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Schering-Plough Corporation announced results of a recently completed study showing that non-compliance with combined hormonal contraceptives has noticeable effects on women's emotional well-being, prompted requests for physicians' advice and led to increased use of emergency contraception. Results were presented in Madrid, Spain, and were published earlier this month in Contraception.
Less than a third of the European Union's Member States have introduced fully comprehensive smokefree legislation, three years after the world's first public health treaty on tobacco control - the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) - introduced the need for protecting employees from the dangerous effects of secondhand smoke.
Sleep disruption is the most common and severe symptom reported by middle-aged women when their periods change and they start moving into the menopause,according to a study in the April issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing. Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, USA, spoke to 110 women entering the menopause - when periods can become lighter or heavier and occur at longer or shorter intervals.
Sleep disruption is the most common and severe symptom reported by middle-aged women when their periods change and they start moving into the menopause,according to a study in the April issue of the UK-based Journal of Clinical Nursing. Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Nursing, USA, spoke to 110 women entering the menopause - when periods can become lighter or heavier and occur at longer or shorter intervals.
Worldwide feminine hygiene products market is fraught with intense competition, innovation, and rising consumer health concerns. The toughest challenge encountered by manufacturers is that of keeping pace with customers' ever-changing lifestyles, attitudes, and ideas.
Today U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Herb Kohl (D-WI) held a hearing to address the impending severe shortage of health care workers who are adequately trained and prepared to care for older Americans.
Assisted Living Executive, the magazine of the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA), has released its annual list of the Largest Providers in the assisted living business.
An article published in the May 2008 issue of Epilepsia calls attention to the lack of knowledge regarding cognitive aging in chronic epilepsy patients. For persons with chronic epilepsy, little is known about the impact of aging on the course of cognitive and brain health, the prevalence of clinical disorders of aging (mild cognitive impairment, dementia), or the disease burdens and risk factors associated with abnormal cognitive and brain aging.
Study highlights: Women who began hormone therapy soon after menopause did not show reduced blood vessel function raising the question of whether the negative effects of hormone therapy in recent trials might be avoided in younger patients. Results of ongoing rigorous, randomized and controlled studies of younger menopausal women on hormone therapy are needed before considering changes to current guidelines.
Statement by Julian Lob-Levyt, GAVI Alliance Executive SecretaryThe 2008 report issued in Cape Town provides a significant assessment of the progress in maternal, newborn and child survival. I am pleased to see the report's particular focus on the pivotal role of immunisation in efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially MDG 4, which aims at reducing by two thirds the mortality rate among children under five.
Study highlights: Women who began hormone therapy soon after menopause did not show reduced blood vessel function raising the question of whether the negative effects of hormone therapy in recent trials might be avoided in younger patients. Results of ongoing rigorous, randomized and controlled studies of younger menopausal women on hormone therapy are needed before considering changes to current guidelines.
Higher blood levels of an immune system protein predict poor survival prospects for melanoma patients with advanced disease, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.Their finding that elevated levels of interleukin-12 (IL-12) are a marker of poor prognosis also points to a molecular explanation for a long-known risk factor for melanoma patients - older age.
Scientists in the US have discovered that mild cognitive impairment, as characterized by problems with memory and thinking and known to be a transition stage before dementia, appears to affect older men more than it does older women.
The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA), an organization devoted to the advancement of women in medicine and the improvement of women's health, has named Journal of Women's Health as its official journal.
As our population ages and senior citizens become a larger demographic, cancer researchers are focusing on the links between aging and cancer. Studies presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April 12 - 16, highlight the biological aspects of aging that are key to greater risk and poorer prognosis, and surgical outcomes.
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Leading global health experts, policy-makers and parliamentarians are convening in Cape Town to address the urgent need for accelerated progress to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths, if internationally-agreed targets are to be met.