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Source: BBC Health; Journal Cancer Research Tamoxifen (an estrogen blocker) is currently the most prescribed drug to fight breast cancer recurrence. However up to 1/3 of women do not respond to Tamoxifen. The reasons for this are not completely known as of this post but are believed to lie in a gene -FGFR1. Researchers are now working [...] 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: U.S. National Institutes of Health; Journal of the American Medical Association, February 3, 2010 I know, I know…Let them sleep on their backs…No wait, only on their stomachs…No wait, on their backs but no pillows…or blankets…No smoking…No pets…Never in bed with you… Perhaps it’s no wonder why the Amercian Academy of Pediatrics is constantly revising guidelines [...] 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 According to the CDC, some 3,000 pregnancies a year are ffected by spina bifida or anencephaly (, neural tube defects caused by the incomplete development of the brain and spinal cord). Studies have shown that women taking 400 mcg of folic acid daily both before and during pregnancy [...] 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: US Department of Health and Human Services November 2009 Release The US Preventative Services Task Force has released the latest (11/2009) recommendations for Breast Cancer Screening. Were I a woman or performing breast self-examination (BSE) on, well myself, I’d be confused. The Task Force has un-recommended (hey if “un-friend” is now a word, this can’t be [...] |
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