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Gene Test, Preventive Surgery Save Women's Lives
MedicineNet: Women's Health General &bull Sep 1, 2010
Title: Gene Test, Preventive Surgery Save Women's Lives Category: Health News Created: 9/1/2010 10:55:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 9/1/2010 10:55:19 AM Full Story »
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Exercise can offset obesity-linked genes, study finds
LA Times: Health &bull Sep 1, 2010
Even people with a strong genetic predisposition to obesity can offset their risk of being overweight by being physically active, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine. British researchers examined the effects of 12 genetic variants… Full Story »
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Breast Cancer Gene Test, Preventive Surgery Save Women's Lives
WebMD: Women: Pregnancy &bull Aug 31, 2010Aug. 31, 2010 -- Women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 cancer genes cut their risk of death, breast cancer, and ovarian cancer by getting preventive surgery. Just a few months ago, 42-year-old Maxine Grossman, PhD, faced all these decisions.… Full Story »
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Breast, ovary removal found to raise cancer survival rates
LA Times: Health &bull Aug 31, 2010
Even if a patient has already been diagnosed with breast cancer, the surgery can reduce risk of dying, finds a study of women with two common breast cancer genes. Preemptive removal of breasts or ovaries in women with two common breast cancergenes can sharply reduce the risk of contracting cancer and dying, even if a woman has already been diagnosed… Full Story »
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Breast, ovary removal cuts cancer risk in high-risk women
CNN: Women's Health &bull Aug 31, 2010
The study, which appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association, confirms that preventive mastectomy and ovary removal can slash the risk of cancer in women carrying the BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 gene mutations, and it suggests that surgery is more effective than rigorous screening at preventing future cancer. Researchers at 22 cancer centers in the U.S. and Europe followed nearly 2,500 women with… Full Story »
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Brilinta Has Advantages Over Plavix for Heart
WebMD: Women: Pregnancy &bull Aug 30, 2010Aug. 30, 2010 (Stockholm, Sweden) -- The experimental blood-thinning pill Brilinta works regardless of whether patients have a genetic variant that is often associated with poor outcomes in patients taking the standard medication, Plavix, researchers report. Brilinta has recently been… Full Story »
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Gene Expression In The Fetal Mouse Ovary Altered By Exposure To Low Doses Of BPA
Pregnancy News & Obstetrics News from Medical News Today &bull Aug 28, 2010
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical used in plastics for making some baby and water bottles, linings of food and beverage cans, and other human consumer products. The mice in this study were given BPA at doses thought to be… Full Story »
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Diabetes-prone people at risk for Alzheimer's plaques
CNN: Women's Health &bull Aug 26, 2010
The researchers found that men and women in their 60s with higher-than-average levels of blood sugar (glucose) or insulin -- two signs of type 2 diabetes -- are between three and six times more likely to have certain protein deposits in their brains a decade or more later, according to the study, which appears… Full Story »
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Genetic Testing: Families with Breast Cancer
MedicineNet: Women's Health General &bull Aug 25, 2010
Ms. G. is a 40-year-old woman with two small children. Like most women, she is concerned about her chances of developing breast cancer. She asks her doctor about her risks. Although breast cancer is a worry for most women, Ms. G. is especially worried because of a family history of breast cancer. Her mother and sister had breast cancers that were diagnosed at young ages. A woman with a family history of breast cancer has a lot of concerns. Among other things, she is thinking… Full Story »
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Exposure to low doses of BPA alters gene expression in the fetal mouse ovary
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Aug 25, 2010
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical used in plastics for making some baby and water bottles, linings of food and beverage cans, and other human consumer products. The research, conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Patricia A. Hunt at Washington… Full Story »
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Sad mothers have small babies, rural Bangladesh study finds
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Aug 24, 2010
The research indicates that mental health issues are likely to be a primary contributor to infant mortality and poor child health, above poverty, malnutrition or low socio-economic status. A collaboration between researchers at the Karolinska Instituet in Sweden and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) assessed the mental… Full Story »
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Inner Workings of Gene Tied to Breast, Ovarian Cancer Revealed
MedicineNet: Women's Health General &bull Aug 23, 2010
Title: Inner Workings of Gene Tied to Breast, Ovarian Cancer Revealed Category: Health News Created: 8/22/2010 2:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 8/23/2010 Full Story »
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Prenatal exposure to pesticides linked to attention problems in children
Science Daily: Pregnancy and Childbirth News &bull Aug 19, 2010
The new findings, to be published Aug. 19 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), are the first to examine the influence of prenatal organophosphate exposure on the later development of attention problems. The researchers found that prenatal levels of organophosphate metabolites were significantly linked to attention problems at age 5, with the effects apparently stronger among boys. Earlier this year, a different study by researchers at Harvard University associated greater exposure to organophosphate pesticides in school-aged children with higher rates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. These studies provide a growing body of evidence that organophosphate pesticide exposure… Full Story »
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Yes, You Can Leave Your Kids in the Car for a Few Minutes
AOL: Parent Dish &bull Aug 17, 2010
Children dying in hot cars: Terrible. Passersby calling the cops every time they see a kid waiting in a car: Also very bad. Why? Why shouldn't we all be screaming at the moms and dads who leave their kids in the car while they pick up a pizza or… Full Story »
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Avenue opens for new ovarian cancer drugs
The Daily Telegraph: Health: Women's &bull Aug 17, 2010
New drugs could be developed to hit ovarian cancer with a double blast, scientists have said after identifying a key protein in 'runaway' cell division. At present the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, also known by its brand names Paxol and Abraxane,… Full Story »
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Medical treatment carries possible side effect of limiting homosexuality
LA Times: Health &bull Aug 15, 2010
A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation. Each year in the United States, perhaps a few dozen pregnant women learn they are carrying a fetus at risk for a rare disorder known as congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The condition causes an accumulation of male hormones and can, in females, lead to genitals so masculinized that it can be difficult at birth to determine the baby's gender. A hormonal treatment to prevent ambiguous genitalia can now be offered… Full Story »
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7-Imp's 7 Kicks #180: Featuring Marije and Ronald Tolman (Oh, and Help Me Wish Eisha a Happy Birthday, Won't You?)
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast &bull Aug 15, 2010I'm so pleased to be featuring the illustrations this morning from one of my top-five favorite picture books of 2010. Oh yes, I have formed such a geek-tacular list in my head! The presentation I made weeks ago at The University of Tennessee's Center for Children's and Young Adult Literature-about my favorite picture book titles thus far in 2010-forced me to really consider my very bestest favorites from the year, and this book is one of them. It was actually published in 2009 in Belgium as De Boomhut, but Lemniscaat, an imprint of Boyds Mills Press, published the first U.S.… Full Story »
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Indian Government angry over claims its hospitals are fuelling global superbug
The Daily Telegraph: Health: Women's &bull Aug 14, 2010
The Indian Government has reacted angrily to a study which suggested a new superbug had been brought to the UK by people returning from surgery in India. The study, published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases, warned that a gene… Full Story »
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UK doctors: New superbug gene could spread widely
Houston Chronicle: Health News &bull Aug 11, 2010
LONDON - People traveling to India for medical procedures have brought back to Britain a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, and scientists are warning this type of drug resistance could soon appear worldwide. Though already… Full Story »
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The waning promise of leptin in the obesity fight
LA Times: Health &bull Aug 7, 2010
When the so-called fat-controlling hormone leptin was first discovered, scientists predicted it would be the basis for a bonanza of new obesity-fighting drugs. That was 15 years ago. Today, scientists are still trying to develop leptin-based weight-loss therapies, but progress has been slower than anticipated. That's because leptin appears to affect several biochemical pathways in the body, and scientists still can't agree on how, precisely, the hormone works. Researchers do, however, know one thing about leptin: "It's way more complicated than… Full Story »
