three times more likely to deliver babies three to 17 weeks prematurely than Caucasian women, according to a review of Missouri birth statistics by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. In addition, African-American women are more likely to deliver babies prematurely in subsequent pregnancies. The researchers analyzed data from the Missouri Department of Health's maternally linked d...Sunday, 11-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]
Pregnancy at age 40 and beyond is an independent risk factor for intrauterine fetal demise or stillbirth, according to an abstract presented by Yale School of Medicine researchers at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Conference February 10 in San Francisco. The researchers also found that fetal testing at 38 weeks gestation has the greatest impact at reducing stillbirth rates in older women.Pregnant patients of advanced matern...Sunday, 11-Feb-2007 / [ Details... ]