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New research suggests a direct interaction between cigarette smoke carcinogens and the human papillomavirus that may lead to increased risk of cervical cancer.
ScienceDaily (Jan. 23, 2008) — For the first time researchers from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine suggest a direct interaction between cigarette smoke carcinogens and the human papillomavirus that may lead to increased risk of cervical cancer. They report their findings in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of Virology.
Cervical cancer is the third leading cancer type in women worldwide. Over 90% of the cases presented have been linked to human papillomavirus (HPV). Many women unknowingly carry HPV and the virus naturally regresses on its own over time. HPV will only progress into cervical cancer in a small percentage of women, but past studies have proposed cigarette smoking to be a likely influence.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Women's Health on January 25, 2008 - י"ח שבט תשס"ח at 6:44 am
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From HealthNewsDigest.com, Dec 24, 2007
Top Five Women’s Health Stories of 2007 as Selected by the Society for Women’s Health Research
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Society for Women’s Health Research announced its top five women’s health stories of 2007 today. The list covers advances of particular interest to women and new sex-specific treatments.
“The medical news in 2007 show how important it is that researchers continue to focus on women’s health and sex differences,” said Phyllis Greenberger, M.S.W, president and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research, a Washington, D.C., based advocacy organization. “We applaud the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation for forging a national consensus on ovarian cancer symptoms. And we commend cardiologists working to answer questions about sex differences in heart disease. We look forward to more advances in 2008.”
The top women’s health stories of 2007 as determined by the Society for Women’s Health Research are:
1. First Consensus on Ovarian Cancer Symptoms
The Gynecologic Cancer Foundation (GCF) announced in June the first national consensus on ovarian cancer symptoms. Ovarian cancer has been long considered a silent killer because of the perceived lack of warning signs. According to GCF, ovarian cancer is the fifth deadliest cancer among U.S. women killing 15,000 annually. There is a 90 percent cure rate when women are diagnosed in Stage I of the disease. The announcement and promotion of the consensus statement should lead to earlier diagnosis and earlier intervention for many women.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Recent Posts, Women's Health on December 25, 2007 - ט"ז טבת תשס"ח at 6:19 pm
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Those of childbearing age risk neural tube defects in babies without it, study says
THURSDAY, May 10 (HealthDay News) — There are racial and ethnic differences among U.S. women of childbearing age in the intake of folic acid, which can prevent serious neural tube defects that affect the brain and spinal cord.
That finding is published in the May issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Nutrition & Fitness, Recent Posts, Special Education, Women's Health on May 11, 2007 - כ"ג אייר תשס"ז at 12:14 pm
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In the fight against breast cancer, researchers are discovering the benefits of regular exercise before and after the dreadful diagnosis
By Carolyn M. Kaelin, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S., and Francesca Coltrera
Newsweek, March 26, 2007 Issue
Four times a week, Anne Rinn, 28, a psychology professor in Bowling Green, Ky., whose mother died of breast cancer, goes to kickboxing, aerobics or Pilates classes. Liz Usborne, a 64-year-old breast-cancer survivor, lobs tennis balls over the net and circuit-trains at a women’s gym near her home in Bonita, Calif. The thread binding them? Concern about getting—or surviving and thriving after—breast cancer.
The American Cancer Society estimates that this year, 241,000 women will learn they have breast cancer and 40,000 women will die of it. Fortunately, a growing list of effective therapies developed during the past decade has helped extend lives, one reason that deaths from breast cancer have been dropping slowly since 1990. Living among us are more than 2 million women who have undergone breast-cancer treatments. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Nutrition & Fitness, Recent Posts, Women's Health on March 23, 2007 - ד' ניסן תשס"ז at 11:19 am
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Premature birth, the leading cause of infant deaths in the U.S., is on the rise. What researchers are learning about why babies are born early, and what women need to know to have a healthy pregnancy.
By Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert, Newsweek, March 5, 2007
March 5, 2007 - Late last month, a teeny tiny preemie named Amillia Taylor was discharged from a Miami children’s hospital. Her story made headlines because no baby born earlier than 22 weeks gestation had ever before survived long enough to be discharged. Stories like hers are uplifting reminders that miracles do happen.
But it should also be a reminder that no pregnant woman can count on miracles. Despite Amillia’s spectacular survival, experts don’t expect to send home any other babies born at 21 or 22 weeks anytime soon. After all, Amillia’s triumph was not achieved because doctors found a way to further lower the line of viability, which has been hovering for more than two decades between 23 and 24 weeks gestation. (This is the point at which most babies’ lungs first develop the capacity to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide on their own). It happened because Amillia’s maturation was astoundingly (and unexplainably) accelerated. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Recent Posts, Special Education, Women's Health on March 6, 2007 - ט"ז אדר תשס"ז at 9:56 am
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Their ability to predict fractures in postmenopausal women is questionable, study finds
Health Daily News, January 23, 2007
TUESDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) — Doing a follow-up bone mineral density (BMD) scan up to eight years after an initial scan doesn’t improve doctors’ ability to predict fractures in healthy older postmenopausal women, a U.S. study finds.
Currently, guidelines recommend the use of BMD measurements to screen for osteoporosis in women when they reach age 65. There’s little evidence to support the use of repeat BMD testing in order to assess a woman’s fracture risk, but repeat BMD scans are commonly performed in clinical practice, according to background information in the study. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Recent Posts, Women's Health on January 24, 2007 - ה' שבט תשס"ז at 8:20 am
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Awareness about human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and its link to cervical cancer, is relatively low among American women, according to a survey of 3,076 women 18 to 75 years of age.
Only 40 percent of women responding to the 2005 Health Information National Trends Survey had ever heard about HPV and, of those, less than 20 percent knew that HPV could sometimes lead to cervical cancer.
Sixty-four percent of women knew that HPV was sexually transmitted and 79 percent knew it could cause abnormal Pap smears. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Recent Posts, Women's Health on November 15, 2006 - כ"ד חשון תשס"ז at 1:10 pm
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By Shmuel Shapira, Israel 21C, October 29, 2006
Shmuel Shapira is a professor, Hadassah University Hospital Deputy Director General and Director of Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health
Israel has been always in the front of world clinical medicine, medical sciences and biotechnology. And in the last five years major promising scientific contributions have originated from different Israeli hospitals and faculties of medicine which are having worldwide implications. Here are just a few of the highlights which my medical and scientific colleagues at Israeli hospitals and research centers have been part of:
Ovarian tissue transplant
In a breakthrough that provides hope for woman undergoing chemotherapy during their fertile years, for the first time in the world, a cancer patient who had become sterile due to anti cancer chemotherapy treatment gave birth after undergoing a transplant of ovarian tissue. The ovarian slices had been taken from her body prior to initiation of chemotherapy treatment and preserved by freezing them.
Behind the stunning medical advance were Dr. Dror Meirow, Prof. Jehoshua Dor, and Dr. Jacob Levron of the IVF Fertility Unit at Sheba Medical Center. The global breakthrough was reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2005. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Health Sciences, Men's Health, Women's Health on November 1, 2006 - י' חשון תשס"ז at 2:17 pm
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United Nations (New York) | September 5, 2006
(ArabMedicare.com News) UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity, expresses its deep concern about recent reports of delays at Israeli checkpoints of women in labour, which have resulted in forced roadside births, and even death of some women and infants. It urges that civilians with urgent needs should have access to health facilities and that humanitarian organizations be allowed to work freely to alleviate the suffering of the people, especially women and children. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, Women's Health on October 29, 2006 - ז' חשון תשס"ז at 9:16 am
