Posted in Breast Cancer Prevention, Cancer Prevention, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Prevention on July 30th, 2007 Comments Off
One of the more newsworthy items of late, has been the decline of breast cancer seen in 2003. The rate of breast cancer in women in the U.S. fell significantly by 6.7% in 2003, according to data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) registries. Data from 2004, showed a leveling off, with no real additional [...]
Posted in Calcium, General, Menopause, Nutrition, Prevention on April 10th, 2007 Comments Off
NAMS Board of Trustees. The role of calcium in peri-and postmenopausal women: 2006 position statement of The North American Menopause Society. Menopause: The J of The N American Menopause Society 2006;12(6): 862-877 The last evidence based consensus opinion of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) was published in 2001. An expert panel of clinicians and [...]
Posted in Birth Control, Menopause, New Products, Urinary Incontinence on February 27th, 2007 Comments Off
One of the purposes of this blog forum is to pass on information in women’s health in the form of new products in the area of women’s health. There are two products I’d like to tell you about this month. One is a newer barrier method form of birth control, called the FemCap. This replaces [...]
Posted in Botanicals, Menopause on January 1st, 2007 1,752 Comments »
Ever since the publication of the first study out of the Women’s Health Initiative in 2002 on hormone replacement therapy, women have increasingly sought herbal alternatives in search of safe and effective therapies for their menopause symptoms. In the last 25 years, black cohosh has emerged as the most studied of the herbal alternatives to [...]