Feature Channels: Women's Health

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La regeneración del músculo esquelético y los síntomas de la incontinencia urinaria por esfuerzo en una investigación preclínica indican una mejora tras el uso de una sustancia acelular descubierta en Mayo Clinic. Los equipos del Dr. en Ciencias Atta Behfar y del Dr. Emanuel Trabuco encabezaron esta investigación en una colaboración entre los Departamentos de Medicina Cardiovascular y de Obstetricia y Ginecología de Mayo Clinic. El artículo se ha publicado en NPJ Regenerative Medicine.

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临床前研究中的再生骨骼肌和压力性尿失禁的症状表明，在使用妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic) 发现的无细胞物质后，症状有所改善。Atta Behfar医学博士/博士和Emanuel Trabuco医学博士的团队在妙佑医疗国际心血管医学部和妇产科之间开展合作，领导了这项研究。这篇论文发表在NPJ Regenerative Medicine上。

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Músculo esquelético regenerado e sintomas de incontinência urinária por esforço em pesquisa pré-clínica sugerem melhora após o uso de uma substância livre de células descoberta na Mayo Clinic. As esquipes do Dr. Atta Behfar, Ph.D. e do Dr. Emanuel Trabuco lideram a pesquisa em uma colaboração entre os Departamentos de Medicina Cardiovascular e de Obstetrícia e Ginecologia da Mayo Clinic. O artigo foi publicado na revista NPJ Regenerative Medicine.

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Research from Quing Zhu’s lab yields a novel method to use ultrasound to enhance machine learning's ability to accurately diagnose - or rule out - ovarian cancer.

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Giving some homeless mothers with young children a place to live may do little to help them if it is not combined with support services, a first-of-its-kind study showed.

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Analysis showed that in 2019 more than 1.3 million women received cervical cancer screening-associated services, such as a Pap test, colposcopy and other cervical procedures, after age 65. While these services cost more than $83 million, the researchers concluded they were of “unclear clinical appropriateness.”

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Basal-like breast cancers, also known as triple-negative cancers, are an aggressive breast cancer subtype with poor treatment options.

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Nearly 1 in 7 Americans experience bloating on a weekly basis, and most aren’t seeking professional care for it, according to a new study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators. The findings are published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

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A UT Southwestern study of more than 1,300 pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19 found that just 1 in 10 developed moderate, severe, or critical illness and that COVID-19 symptoms and severity were similar across all trimesters.

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A team of researchers mapping a molecular atlas for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has made a major advance toward distinguishing whether the early pre-cancers in the breast will develop into invasive cancers or remain stable.

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Preclinical study suggests that a class of new drugs already in clinical trials might work especially well in breast cancer patients who have acquired the so-called Y537S mutation signals that their disease has taken an aggressive course and may become resistant to endocrine therapy

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Irvine, Calif., Nov. 17, 2022 – Pregnant women exposed to a green space environment in a virtual reality setting experienced decreases in blood pressure and improvements in mental health and well-being, according to a study led by the University of California, Irvine.  In a paper recently published in Environmental Research, co-corresponding author Jun Wu, Ph.

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Pregnant trauma patients with certain injury patterns—including multiple injuries, injuries to the head, face, neck, and scalp, and multiple contusions—should be screened for intimate partner violence (IPV), according to study results published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).

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It is difficult to assess brain health status and risk of cognitive impairment, particularly at the initial evaluation. To address this, researchers have developed the Brain Health Platform to quantify brain health and identify Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.

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National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology collaborate to address policy and practice solutions to increase equitable access for breast cancer care, starting in Argentina and then expanding more broadly.

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A published study that assessed anxiety and depressive symptoms in pregnant women from seven Western countries during the first major wave of the Covid-19 pandemic shows that stress from fears about Covid-19 led to anxiety and depressive symptoms above normal levels.

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Black, Indigenous and other women of color who were pregnant or gave birth during the pandemic said these experiences were overshadowed by isolation, confusion and fear, much of it caused by unclear or frequently changing institutional policies, according to a new study.

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An analysis of more than 2,400 women who did not have high blood pressure while pregnant found that about 1 in 10 were diagnosed with high blood pressure in the year after childbirth.

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Renowned preterm birth expert to lead efforts to improve women’s health and educate and empower women researchers

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For the last 20 years, however, Dr. Susan Reed and other clinicians who treat menopausal symptoms have had to fence with recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a body that provides guidance for medication use with such chronic disease conditions as osteoporosis, heart disease, dementia and diabetes.

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New research from Yale Cancer Center identified that two simple biomarkers, immune cells and estrogen receptor levels, could differentiate which young women with ER+ breast cancer need chemotherapy to improve their survival, and which only need a monthly injection to suppress ovarian function.The findings were recently published in npjBreast, Nature Partner Journals.

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Hosted by Chulalongkorn University the APRU APEC University Leaders' Forum 2022 is the first post-pandemic in-person APEC meeting held to foster high-level dialogue between CEOs, policy leaders, university presidents, and top researchers. This event begins Nov 15 at 9 PM EST.

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Investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) have discovered that at the time of total knee replacement, women have significantly increased levels of immune cells called mast cells in synovial tissue surrounding the knee joint than men. Their findings, presented today at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, ACR Convergence 2022, may help future research explore why women with knee osteoarthritis report worse pain than men.

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Penn Medicine experts have worked with local partners to improve health care in Botswana for years. Now, a new $3.5 million grant from the NCI will help further that work by addressing one of Botswana’s most serious health challenges: cervical cancer.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded researchers Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft and Denise Wilfley a grant to help improve outcomes for eating disorders in adolescent girls.

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center have discovered factors that may make breast and ovarian cancers associated with BRCA1/2 gene mutations more likely to recur.

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Dimension Inx, a regenerative biomaterials company, and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago have been jointly awarded an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant.

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Can mind-body practices such as gentle yoga or self-reflection benefit patients undergoing surgery? It’s a question that researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine are examining with the support of a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

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In a study of pregnant women in the United States, Cedars-Sinai investigators found that a specific imbalance of two placental proteins could predict which women were at risk of developing a severe form of preeclampsia, a life-threatening blood pressure disorder.

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Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Arthritis channel on Newswise.

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Pregnant people who received one of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines had 10-fold higher antibody concentrations than those who were naturally infected with SARS-CoV-2, a finding that was also observed in their babies, according to a new study by researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania. The study, published today in JAMA Network Open, also found that vaccine timing played an important role in maximizing the transfer of antibodies, with antibodies detected as early as 15 days after the first vaccine dose and increasing for several weeks after.

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Antibiotics routinely used in ovarian cancer care indiscriminately kill gut bacteria, leading to faster cancer progression and lower survival rates, according to recent Cleveland Clinic research.

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New research presented this week at ACR Convergence, the American College of Rheumatology’s annual meeting, found that most echocardiography screening for fetal congenital heart block in anti-Ro- and anti-La-positive pregnancies did not follow recommended guidelines in one academic medical center.

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In the battle of the sexes, women beat men in their ability to recover from kidney injury, but the reasons are not well understood. A study led by Duke Health researchers provides some insights: Females, it turns out, have an advantage at the molecular level that protects them from a form of cell death that occurs in injured kidneys. This protection could be exploited as a potential therapeutic.

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The researchers identified a mechanism that generated a cancer-promoting inflammatory environment in response to chemotherapy. Based on this discovery, they developed a treatment combination that reduced the incidence of lung metastasis following chemotherapy from 52% to only 6%.

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Bayır is internationally known for her transformative work in neuronal injury, oxidative lipidomics, and lipid-based biomarker discovery, which will lead the way to novel redox therapies to protect the brains of critically ill patients.

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Biases in heart disease and metabolic disorder—also known as cardiometabolic—studies are putting the lives of midlife Black and Hispanic women in jeopardy.

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Honor recognizes her dedication to effectively mentoring female cardiologists