Women's Health Topics
Medical Articles
Menstrual Clots: What Do They Mean? by Dr. Albee
Women's Biological Clock Revealed: Hormone May Predict Age A Menopause
- 4/27/08 "Age at menopause may now be
predicted more realistically according to a new study accepted for
publication in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
The study revealed that anti Mullerian hormone (AMH) levels are related to
the onset of menopause and are able to specify a woman's reproductive age
more accurately than chronological age alone."
Ovary removal may raise Parkinson's risk
- 1/23/08
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who undergo removal of one or both
ovaries prior to menopause appear to be at increased risk of developing
Parkinson's disease or similar conditions, investigators report.
Did you know? For those patients having a
hysterectomy and leaving the ovaries, there is roughly a 10% chance of
having another operation at some point (for any reason) specifically
because the ovaries were left. Removing your ovaries does NOT eliminate your risk of
ovarian cancer. There is a form of ovarian cancer called
"primary
peritoneal carcinoma" that can still affect you even if your ovaries
are removed.
Did you know? Hysterectomy
Induced Menopause - Overweight women can make a mild form of
estrogen in their fatty tissues and can live off this estrogen for a while,
and thus not be symptomatic even though the woman was not taking any
additional estrogen. Now, if the woman has lost some weight or altered her
metabolism via exercise or medications, she can then have "less endogenous
estrogen production", and her system will now become somewhat more
symptomatic.
FDA Orders Pharmacies To Stop Making False Claims About Custom-Made
Hormones To Treat Menopause - 1/11/2008
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FDA on Wednesday sent letters to
seven pharmacies that sell custom-made "compounded bioidentical" hormone products over
the Internet to menopausal women and ordered the companies to stop making
false and misleading claims about the compounds' benefits.
CDC Urge Women To Take Folic Acid -1/11/2008
- Folic Acid is a B vitamin that helps to prevent
birth defects. Women who have enough folic acid in their bodies before
they get pregnant, and get enough while they are carrying the baby,
minimize the risk that their child will have a birth defect of the brain
or spine.
Web Sites
Pregnancy and Birth - MidWife
Hypnosis for Healing and HypnoFertility Therapy
http://home.comcast.net/~prebirthhealth/hypnosisforhealing.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~prebirthhealth/birthcounseling.htm
Common Uterine Positions: Non-Pregnant Uterus
http://home.comcast.net/~webmidwife1/uterinepos.htm
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