A new risk score can identify men and women under age 50 most likely to develop a cancer of the colon or rectum, an international study shows.
As researchers continue to seek effective treatment options for menopause symptoms as alternatives to proven pharmacologic solutions, a number of innovative therapies have been shown to improve symptoms.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (January 26, 2022) — Signs of inflammation in the blood reliably predict and identify severe depression in pregnancy, reports a new study led by scientists at Van Andel Institute and Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services.
• At the start of a study of older adults with advanced kidney disease, women had lower average physical and mental health-related quality-of-life scores compared with men. • Over time, however, both physical and mental scores declined approximately twice as fast in men than in women.
Women ages 35 years and younger were 44% more likely to have an ischemic stroke (caused by blocked blood vessels in the brain) than their male counterparts, according to a new review of more than a dozen international studies on sex differences in stroke occurrence, published today in a Go Red for Women® 2022 spotlight issue of Stroke, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.
Researchers from University of Illinois Chicago have received funding to study a novel diagnostic kit for preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is pregnancy-related hypertension that can occur at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Left untreated, preeclampsia can disrupt fetal growth and lead to preterm birth and stillbirth. In mothers, it can also cause kidney and liver failure and culminate in seizures, coma and death.
Spousal education is positively related to people’s overall health, with an effect size that rivals the impact of a person’s own education, Indiana University study finds.
Researchers in a multi-institution study led by UCLA Health call for more research as well as customized treatments, education and support to empower women living with Parkinson’s disease to address their unmet medical needs.
Pelvic girdle pain (PGP) is a common condition causing pain and physical impairment, which can occur during and/or after pregnancy and delivery. A new clinical practice guideline for physical therapy practice for PGP in the postpartum period (PGP-PP) is presented in the Journal of Women's Health Physical Therapy (JWHPT). The official journal of the Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapy (APHPT) of the American Physical Therapy Association, JWHPT is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health study reports that the more steps taken, and the more intense, the lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes among women 65 and older.
A study led by UC Davis has found significant gut bacteria profile differences between Black and white women, even after accounting for their insulin sensitivity status.
Researchers at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health’s Perinatology Research Branch in Detroit have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may cause fetal inflammation even in the absence of placental infection.
A new nationwide study led by Penn State College of Medicine found that women with obesity and unexplained infertility who lost weight prior to starting infertility treatments did not have a greater chance of having a healthy baby than those who did not lose weight prior to starting therapy.
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In the largest observational study to date investigating changes in sleep and biological rhythms during the peripartum period, researchers identified several variables that are linked to depression and anxiety. Most notably, changes in the circadian quotient (the strength of the circadian rhythms), the average amount of activity during nighttime rest, and the amount of fragmentation of nighttime rest were strongly linked to higher depressive and anxiety symptoms.Researchers recruited 100 women, 73 of whom they followed from the start of the third trimester to three months postpartum. They analyzed subjective and objective measures of sleep, biological rhythms, melatonin levels, and light exposure using a variety of tools, including questionnaires, actigraphs (wearable sleep monitors), laboratory assays, and other methods.
Rates of cervical cancer screening have dropped in the U.S., with screening rates lowest among Asian and Hispanic women, as well as women who live in rural areas, don’t have insurance, or identify as LGBQ+, according to researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston).
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا- أمراض القلب مثل مرض الشريان التاجي وعوامل الخطر القلبية الوعائية مثل مرض السكري وارتفاع الكوليسترول مرتبطة بشكل أقوى بتراجع الذاكرة ومهارات التفكير في منتصف العمر لدى النساء مقارنة بالرجال، بحسب دراسة أجرتها مايو كلينك، على الرغم من انتشار هذه الحالات بشكل أكبر بين الرجال. هذا البحث منشور في مجلة علم الأعصاب، المجلة الطبية للأكاديمية الأمريكية لطب الأعصاب.
妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic)的一项研究表明，相较于对男性的影响，心脏病（如冠状动脉疾病）和心血管风险因素（如糖尿病和高胆固醇）对中年女性记忆和思维能力下降的影响更甚，尽管这些疾病在男性中的患病率更高。这项研究已发表在美国神经病学学会的医学杂志《神经病学》（Neurology）上。
Problemas cardíacos como a doença arterial coronariana e fatores de risco cardiovasculares como diabetes e colesterol alto têm maior associação com declínio nas habilidades de memória e raciocínio durante a meia-idade para mulheres do que para homens, mostra um estudo da Mayo Clinic.
亲爱的妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic)：随着年龄的增长，医生给我开的药越来越多，比如血压和胆固醇的药物。另外，随着年龄的增长，我服用了一些用来提高记忆力、降低胆固醇和预防癌症的补充剂。我是否应该担心这些补充剂会与我的药物产生相互作用？
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: A medida que envejezco, los médicos me recetan más medicamentos, por ejemplo, para la presión arterial y el colesterol. Además, según me voy haciendo mayor, he decidido tomar suplementos que supuestamente mejoran la memoria, reducen el colesterol y previenen el cáncer.
السادة الأعزاء في مايو كلينك: مع تقدمي في السن، أعطاني الأطباء المزيد من الأدوية، مثل علاج ضغط الدم والكوليسترول. أيضًا، مع تقدمي في العمر، اخترت تناول بعض المكملات التي يُفترض أن تحسن ذاكرتي، وتقلل الكوليسترول وتقي من السرطان.
ESTIMADA MAYO CLINIC: conforme fui envelhecendo, os médicos passaram a me prescrever mais medicamentos para o controle da pressão sanguínea e colesterol, por exemplo.
Microvascular function, which is the measurement of how healthy the arteries are throughout a person’s body, is lower in Black women compared to white women throughout the menstrual cycle, according to researchers at the University of Delaware.
Women who have Covid-19 towards the end of their pregnancy are vulnerable to birth-related complications.
Las afecciones cardíacas, como la enfermedad arterial coronaria, y los factores de riesgo cardiovascular, como la diabetes y el colesterol alto, tienen una relación más fuerte con el deterioro de la capacidad de pensamiento y memoria en las mujeres de mediana edad que en los hombres
Being overweight may cause more hospital admissions and higher incidences of disease and mortality than previous studies report, according to new University of Bristol research. The study, published in Economics and Human Biology, used a genetic technique to identify the sole impact of body composition on hospital admissions from over 300,000 people.
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Gabriela Meléndez-Peláez, a Guatemalan nurse-midwife, maternal health advocate, and the Founder of Asociación Corazón del Agua, will receive the 2022 Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health for her tireless work in addressing maternal health inequities in Guatemala. The award ceremony will be held virtually on March 29, 2022.
When it comes to the link between socioeconomic status and health, perception can be as important as reality. A study published by the American Psychological Association finds that new mothers who see themselves as lower on the socioeconomic ladder have worse health outcomes one year after their child’s birth than new mothers who see themselves as higher status.
Menopause is often accompanied by an array of symptoms that can detract from a woman’s quality of life.
Metabolic differences could explain why some metastatic breast cancer cells rapidly generate tumors after migrating from primary tumors to the brain, while others linger for months or years before forming these secondary tumors, UT Southwestern scientists report in a new study. The findings, published in Cell Metabolism, highlight metabolic vulnerabilities in malignant cells that could eventually lead to new cancer therapies.
Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system. Patients who have active immune responses against cancer cells tend to have better outcomes, but much of what is known focuses on only one type of immune cell called T cells. In a new study published in Cancer Research, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers provide insight on the role of B cell immunity in endometrial cancer.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recently published studies in basic, translational and clinical cancer research from MD Anderson experts. Current advances include an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy to treat follicular lymphoma, targeted therapies for urothelial cancers and advanced breast cancers, understanding the tumor microenvironment and immune landscape in pancreatic cancer, a link between depression risk and androgen deprivation for prostate cancer, and the discovery of new therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s disease, liver cancer and aggressive breast cancer.
Understanding how cells die is key to developing new treatments for many diseases, whether the goal is to make cancer cells die or keep healthy cells alive in the face of other illnesses, such as massive infections or strokes. Two new studies from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a previously unrecognized pathway of cell death — named lysoptosis — and demonstrate how it could lead to new therapies for cervical cancer.
Exposure to phthalates—a group of chemicals found in everything from plastics to personal care products to electronics—may disrupt an important hormone needed to sustain a healthy pregnancy, according to a Rutgers study.
Managing your blood pressure is an important part of a healthy lifestyle, but for women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant in the new year, it is particularly crucial, especially in light of a new study showing chronic hypertension as a driver of maternal mortality in the U.S., a Rutgers obstetrician says.
Children conceived through medically assisted reproduction are more likely to be born premature and are at greater risk of being born small than naturally conceived babies, according to new research. However, the study of almost 250,000 U.S. families finds that differences in birth weight and pregnancy term between medically assisted reproduction (MAR) – including techniques such as IVF treatment, artificial insemination and fertility-enhancing drugs – and naturally conceived children become insignificant once family circumstances are considered.
A Mayo Clinic study shows heart conditions such as coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes and high cholesterol have stronger association with decline in memory and thinking skills during midlife for women than men. That's despite a higher prevalence of those conditions in men. The research is published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
A new study suggests that even though men may be more likely to have cardiovascular conditions like heart disease and stroke and risk factors like diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking in middle age than women, the negative impact of most of these conditions on thinking and memory skills may be stronger for women. The research is published in the January 5, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Brain injury is very common among survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), and these risks have been further heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, reports a qualitative study in the January/February special issue of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR). The official journal of the Brain Injury Association of America, JHTR is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
Chronic hypertension is contributing substantially to maternal deaths in the United States, with particular risk among Black women, according to new research from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
Cervical cancer is the only gynecologic cancer that can be prevented—and there are numerous tools to promote prevention including vaccines and tested strategies. James K. Aikins, Jr., MD, FACOG, FACS, chief of Gynecologic Oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and associate professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School shares more information about cervical cancer prevention through HPV vaccination, routine PAP tests and lifestyle choices.
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A novel analysis of medical records for a racially diverse group of more than 6,000 women has added to evidence that some combination of biological, social and cultural factors — and not race alone — is likely responsible for higher rates of preeclampsia among Black women born in the United States compared with Black women who immigrated to the country.
Cedars-Sinai scientists have revealed the origins of a common ovarian cancer by modeling fallopian tube tissues, allowing them to characterize how a genetic mutation puts women at high risk for this cancer. The created tissues, known as organoids, hold potential for predicting which individuals will develop ovarian cancer years or even decades in advance, allowing for early detection and prevention strategies.
For women undergoing breast augmentation, returning to exercise one week after surgery does not increase the risk of complications – but does lead to increased patient satisfaction, reports a clinical trial in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
Dr. Emily Godfrey is an OB-GYN at the UW School of Medicine. She has done research on the demand for abortion pills in different states. https://newsroom.uw.edu/postscript/pandemic-boosts-demand-postal-delivery-abortion-pill
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center studied outcomes for young women at a county hospital and found that while 97% of them accessed prenatal care, those with greater social needs were associated with adverse outcomes both during pregnancy and during the early weeks of their babies’ lives. The differences persisted even after adjusting for age, race, and body mass index.
Hormone levels in the womb before birth have been potentially linked to the risk of developing migraine in adulthood, reveals a new study of genetic and environmental information from the world’s largest database of twins.
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