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Source: Journal of Human Reproduction; BBC Health Must be the wooden shoes. Researchers from Vrije University (between Amstelveenseweg and De Boelelaan Streets in Amsterdam –Look it it up if you don’t believe me), have studied the development of eggs in over 500 Dutch women to determine why women over age 35 have twins more frequently than [...] Source: Reuters; British Journal of Gynecology, Jan. 14, 2010. Partial hysterectomies (where the cervix and lower portion of the uterus are left intact) have been on the increase since 1991. The majority of these surgeries are performed for non-cancerous conditions such as uterine fibroids whcih can cause bleeding and chronic pelvic pain. Total hysterectomy is [...] Source: BBC Health; British Journal of Psychiatry Australian researchers took time away from wrestling crocodiles and protecting babies from dingoes to study 1,241 women in the perinatal and postnatal time frame (Before and after they were pregnant). Why? to determine whether memory and concentration problems are really a cognitive defect of pregnancy. Their conclusions? Sorry, neither pregnancy [...] Source: BBC Health; Karolinska Institute (Sweeden) Admittedly it was a small, focused study of 36 newborns, 17 of whose mothers smoked during pregnancy. It is, however, alarming and instructive. Babies that had been exposed to cigarette smoke in utero (While in Mommy’s belly) demonstrated abnormal heart rates and blood pressures. But that’s not all. . .rather than [...] Source: Reuters Health; American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, December 2009 Remember that post about the safety of prescription medications for pregnant women? http://www.medicalmalpracticelawyerblogphiladelphia.com/?p=528 Well, researchers in Washington (State not the Nation’s capital) have found in a study of 3,000 women, those taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) into their 2nd and 3rd trimesters had an increased [...] Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Rates of new diagnoses and rates of death from all cancers combined declined significantly in the most recent time period for men and women overall and for most racial and ethnic populations in the United States. The drops are driven largely by declines in rates of new cases and [...] Source: US Dpt. of Health & Human Services; www.womens.health.gov; Wall Street Journal The vast majority of women who are pregnant are also taking at least one prescription drug. In our modern, hectic and stressful society, antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications are among them. But are they really safe? The answer is we really don’t exactly know…exactly. There are [...] Source: Medscape Medical News; 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Currently referred to as T-DM1, a combination of Herceptin and Maytanasine (a cancer drug which fell (Thanks, Suz!) out of favor a number of years ago due to toxicity) has been demonstrated to shrink tumors in 1/3 of women with metastatic breast cancer who were [...] Source: Medscape Medical News Researchers and soybean growers/marketers have long been touting the benefits of soy to health. The December 9 Journal of the American Medical Association (AMA) has now published the results of a large population study in China. Because let’s face it, if you want to do a large population study, China is your [...] Source: Associated Press; The Wall Street Journal It seems like just last week (okay so it was 3 weeks ago) that I was blogging on the newly announced recommendations relative to mammography. http://www.medicalmalpracticelawyerblogphiladelphia.com/?p=439 I also suggested that there were larger forces at work behind such things as US Preventative Services Task Force recommendations which surface during governmental [...] |
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