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
You might be missing a PCOS diagnosis. Here are 10 reasons why.
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is becoming a significant problem in women’s health. Between 1 in 10 to 20 women have the condition, although more than 50 percent remain undiagnosed. PCOS is the leading cause of female infertility and women who do become pregnant have higher rates of miscarriage, preterm birth, and gestational diabetes.
Women with PCOS have a greater likelihood of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and endometrial cancer than women without the condition. Glucose intolerance is caused by associated insulin resistance that frequently, but not always, causes weight gain. Although there are diag...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 31, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Poppy Daniels, MD Tags: Conditions OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Treating Cancer as Though It Were an Infectious Disease
Here researchers propose an interesting approach to destroying cancer stem cells via targeted antibiotics. Cancer stem cells have been shown to be the driving force behind many types of cancer: without their presence, tumors would halt their growth or wither. At this point cancer research as a whole is far too slow and expensive. Faster progress towards meaningful treatments will arise from identifying and focusing on common points of attack that are essentially the same in many different types of cancer. However all too many of today's expensive and time-consuming research programs are entirely specific to the genetics an...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 23, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News 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
Wheat, Graham crackers, and lust
Wheat and grains, having been incorporated into the human dietary menu 10,000 years ago, is the subject of many trials, tribulations, and misadventures along the course of human life. Looking back with our enlightened view of diet, recognizing the enormous blunder we made as humans by incorporating such grasses as food, or at least the compromises we struck in order to fend off starvation, make for some entertaining stories.
Here is an interesting piece of wheat history from the 19th century, a perfect example of the mix of truth and fiction that characterizes thinking about grains that continues even today. Mr. Sylvester ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 7, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle flour gluten graham grains 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
I Remember Rachel for Her Ferocity for Life, Not Cancer
I first wrote about my amazing friend Rachel "Lings" Yingling three years ago, and today likely won't be the last time. She was among the best and my favorite people I have met. Besides her inexplicably odd-shaped feet which she didn't mind showing off, we could all benefit from acquiring her characteristics: passionate, positive, resilient, adventurous, alive. Fiercely alive.This is for Rachel.As published on The Huffington PostThe skeet whooshed towards the heavens. My right eye stared ahead with the barrel flush. I had developed a rhythm with the saucer: After it launched I waited until it reached a preci...
Source: cancerslayerblog - June 23, 2015 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: life lessons Source Type: blogs
The fascinating journey of new immunotherapy drugs to treat cancer
Question: What do all these cancers have in common: melanoma, lung, kidney, bladder, ovarian, head and neck, Hodgkin lymphoma, stomach, breast (and others)?
Answer: They have all shown evidence of meaningful, durable responses when treated with one or more of the new immunotherapy drugs. And that is truly amazing, not to mention very unexpected, even by the experts who know this stuff.
That’s the message that is coming out of the 2015 annual scientific meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where thousands of doctors, researchers and others from around the world make the annual trek to Chicago to shar...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 16, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
Sidney Wolfe writes in the BMJ - AllTrials - Selective clinical trial
reporting: betraying trial participants, harming patients
Reporting biases found in trials of cardiovascular devicesReporting biases in published trials were first identified in 1986.1 Published randomized studies of combination chemotherapy compared with treatment with an alkylating agent as first line treatment for ovarian cancer showed a significant survival advantage for combination chemotherapy. Unpublished cancer trial registry data from the same studies, however, showed no such advantage.2 Similarly, in the treatment of multiple myeloma, registry data suggested a smaller survival advantage for combination chemotherapy (over prednisone and an alkylating agent) tha...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 11, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Sidney Wolfe writes in the BMJ - AllTrials - Selective clinical trial reporting: betraying trial participants, harming patients
Reporting biases found in trials of cardiovascular devicesReporting biases in published trials were first identified in 1986.1 Published randomized studies of combination chemotherapy compared with treatment with an alkylating agent as first line treatment for ovarian cancer showed a significant survival advantage for combination chemotherapy. Unpublished cancer trial registry data from the same studies, however, showed no such advantage.2 Similarly, in the treatment of multiple myeloma, registry data suggested a smaller survival advantage for combination chemotherapy (over prednisone and an alkylating agent) tha...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 11, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Sidney Wolfe writes in the BMJ - AllTrials - Selective clinical trial
reporting: betraying trial participants, harming patients
Reporting biases found in trials of cardiovascular devicesReporting biases in published trials were first identified in 1986.1 Published randomized studies of combination chemotherapy compared with treatment with an alkylating agent as first line treatment for ovarian cancer showed a significant survival advantage for combination chemotherapy. Unpublished cancer trial registry data from the same studies, however, showed no such advantage.2 Similarly, in the treatment of multiple myeloma, registry data suggested a smaller survival advantage for combination chemotherapy (over prednisone and an alkylating agent) tha...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 10, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Sidney Wolfe writes in the BMJ - AllTrials - Selective clinical trial
reporting: betraying trial participants, harming patients
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Source: PharmaGossip - June 10, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Muffin tops, man boobs, and bagel bumps
: These are among the varied and perverse ways that the hormonal distortions inflicted on unwitting humans who consume the seeds of grasses, i.e., grains, show themselves.
In our modern world filled with thousands of processed foods, there are plenty of landmines for health. Gummy bears and gumdrops will rot teeth, for instance. Indulge in a handful of dried prunes and you’ll have to schedule a substantial portion of your day on the toilet due to bowel irritants.
But only wheat and grains are associated with a wide swath of health problems that range from autoimmune disease to mental illness. Among the most strikin...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 9, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains hormones man breasts muffin top testosterone Source Type: blogs
A Truthful Vaccine Consent Form – That No Mom Could Ever Sign
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.(1)
Those are the closing words of the first tenet of the Nuremberg Code - informed consent – and make no mistake about it - from the most personal of parental perspectives, vaccination’s a macabre experiment, every time: no parent can be certain that a vaccine won’t permanently disable her child.(2) Egregiously, the administering doctor or nurse - or CVS pharmacist - in no wa...
Source: vactruth.com - May 25, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Shawn Siegel Tags: Logical Shawn Siegel Top Stories informed consent Nuremberg Code Ronne study Vaccine Consent Form Source Type: blogs
