When Kylie Jenner famously admitted that her signature pout was the result of lip fillers, there was a significant increase in interest and uptake of the cosmetic procedure. That’s the power of social media. But why is social media so persuasive and what is driving young women’s attitudes to cosmetic surgery?
Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, today announced it will host a MORE THAN PINK Walk in Dallas on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. The events will raise critical funds that support breast cancer patients, advance research and provide patient navigation services to better serve those impacted by the disease.
Cedars-Sinai maternal-fetal medicine leader Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH, is the new chair of the California Pregnancy-Associated Review Committee (CA-PARC).
Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, today announced a MORE THAN PINK Walk in Oklahoma City will be held on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. The events will raise critical funds that support breast cancer patients, advance research and provide patient navigation services to better serve those impacted by the disease.
Women aged 18 to 44 living in states that outlaw Sunday liquor sales or driving with a blood alcohol concentration greater than .08 drink less than their counterparts in other states, according to a new study recently published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.
First-of-its-kind study associated exposure to extreme heat and severe maternal morbidity. The implications of this is dire with extreme heat episodes becoming more and more frequent with our climate changing.
Giving free prenatal iron supplements to medically underserved pregnant patients rather than only recommending them significantly reduced anemia and postpartum blood transfusions, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Health report in a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Yale researchers have shown that placental examination resulted in the accurate pathologic determination of more than 90% of previously unexplained pregnancy losses, a discovery that they say may inform pregnancy care going forward.
Compared to other high-income countries, the U.S. has a high rate of maternal mortality, and in Utah, substance use is the leading cause of pregnancy-related death. With $14 million in support over seven years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the University of Utah ELEVATE Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence aims to reverse that trend. The center is committed to partnering with the communities that are affected most, including rural and Native American populations, to change the story for mothers with substance use disorders in Utah and throughout the country.
While both men and women have historically been accused of the malicious use of magic, only around 10–30% of suspected witches were men by the 16th and 17th centuries.
من الممكن أن يتسبب انقطاع الطمث في سلسلة من الأعراض بدايةً من هَبَّات الحرارة والتعرّق الليلي وصولًا إلى زيادة الوزن. ولكن هل من الممكن أن يسبب مشكلات في الذاكرة؟ تشرح الدكتورة جولبانا كلبنج، دكتور في الطب، المدير المساعد لمركزمايو كلينك لصحة المرأةفي أريزونا الصلة بين انقطاع الطمث وتشوّش الدماغ.
A menopausa pode trazer um conjunto de sintomas, como ondas de calor e transpiração noturna até ganho de peso. Mas ela causa problemas com a memória?
La menopausia puede provocar una variedad de síntomas, desde sofocos y sudoración nocturna hasta aumento de peso. Pero, ¿puede causar problemas de memoria?
By: Mark Blackwell Thomas | Published: September 15, 2023 | 10:40 am | SHARE: With Healthy Aging month in full swing, one of the preeminent fields of research at Florida State University is in the spotlight. FSU’s history of prioritizing healthy aging and producing cutting-edge research in the field dates back decades. At FSU, healthy aging research is defined in large part by a multidisciplinary approach in which researchers and experts from across colleges and departments engage in solving some of the field’s most pressing challenges — and maximizing its many opportunities.
Zachary Schug, Ph.D., assistant professor at The Wistar Institute, has published a new paper in the journal Nature Cancer demonstrating a double-acting mechanism for fighting a particularly aggressive, difficult-to-treat form of breast cancer.
Pregnant women with a history of substance abuse face a dramatically increased risk of death from heart attack and stroke during childbirth when compared with women without history of substance abuse, a new Smidt Heart Institute study shows.
Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health in the Department of Mental Health Tiara Willie and Associate Professor and Associate Director of the PhD and Postdoctoral programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Kamila Alexander will join U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and U.S. Representative Bonnie Watson-Coleman (D-NJ) on September 20, 2023, at 6 p.m. in the Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C., and on livestream for a discussion about policy innovations to protect the lives of Black women and girls in the U.S.
Researchers from Western and Brown University have made groundbreaking progress towards identifying the root cause and potential therapy for preeclampsia.
The review, conducted jointly with researchers from Oxford University, the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, and the Princess Anne Hospital in Southampton, included seven randomised controlled trials involving 2,464 women or couples who had been trying to conceive.
Em um ensaio aleatório, publicado na revista The Lancet Oncology, os pesquisadores do Centro de Câncer da Mayo Clinic revelaram evidências que respaldam um menor período de tratamento para pacientes com câncer de mama.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا — في تجربة عشوائية نُشرت في مجلة "لانسيت للأورام" (The Lancet Oncology) اكتشف الباحثون في مركز مايو كلينك الشامل للسرطان أدلة تدعم تقليص فترة العلاج لمريضات سرطان الثدي. قارنت الدراسة جدولين منفصلين للجرعات من العلاج بالبروتونات بالمسح الشعاعي القلمي، وهو النوع الأكثر تقدمًا من العلاج بالبروتونات المعروف بدقته في استهداف الخلايا السرطانية مع الحفاظ على الأنسجة السليمة لتقليل مخاطر الآثار الجانبية.
En un ensayo aleatorizado, publicado en The Lancet Oncology, los investigadores del Centro Oncológico Integral de Mayo Clinic descubren evidencia que respalda un menor período de tratamiento para pacientes con cáncer de mama.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and University Hospitals (UH) will study whether a new magnetic resonance imaging exam can predict how chemotherapy’s effectiveness for a woman with breast cancer based on a single round of treatment.
Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, today announced it will host a MORE THAN PINK Walk in Arkansas this fall. The Northwest Arkansas MORE THAN PINK Walk will take place on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023.
For Camryn Masera, age 21, postpartum depression hit her hard about a month after her baby’s birth. As a result of a traumatic delivery six weeks early, Masera had a hard time comprehending that she even gave birth for a couple weeks.
In this interview, Dr. Salani, who is also a professor of obstetrics and gynecology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, talks about the latest research advances for these cancers and how women can help reduce their risk and help with the early detection of the five main types of gynecologic cancers: cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal and vulvar.
A new diagnostic scoring system, developed by renowned breast cancer experts, is now available as an easy-to-use online tool through Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization. This tool will help health care providers recognize and effectively diagnose a rare and aggressive breast cancer, inflammatory breast cancer.
Women searching on how to give themselves abortions could lead to increased injuries in states where abortion is prohibited.
UChicago researchers recently unveiled a potential new PCOS treatment that restored ovarian function and improved hormonal and metabolic regulation in mice.
Angie Choi, a 2015 graduate of UA Little Rock, has written a book detailing how she survived her battle with ovarian cancer using a combination of conventional and alternative medicine.
In a randomized trial, published in The Lancet Oncology, Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers uncover evidence supporting a shorter treatment time for breast cancer patients.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that living in an area with high levels of particulate air pollution was associated with an increased incidence of breast cancer.
Suicide rates have increased by nearly 40% over the past 20 years but, according to Carletta Vicain, associate director of Employee Assistance at Cedars-Sinai, suicides are preventable.
A new Yale Cancer Center study finds a targeted diet and exercise intervention could improve outcomes for women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer.
“One of the main takeaways,” said lead author Anna Fiastro, a family medicine research scientist at UW Medicine, “is that the further patients are from a brick-and-mortar clinic, the more likely they are to use telehealth to access medication abortion.”
The ketogenic (keto) diet may lower testosterone levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), according to a new paper published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.
In findings with potentially important implications for cervical cancer screening, scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center (MECC) have developed a test for detecting a type of cervical cancer that Pap tests often miss. The findings published online today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI).
University of Illinois scientists received a new $1.9 million NIH grant to investigate the role of glycogen in supporting healthy pregnancies.
Among African American and other Black cisgender women, a beauty salon–based intervention improved knowledge and awareness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV and increased trust in it.
For the 314,000 people diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year, hope often comes in the form of platinum-based drugs such as cisplatin.
Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, will be hosting the annual 2023 Inland Empire MORE THAN PINK Walk on Sunday, October 8, 2023. The annual Walk will be held again at Town Square Park in Murrieta.
A 2021 study revealed that just three National Basketball Association team orthopedic surgeons were women. By the spring of 2022, UTHealth Houston's Bonnie Gregory, MD, had joined them.
سيمر واحد من بين ثلاثة أطفال بتجربة صادمة أو ضاغطة نفسيًا مرة واحدة على الأقل أثناء فترة الطفولة والتي تشمل تجارب مثل طلاق الأبوين أو إدمان أحد أفراد الأسرة للمخدرات أو الكحول، وذلك وفقًا لأحدث آخر استبيان وطني لصحة الأطفال. وقد وجد باحثو مايو كلينك في دراسة حديثة أن تجارب الطفولة المؤذية هذه قد ترتبط بإصابة النساء بالخمول والضعف الجنسي في مرحلة لاحقة من حياتهن. وقد نُشرت النتائج التي توصلوا إليها في مجلة الطب الجنسي.
Uma em cada três crianças terá pela menos uma experiência estressante ou traumática na infância, incluindo experiências como o divórcio dos pais ou ter um membro da família envolvido com problemas relacionados a drogas ou álcool, de acordo com a mais recente Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde Infantil (National Survey of Children's Health, NSCH).
The Foundation for Women’s Cancer (FWC) recognizes September as Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month annually, and this year is sharing an array of impactful resources aimed at raising awareness about gynecologic cancers and promoting education. FWC provides free educational materials and informative trainings and webinars year-round, and this month will be featuring new and existing resources for those at risk to develop gyn cancer, as well as gyn cancer patients, caregivers, survivors, and health care professionals.
Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, will be hosting the return of the 2023 Bay Area MORE THAN PINK Walk on Sunday, October 1, 2023, at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens.
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