Women's Health Weekly articles from January 2001

Women's Health Weekly archives from January 2001

Less Heart Disease, More Stroke Risk: What's a Girl to Do?
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- by Maryclaire Lindgren, staff medical writer -- Postmenopausal hormone therapy decreases the risk of coronary events in women, even at the lower 0.3 mg dose of oral conjugated estrogen, however, estrogen doses at...

Disabled Elderly Women Receive Less Home Care than Men.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Disabled elderly women living in the community receive about one-third fewer hours of informal home care than their male counterparts, and many disabled, elderly, married women serve as caregivers to their spouses,...

Some Postmenopausal Women May Not Need Annual Pap Smear.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 -- (NewsRx.com) -- Some postmenopausal women may not need to have Pap smears within two years of a normal test result, a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), study has found. This is because it is unlikely these women...

Cervical Carcinogenesis Curbed by HPV Oncogene Repression.(human papillomavirus )
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 -- (NewsRx.com) -- Repression of human papillomavirus (HPV) E6 and E7 proteins can reverse cervical carcinogenesis. How? These proteins neutralize cells' natural tumor suppressor function, report researchers from Yale...

High Rates of C-Section in Chile Do Not Reflect Patient Choice.(cesarean )
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- In Chile, the rate of cesarean sections in women with private health insurance is double that of those in the public sector, yet this does not reflect patients' choice, according to a study in the December 14,...

Marital Stress Associated with Cardiac Events in Women.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Among women with coronary heart disease, the risk of having a recurrent coronary event is increased for those who experience severe stress in their marriages or live-in relationships, according to an article in the...

Women Hospitalized for Heart Disease May Be Primed to Quit Smoking.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Smoking cessation programs for hospitalized women with heart disease may have lasting effects, according to a University of California, San Francisco, researcher. Not only is the medical event a stimulus to...

Certain Drug Therapies Effective in Prolonging Pregnancies.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 -- (NewsRx.com) -- An evidence report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) says that certain drug therapies and diagnostic tools can have a positive outcome on the treatment of preterm labor. The Research...

Women's Sexual Dysfunction Programs Expanded.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CLGY), San Francisco, California, announced that it has initiated an expanded Phase I/II clinical trial of Tostrelle, its transdermal testosterone gel product for female sexual...

Clinical Trial Investigates Microsphere Treatment.(for uterine fibroids)
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- BioSphere Medical, Inc., a medical device company pursuing the use of bioengineered microspheres to treat hypervascularized tumors and vascular malformations by occluding their blood supply, announced December 14,...

Compounds Exhibit Synergistic Activity with Herceptin and Taxotere.(breast cancer )
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- New research reported December 8, 2000, at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer meeting showed that exisulind (Aptosyn[TM]) and CP461 inhibit cell growth and trigger apoptosis in human breast cancer cell lines,...

Data Show Older Lymphoma and Breast Cancer Patients are Under-Treated.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- According to data presented at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium held in December 2000, elderly cancer patients may be up to two times as likely as younger...

Growth Factor Could Predict Disease Course.(vascular endothelial growth factor, cervical cancer)
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- by Sonia Bell-Nichols, staff medical writer -- Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been proposed as a marker for a variety of types of cancers. New research indicates that VEGF could some day be used to...

Fetal Cells in Liver after Pregnancy May be Cause of Cholestatic Liver Disease.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists report in the Journal of Hepatology that a serious liver ailment known to predominantly affect middle-aged women may be caused by fetal cells in the women's livers that remain after pregnancy. ...

Combination with Obesity Increases Risk of Birth Defects.(diabetes )
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Women who are both obese and diabetic have a much greater risk than other women of giving birth to children with congenital birth defects, according to researchers in the United States. L.L. Moore and...

Some Drugs Taken During Pregnancy May Impair Brain Development.(epilepsy drugs )
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Certain epilepsy drugs taken during pregnancy may impair children's normal brain development, suggests research in the December 2000 issue of Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. Around one in...

Endothelin-1 and Endothelin-A Receptor: Targets for Cancer Therapy?
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Endothelin-1 (ET-1) induces the growth of human papillomavirus (HPV) cells, which express endothelin-A receptors (ETAR). Thus, these receptors may be appropriate targets for anticancer therapy, researchers suggest....

Genetics Play Role in Development of Cervical Cancer.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Women infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) who develop cervical cancer may be genetically predisposed to its development. Certain strains of HPV are known to be associated with cervical cancer, but not all...

Single Protein Defect May Cause Autoimmune Disease.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists have discovered that a single defect in a common protein causes a severe autoimmune disease resembling lupus - the debilitating, poorly understood malady that affects 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly...

Objective Measures Fail to Predict Chronic Illness.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Being female and, surprisingly, having good family support seem to predict recovery failure in acute infectious mononucleosis patients, while more scientific measures do not. D.S. Buchwald, of the University...

Information Key Ingredient for Healthy World; NewsRx.net Offers eHealth Revenue Sharing Booster Shot.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Health information from the Internet is the key ingredient for advancing world health, according to health publishing executive, C.W. Henderson, CEO of NewsRx. Henderson said that delivering the correct...

Model Suggests Treatment During Antepartum Stage of Pregnancy is Best Strategy.(tuberculosis )
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) --- by Sonia Bell-Nichols, staff medical writer -- The best strategy for protecting women with latent tuberculosis infections during pregnancy is to treat them during the antepartum period, according to research...

Three Genetic Steps Convert Normal Cells into Cancer Cells.
January 11, 2001... 2001 JAN 11 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cells originating from normal human breast tissue have been converted into breast cancer cells by a defined protocol of genetic changes. In the January 1, 2001, issue of Genes & Development, Dr. Robert...

Veggies: They're Good Right Down to the Bone.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Eat around your plate for good bone health because researchers say that eating too much animal protein compared to vegetable protein can cause more rapid bone loss and fracture in postmenopausal women. ...

Money Chief Reason for Racial Differences in Mammography.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- In 1997, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found that black women in eastern North Carolina were only about half as likely as white women to have undergone mammography. Also, doctors there...

Scientists Associate Cancer with Growth Factor in Serum of Pre-Menopausal Women.(insulin-like growth factor )
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- New research indicates that a hormone called insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I is observed more often in pre-menopausal women with breast cancer than in same-aged women without breast cancer. The new research...

Serotype G Chiamydia Strain Strongly Associated with Disease Development.(cervical squamous cell carcinoma )
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Women with the sexually transmitted infection Chlamydia trachomatis are at increased risk of developing cervical squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), and the risk is highest when the infection is serotype G, according to...

Research Explores Recurrent Miscarriages, Hoping to Help Transplant and Cancer Patients.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 -- (NewsRx.com) -- A mother's immune system may attack a fetus from multiple fronts, by sending in killer T cells, by producing antibodies that target fetal cells, or by coating cells with a destructive, soluble blood factor called...

High Animal Protein Intake May Increase Risk of Bone Loss.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- A University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) study finds elderly women who get a much higher intake of their dietary protein from animal products rather than vegetables have an increased risk of bone loss and...

Combination of Drugs Deadly for HIV+ Pregnant Women.(ddI and d4T)
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Three pregnant women infected with HIV recently died from a severe side effect caused by taking two AIDS drugs together, the U.S. government said on January 5, 2001, in a warning to pregnant women to try to avoid a...

MIT Radar Technology Enters Phase II Trials.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thermotherapy for breast cancer)
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- An Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher's work on radar technology to detect missiles will be applied in U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Phase II clinical trials for the treatment...

New Jersey Women Wait Weeks for Mammograms.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- New Jersey women often have to wait several weeks to get mammograms because the centers that perform the tests for breast cancer can't afford to perform them, said New Jersey state radiologists. Doctors blame...

FDA Approval Sought for Transdermal System.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 (NewsRx.com) -- The R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute (PRI), Raritan, New Jersey, submitted its New Drug Application (NDA). for the Ortho Evra (norelgestromin/ethinyl estradiol) transdermal system to the U.S. Food and...

Medical School to Test New IUD Contraceptive.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) scientists are studying a new contraceptive that combines an intrauterine devices (RID) with one of the chemicals found in birth control pills. Researchers don't expect...

Too Many Women Take Fertility Drugs Without Doctor's OK.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Doctors along the Mexican border say they are concerned about the availability of fertility drugs in Mexico and warned that women subject themselves to risk of serious side effects when taking these drugs without a...

Once-Daily Tablets Approved to Treat Overactive Bladder.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pharmacia Corp., Peapack, New Jersey, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Detrol LA (tolterodine tartrate extended release capsules). Detrol LA is a once-daily therapy for...

Certain Drug Therapies Effectively Prolong Pregnancies.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 -- (NewsRx.com) -- A new report from the Research Triangle Institute/University of North Carolina (RTL/UNC) Evidence-Based Practice Center revealed that certain drug therapies and diagnostic tools can have a positive outcome on the...

Clinical Data Submitted Seeking Expanded Claims for Diagnostic Systems.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- TriPath Imaging, Inc. (TPTH) (TriPath), Burlington, North Carolina, announced that the company has submitted new clinical data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support applications to expand the...

Researcher to Study Use of Diaphragm for STD Prevention.(sexually transmitted diseases)
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- A University of Oregon researcher plans to study whether women are willing to use a diaphragm not just to prevent pregnancy but also to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases. The U.S. National...

Patient Age Joins Tumor Size and Angiogenesis in Predicting Metastasis.(breast cancer )
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study comparing breast cancer patients of different ages has shown that age, in addition to tumor size, angiogenesis, and other tumor-related factors, is an independent variable for the risk of metastasis in...

Cell Membrane Phospholipids Can Affect Chances of Insulin Dysfunction in Obese Patients.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Elevated levels of a number of different cell membrane components can put both diabetic and otherwise healthy obese women at a higher risk for hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, researchers in France report....

Study Finds Angiogenesis Not a Predictor of Disease.(endometrial carcinoma)
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 -- (NewsRx.com) -- Angiogenesis does not play a prominent role in endometrial carcinomas, researchers in Turkey reported at the VII Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, held in Buenos Aires. Using...

Age at Pregnancy, Menarche Most Important Predictive Factors of Weight Gain.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Women who experience their first pregnancy or their first menstruation at a young age have an increased risk of post-pregnancy obesity, researchers say. E.P. Gunderson and colleagues working under the aegis of...

Intrathecal Alfentanil Effective Without Bupivacaine for Labor Pain.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Alfentanil alone appears to be sufficient for initiating combined spinal-epidural analgesia for labor pain, researchers suggest. They say supplementation with bupivacaine is unnecessary and possibly...

Avoiding High-Fat Foods May Help Protect Bones.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Everyone knows that eating fatty foods may cause high cholesterol and heart disease, but University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have now learned that unhealthy eating and high cholesterol may...

Fibroblast Growth Factor and Its Receptors Common to Ovarian Tumors.
January 18, 2001... 2001 JAN 18 - (NewsRx.com) -- Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-8, a growth factor known for its mitogenic properties, could be a marker for ovarian cancer due to its relatively common expression on ovarian cancer cells, according to a new study....

Favorable OvaRex Phase II Trial Results Reported.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- AltaRex Corp. (AXO, ALRXF), Waltham, Massachusetts, reported the final results of one of its OvaRex Phase II trials conducted by Thomas Ehlen, MD, FRCSC, at the Vancouver Cancer Center in British Columbia, Canada....

Social Support Key to Encouraging College Students to Exercise.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- College students are more likely to exercise if they have social support for being active, but the best kind of social support differs between men and women. A new study of 937 randomly selected students at...

FDA Cautions Pregnant Women to Limit Consumption of Certain Types of Fish.(to help avoid mercury toxins that would cause damage to the brains of unborn babies)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pregnant women and those who might become pregnant should not eat four types of fish - shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish - because they could contain enough mercury to hurt an unborn baby's developing...

Estrogen-Receptor-Positive Cancers Associated with LAR Phosphatase.(protein tyrosine phosphatase)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine shows estrogen-receptor-positive tumors associate with the protein tyrosine phosphatase LAR. Several signal transduction...

Vicious Cycle Drives Calcium and Peptide to Stimulate Metastatic Bone Cancers.(PTh-related peptide)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- by Sonia Bell-Nichols, staff medical writer -- New research supports the theory that breast cancer cells secrete a peptide that encourages metastatic bone tissues to express substances that induce the secretion of...

Genitoscopy Recommended for Detecting Intraepithelial Neoplasias in HIV+ Women.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Intraepithelial neoplasias resulting from human papillomavirus infection occur commonly in women also infected with HIV. Researchers in Brazil suggest that since genital inferior tract neoplasias have a high...

Fentanyl More Cost-Effective than Remifentanil for Gynecologic Surgery.(anesthetic comparison)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Fentanyl is a substantially more cost-effective anesthetic for gynecologic surgery than its cousin remifentanil, despite remifentanil's attractive pharmacology, according to researchers writing in the journal...

Therapeutic Target Discovered for Breast and Ovarian Cancer.(ID4)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 -- (NewsRx.com) -- Immusol, Inc, San Diego, California, announced that the company's proprietary Inverse Genomics technology led to the discovery of a potential drug target gene for breast and ovarian cancer. Immusol's work is...

High Growth Factor Levels Identified in Patients with Thyroid Diseases.(vascular endothelial growth factor; fibroblast growth factor)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 -- (NewsRx.com) -- People who suffer from disorders associated with a dysfunctional thyroid often have elevated levels of angiogenesis-related growth factors in their blood, researchers in Poland report. Vascular endothelial...

Research in Germany Sees Vertical Transmission of Bloodborne Virus to Infants.(TT virus)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists know that TT virus, a pathogen identified a few years ago, is transmitted via blood and procedures associated with blood such as hemodialysis. Researchers in Germany have now identified e vertical...

FDA Approves Remicade with Methotrexate as First Drug to Inhibit Progression of Joint Damage.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a drug to inhibit the progression of joint damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, which affects 2.1 million Americans, mostly women. The FDA...

Study Finds Prenatal Units are Generally Unaware of Guidelines.(for prenatal genetic screening)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Antenatal units are generally unaware of screening guidelines for women at increased risk of having a baby with genetic defects including Down's syndrome and cystic fibrosis, found research published in the January...

Breast Density Changes as HRT Starts and Stops.(hormone replacement therapy)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Changes in breast density associated with hormone replacement therapy are dynamic, increasing with initiation, and decreasing when therapy is discontinued, according to an article in the January 10, 2001, issue of...

Women Rarely Mention Family History to their Doctors.(breast cancer)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Women infrequently raise the issue of a family history of breast cancer when consulting their doctor or nurse-practitioner, reported the Women's Concerns Study Group in the January 5, 2001, issue of the British...

Placenta Previa More Common with Birth of Male Babies.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The findings of a study by researchers in Canada suggest risk of placenta previa is higher in women who are pregnant with male babies. S.W. Wen and colleagues with Health Canada investigatd the relationship...

Minnesota Health Officials Look at Warnings Regarding Mercury-Contaminated Fish.(found in Minnesota lakes)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Minnesota state health officials are evaluating how best to inform people about the dangers of mercury found in fish caught from contaminated lakes in Minnesota. Many Minnesota lakes are contaminated as a...

Patient Enrollment Goal Met for Tubal Occlusion Trial.(Conceptus Inc. tests Selective Tubal Occlusion Procedure)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Conceptus, Inc., announced that bilateral placement has been achieved in more than 400 patients in the pivotal clinical study of the STOP [TM] (Selective Tubal Occlusion Procedure) non-surgical permanent...

Clinical Guidelines Updated to Options for Metastatic Disease.(lymphatic metastasis in breast cancer)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The December 30, 2000, issue of Oncology highlights the updated National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) breast cancer treatment guidelines featuring a recently approved treatment option for patients with early...

Resistance Training Key to Prevention in Older Women.(osteoporosis prevention)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- While walking, running, or aerobics strengthen hips, the most frequent site of bone thinning and serious fractures, a noted osteoporosis researcher urged paying more attention to upper body osteoporosis problems...

Cancer Screening System Clinical Trial in China Commenced.(InPath System used in cervical cancer screening)
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- Ampersand Medical Corp. (AMPM), Chicago, Illinois, announced the commencement of a clinical trial in China using the InPath System, a screening system for cervical cancer. The trial is the first step in a...

Women in Bangladesh at Increasing Risk for HIV Infection.
January 25, 2001... Bangladesh has a low prevalence of HIV/AIDS, though the country is seeing signs of the epidemic. At the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, held in Houston, Texas, the issue of AIDS awareness was...

Tamoxifen Analogue Toremifene Not as Toxic to Liver.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The new drug toremifene, a drug with anti-estrogen activity similar to tamoxifen, does not cause as many liver-related disorders in breast cancer patients, according to new research. Fatty liver was observed...

Tamoxifen Has No Heart-Related Effects.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The breast cancer prevention drug, tamoxifen, does not influence cardiovascular risk in healthy women or in women with coronary heart disease, according to a study published in the January 3, 2001, issue of the...

Value of Genetic Advice by Primary Physicians Questioned.
January 25, 2001... 2001 JAN 25 - (NewsRx.com) -- The value of giving genetic advice on breast cancer in primary care situations is questionable, according to a study in the January 5, 2001, issue of the British Medical Journal. Researchers in The Netherlands...