Archive for the ‘Womens' Health’ Category
Fifty Years After ‘The Pill,’ Adiana System Offers A Significant Advance In Birth Control Options
May 15th, 2010 Posted 1:00 am
Hologic, Inc., (Hologic or the Company) (Nasdaq: HOLX), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics products, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, celebrates a new era of birth control options for women today with the availability of its Adiana® permanent contraception system…
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Pregnancy (STDs)
May 8th, 2010 Posted 9:00 pm
Title: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Pregnancy (STDs)
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 1/31/2005 4:59:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 12/9/2010
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Losing Weight Quickly Gives More Lasting Results, Study
May 7th, 2010 Posted 11:00 pm
If you thought the best way to lose and maintain weight was the slow and steady approach, think again. A new study by Lisa Nackers and colleagues, from the University of Florida in the US, suggests that the key to long-term weight loss and maintenance is to lose weight quickly, not gradually, in the initial stages of obesity treatment…
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What Is Triple X Syndrome? What Causes Triple X Syndrome?
April 30th, 2010 Posted 11:00 pm
Triple X syndrome, also known as Trisomy X, 47,XXX aneuploidy, and Triplo-X, XXX Syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality that affects approximately 1 in every 1,000 females. A healthy female has two X chromosomes, one from her father and one from her mother. A female with triple-X syndrome has three X chromosomes…
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Down Syndrome
April 28th, 2010 Posted 11:00 pm
Title: Down Syndrome
Category: Diseases and Conditions
Created: 12/31/1997
Last Editorial Review: 4/29/2010
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Biogas Technology With Potential To Save Thousands Of Lives Featured At Texas Event
April 23rd, 2010 Posted 11:00 pm
About 1.6 million people — mostly women and children — die each year from indoor air pollution caused by cooking and heating with wood, dung, coal or crop waste, according to the World Health Organization…
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Youngest Preemies’ Survival Rate Unchanged
April 22nd, 2010 Posted 11:00 pm
Title: Youngest Preemies’ Survival Rate Unchanged
Category: Health News
Created: 4/22/2010 4:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/23/2010
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CycleBeads To Aid Conception
April 16th, 2010 Posted 11:00 pm
A scientifically-based tool developed by researchers from Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health to help women prevent pregnancy naturally, is now being used by a growing number of women to help plan pregnancy…
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Chlamydia Often Overlooked in Young Men
April 15th, 2010 Posted 11:00 pm
Title: Chlamydia Often Overlooked in Young Men
Category: Health News
Created: 4/15/2010 12:10:00 PM
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2010
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Brain-Hormone Circuit That Helps Police Diabetes, Female Fertility
April 10th, 2010 Posted 12:00 am
New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggest that the hormones leptin and insulin work together in specific neurons in the hypothalamus region of the brain to affect both the regulation of blood sugar levels in the body and, surprisingly, female fertility. “Many people, and even many physicians, think you develop diabetes that is solely secondary to obesity,” said Dr…
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