Archive for June, 2010
Adding to a mounting body of evidence, a new study by Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, indicating the importance of moderate to vigorous exercise for controlling weight, recommends women should either jump on a bicycle or go for a brisk walk.
The study shows women gain an average of 20 pounds in 16 years (between the years of 25 and 42). However, women whom reported regularly participating in brisk walks or bicycling were much less likely to gain weight. Bicycling for just five minutes a day-helped women gain 1.5 fewer pounds over the duration of the study.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Tags: Anne Lusk, Bicycling, brisk walking, kyle mathews, little, new, Nurses Health Study, Plano Urogynecology Associates Adding, weight gain, weight loss, women
Category: News & Education 2 Comments 
In human females, menopause usually happens more or less in midlife, signaling the end of the fertile phase of a woman’s life. Menopause is perhaps most easily understood as the opposite process to menarche, the start of the monthly periods. However, menopause in women cannot satisfactorily be defined simply as the permanent “stopping of the monthly periods”, because in reality what is happening to the uterus is quite secondary to the process; it is what is happening to the ovaries that is the crucial factor
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Tags: average age of menopause, effects, hot flashes, medical, Menopause, Menopause Effect, natural, ovaries, post menopause, Treatment, woman, women
Category: Menopause, News & Education No Comments
Women who were pregnant between 1938 and 1971 were commonly given diethylstilbestrol (DES) by their doctors. DES is a synthetic estrogen. Doctors used to believe that DES helped to reduce the number of miscarriages and premature births that women were experiencing. If your mother was given DES, then you may experience some infertility problems or other health complications as a result.
Monday, June 28th, 2010 Tags: cancer, DES, doctors, estrogen, Exposure, Infertility, infertility problems, infertility treatment, pregnancy complications, premature births, synthetic estrogen, women
Category: Infertility, News & Education No Comments
Could doctors one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause? Research to be presented at a European fertility conference in Rome could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they can expect to become menopausal. Fertility specialists are particularly interested in the study.
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 Tags: AMH, biological clock, doctors, fertility, Infertility, kyle mathews, Menopause, Mullerian Hormone, ovary, Ramezani Tehrani, Rome, women
Category: Infertility, Menopause, News & Education No Comments
With PMS, or pre-menstrual syndrome, affecting almost 30% of all menstruating women, it’s no wonder that looking for a way to alleviate the symptoms is a high priority for females. Instead of having to wait for PMS to be over, women can take a more proactive approach to managing this time of the month. And for those 5 to 10% of women that also have more severe forms of PMS, any additional things they can do to help offset their signs help not only them, but everyone in their lives.
Sunday, June 27th, 2010 Tags: breast tenderness, doctors, effects, EPA, Fish, food cravings, medications, menstrual cycle, PMS, pms symptoms, pre menstrual syndrome, prevention, symptoms, water retention, women
Category: News & Education, PMS No Comments
A Recent study from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) reported in the April issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology suggest Higher vitamin D levels are linked to a lower risk for female pelvic floor disorders. Female Pelvic Floor Disorders, or Pelvic Organ Prolapse, (Dropping of the Uterus, Vaginal, Urinary Bladder and/or Rectum) affects approximately one in three women over the age of 45.
Monday, June 21st, 2010 Tags: bones, cystocele, fecal incontinence, female, Incontinence, linked, Menopause, muscle strength, Obstetrics Gynecology, pelvic floor, pelvic floor disorders, pelvic organ prolapse, Prolapse, rectocele, Vaginal, Vitamin D, women
Category: News & Education, Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery & Urogynecology No Comments
Even a moderate amount of weight loss can go a long way toward relieving symptoms of female urinary incontinence in obese women.
A 2009 study by the University of California, San Francisco showed that women who lost as little as eight percent of their body weight experienced an average 47% reduction in episodes of both stress incontinence and urge incontinence, with some seeing the number of incontinence episodes drop by an astounding 70%.
Friday, June 18th, 2010 Tags: Even, female, Improves, Incontinence, incontinence episodes, little, Loss, Moderate, pelvic floor, San Francisco, Shows, stress incontinence, Study, symptoms, urge incontinence, Urinary, Weight, weight loss, women
Category: Bladder Dysfunction, News & Education, Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery & Urogynecology No Comments
It is an accepted fact that all living beings on the earth are able to reproduce. In fact the urge and desire to reproduce and keep the line going is central to all beings. Infertility not only disturbs the lives of the couple, but also affects their near and dear ones, who love them and want to see them happy. Here we are going to discuss a few questions, frequently asked by people.
Friday, June 18th, 2010 Tags: About, ART, Asked, couple, disease, female, Frequently, Infertility, IVF, male, problem, Questions, vitro fertilization, woman, women
Category: Infertility, News & Education No Comments
The first pill designed to boost the female sex drive called Flibanserine and manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim, failed to make a significant impact on libido in two studies, federal health regulators said.
Thursday, June 17th, 2010 Tags: Boehringer Ingelheim, dysfunction, FDA, female, female sex drive, female viagra, loss of sexual desire, low female libido, medical, Menopause, sex drive, sexual, Sexual Dysfunction, women
Category: News & Education, Sexual Dysfunction No Comments
Slightly more than 4% of babies born via assisted reproductive technology, in vitro fertilization (IVF), may have major birth defects, such as heart, urinary, and genital tract malformations, according to a new study.
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 Tags: Beckwith Weidemann, birth defects, genetic diseases, heart defects, ICSI, infertility treatment, IVF, medical, new, outside, reproductive technology
Category: Infertility, News & Education No Comments
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