Women's Health Weekly

Breast Cancer - Increased physical activity reduces women's disease risk by 20%

Depression - Reproductive hormones may affect the efficacy of serotonergic antidepressants

Gynecologic Cancers - Glycoprotein overexpression a biomarker of aggressive ovarian, uterine cancers

Hormone Replacement Therapy - The hormone estrogen may protect against age-related hippocampal atrophy

Human Papillomavirus - Scientists announce vaccine hope

Menopause - Black cohosh may reduce hot flashes by targeting brain's thermostat

Neuroscience - Estrogen may actually exacerbate neural injury in older adult females

AIDS Prevention - Bacteria may show promise in AIDS fight

Adolescent Health - Eating disorder analysis should be included in assessments for mood and suicide

Adolescent Health - Girls more likely use indoor tanning facilities than boys, and more frequently

Alcohol Abuse - Drinking is riskier for women's health than men's

Alcohol Abuse - Women more likely to feel hung over than men

Anti-Infectives - Ofloxacin receives FDA approval

Anticancer Drugs - Investigative cancer treatment undergoes two phase I trials

Assisted-Reproduction Techniques - Parents say in vitro costly, but worth it

Asthma - Asthma poses serious risk in pregnancy

Bone Mineral Density - Exercise and calcium supplementation prevent bone loss in postmenopausal women

Breast Augmentation - Capsular contracture is corrected by conversion to 'dual-plane' positioning

Breast Cancer - Brain cell protein discovered in 10% of invasive tumor cells

Breast Cancer - Breast cancers in young women are biopathologicallly different from those in older women

Breast Cancer - CD44 may confer the metastatic properties of breast cancer cells

Breast Cancer - Data from Theratope vaccine trial to be presented at breast cancer symposium

Breast Cancer - Mammography re-read with work-up films improved sensitivity

Breast Cancer - Measuring fractal dimension may help discriminate malignant from benign cells

Breast Cancer - Metastasis to the breast of other cancers are rare but should be recognized

Breast Cancer - New alternatives in breast cancer treatment reported

Breast Cancer - Researchers validate self-reported screening mammography histories

Breast Cancer - The hepatocyte growth factor antagonist NK4 reduces breast malignancies

Breast Cancer - Transverse resection is a new technique of reduction mammoplasty

Breast Cancer - Weekly low-dose docetaxel maintains activity and is less myelosuppressive

Breast Cancer - Women reluctant to give up the good life to reduce disease risk

Breast Pain - Nondrug remedies can be effective

Breast Reconstruction - Study of ON-Q pain relief device begins

Breast Reconstruction - Venous outflow vessels important in microvascular breast reconstruction

Burning Mouth Syndrome - Mouth pain may be related to overall health

Cancer Detection - Company licenses colon cancer diagnostic patent rights to LabCorp and Baylor

Cancer Diagnosis - Data from phase III study of Combidex published

Candida Albicans - Level of disease activity, oral or vaginal location induce different enzymes

Cardiology - Fatty acid type dictates taurine's effects on high cholesterol levels

Cervical Cancer - Genetic alterations at chromosome 6 associated with cervical cancer progression

Cervical Cancer - Sexual life after cervical carcinoma is worse in 43% of patients

Cervical Lesions - Researchers compare cytology and colposcopy for diagnosing cervical lesions

Cesarean Section - C-section has minor risk of maternal HSV-2 brain inflammation

Chlamydia - Fc receptor mediates antibody regulation of T-cell immunity

Contraception - Scientists review possibilities for contraceptive vaccines

Cosmetic Surgery - Breast implants linked to increased suicide rate

Depression - Known risk factors don't preclude interferon use for chronic hepatitis C

Diabetes Therapy - Treatment of diabetes during pregnancy reviewed

Diagnostics -  Toxoplasma gondii ELISA can give false-positive IgM due to sphingolipids

Domestic Violence - Partner violence has roots in ethnicity, history, study finds