The human cost of breast cancer screening
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 18, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Peter Ubel, MD Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
Hormone Imbalances and Testing: Which Test is Right for You?
As we age, one of the first things to go is often our hormone balance. Hormones are the critical chemicals that keep our bodies in alignment, help us get enough sleep and maintain our energy levels. As we get older our hormone levels change. Throw in the stress that many of us feel from raising children, managing careers, taking care of ill or aging parents, and the result? Low energy and an overall feeling of exhaustion!
Lori Van Popering, a Certified Holistic Practitioner and Coach, has been there! She knows what it’s like to feel exhausted, foggy and just “not herself”. Her hot flashes, weight gain, di...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Source Type: blogs
5 things OB/GYNs should know about treating survivors of childhood cancer
Recent research shows improvement in long-term survival rates for childhood cancer patients, but also highlights the challenges that remain for many of the almost 400,000 survivors in the United States. Among these survivors are women facing gynecological health issues from the late effects of their treatment. What follows are several areas of concern that gynecologists and obstetricians should consider when treating women who had cancer as girls.
1. Treatment summary. An adult woman who had cancer during childhood should have a written summary of treatments she received. Certain commonly utilized treatments for childhoo...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 3, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lisa Diller, MD Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
Acupuncture bait and switch: Hot flash edition
It’s always disappointing to see a good journal fall for bad medicine, particularly when it’s in your field. For example, the Journal of Clinical Oncology (affectionately referred to by its abbreviation JCO) is the official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and probably the most read clinical journal by those involved in… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 26, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery acupuncture breast cancer electroacupuncture gabapentin hot flashes menopause placebo Source Type: blogs
Acupuncture bait and switch: Electrified hot flash edition
It’s always disappointing to see a good journal fall for bad medicine, particularly when it’s in your field. For example, the Journal of Clinical Oncology (affectionately referred to by its abbreviation JCO) is the official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and probably the most read clinical journal by those involved in… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - August 26, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery acupuncture breast cancer electroacupuncture gabapentin hot flashes menopause placebo Source Type: blogs
TBT: Blind to women’s sexual health
Today’s TBT post ran over two years ago and addressed female dysfunction. Given the FDA’s recent approval of flibanserin, a pill that aims to increase a woman’s desire for sex, we thought it would be helpful to review some of the early conversations on the issue.
A recent article published in partnership with The Investigative Fund and Newsweek questioned the existence of “female dysfunction,” as if to say, who cares about women’s sexual health? If you can’t “see” it, apparently it doesn’t exist. This is one-sided, inaccurate and disparaging of women.
Why is it that when men are impotent it ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Choice gender Women's Health Flibanserin Food and Drug Administration Sexual desire Sexual dysfunction Source Type: blogs
Uquora – Hope, Hype and Maybe a Case of Diarrhea
Before you go out and spend $25 for 10 packets of Uquora, the new after-sex UTI prevention drink that launched today, you should consider if it actually works.
What’s in Uqora?
Uqora’s main active ingredient is D-Mannose (2 gm), combined with Vitamin C (600 mg), Vitamin B6, Calcium and Magnesium. (The company website does not list amounts for the last three ingredients.) The ingredients are made into a powder that you mix with water and drink.
The manufacturer claims that Uqora will reduce the chance of getting a UTI if you drink it after having sex, after exercise or during travel, all activities linked to re...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 20, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Women's Health Post-coital Post-sex PRevention Uqora urinary tract infection UTI Source Type: blogs
Treating Menopausal Vaginal Dryness
Sex is supposed to be fun, and it’s definitely not supposed to hurt.
But one of the consequences of menopause is vaginal dryness, which for many women means painful sex.
With the loss of ovarian estrogen, vaginal walls that were once elastic, expandable, supple and sturdy can, over time, become tightened and fragile. The vaginal walls can become as thin as tissue paper, unable to withstand the manipulation that occurs with sexual activity, and can tear and even bleed with intercourse.
“Use it or lose it”
When sex becomes painful, the natural response is to begin to avoid intercourse. But without continued sexual acti...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 2, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Menopause painful sex sex hurts vaginal atrophy vaginal dryness Source Type: blogs
Poor Quality Sleep: A Silent Source of Disability in Breast Cancer
The post below ran on Huffington Post Healthy Living on May 13. It is authored by Hrayr Attarian, MD, FACCP, FAASM, Member of the Society for Women’s Health Rearch Network on Sleep and Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Research Lab for the Society for Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep.
Poor quality sleep is a major contributor to reduced quality of life and can have a negative impact on mood and energy, cognition, metabolic and immunological function, as well as lead to weight gain [3].
Sleep-related complaints are quite common in women with b...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
2015 Summer Scholars at the SENS Research Foundation
In this post you'll find pointers to the profiles of some of the SENS Research Foundation summer scholars for 2015. These talented young scientists are placed in influential labs for the summer to work on research relevant to the goal of treating aging and age-related disease. Cultivating today's young academics is the starting point for building the dedicated, enthusiastic research community of tomorrow, the people who will usher in the rejuvenation therapies of the 2030s and beyond.
At the very best possible pace of development, a pace that would require considerably more funding for the relevant research than is presen...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 26, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Why Does Human Post-Reproductive Longevity Exist?
Human life span is quite unusual in that it includes a prolonged post-reproductive period in females and the existence of menopause. This is observed in some other species in captivity, provided with the benefits of life-long veterinary care, but in the wild very few species indeed share this characteristic with us. Of these, killer whales are the nearest to us in the evolutionary tree of life. None of our closer relatives, such as other primates, experience menopause. They are in addition short-lived in comparison to our length of life. Chimpanzees and gorillas top out at 50-60 years of age in captivity, and a decade or m...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 29, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Weighing the Risks of Hormone Therapy
The post below originally ran on Huffington Post’s Healthy Living blog on February 19. To see the original post click here.
For over a decade, hormone therapy (HT) has been a hot topic in medicine. Unfortunately, women are still confused and concerned about using HT after two federally-funded studies linked HT to potentially serious health risks. Even decades after these studies, information on HT is seriously muddied, and not much is still fully known or understood about the treatment. It’s time to clear up the confusion and debunk the false reports surrounding its risks.
HT is used to primarily treat menopaus...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Hillary Clinton’s hormones have nothing to do with her qualifications
Time magazine published this article about why Hillary Clinton is the perfect age to run for president.
The author, Dr. Holland who is a psychiatrist, chose not to focus on Ms. Clinton’s vast political experience or her education but rather on Ms. Clinton’s menopausal status.
Yes, you read that right, when it comes to qualifications for president of the United States menopause trumps a Yale law degree, eight years as a senator from New York, and four years as Secretary of State.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 27, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jennifer Gunter, MD Tags: Physician OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Ask D'Mine: Pumping Up Menopause
There are plenty of factors affecting the "diabetes rollercoaster" -- and hormones are certainly not the least thereof. Today at our diabetes advice column Ask D'Mine, veteran type 1, diabetes author and community educator Wil Dubois is taking ... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - April 11, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Wil Dubois Source Type: blogs
