Women's Health Weekly

Environmental Toxins - Herbicide by-products delay pubertal development in female rats

Finance - ESTRASORB maker announces increased third quarter revenue

Gene Screening - Genetic testing for Huntington disease risk imposes ethical implications

Geriatrics - Postmenopausal women with mixed connective tissue disease can have osteoporosis

Gynecologic Cancers - Legislation introduced to increase early detection of gynecologic cancers

Gynecology - Multidisciplinary teams can help patients with double incontinence

Gynecology - Resection margins predict residual disease after cervical dysplasia excision

HIV/AIDS Diagnosis - Newly approved rapid HIV-1 test is really rapid

HIV/AIDS Therapy - AZT has cytotoxic effects on placenta in pregnant women

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Careful cervical monitoring needed for women failing HIV treatment

Heart Attack - Study: Diovan is also potentially a life-saving treatment after heart attack

Hematology - Factor VIII and von Willebrand factor levels show changes during pregnancy

Hypertension - Effect of breast-feeding on blood pressure may be overestimated

Hypertension - Women treated more aggressively for hypertension, yet results similar to men

Imaging - CT Laser Breast Imaging System receives approval from Health Canada

Imaging - Company obtains FDA approvable letter for mammography CAD

Immunology - Testing of Tubercin has begun

Inflammatory Diseases - Non-respiratory indications sought for PDE-4 inhibitors

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior - Women and men differ on adopting healthy behaviors

Legal Issues - Mothers not using state law to protect unwanted babies

Listeria Monocytogenes -  L. monocytogenes growth, virulence may depend on processing of lipoic acid

Liver Toxin - Some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have a higher risk for liver injury

Male Infertility - Fertility developments are demonstrating more opportunities than expected

Maternal Drug Abuse - Neonatal withdrawal syndrome is treatable, according to results of hair analysis

Neuroscience - Prenatal malnutrition influences hippocampal GABA(A) receptor mRNA levels

Neuroscience - The developmental trajectory of drug-exposed children changes with time

Obesity Therapy - Oxyntomodulin suppresses appetite and reduces food intake in humans

Obstetrics - Giving magnesium sulfate to moms before delivery may help very preterm babies

Obstetrics - Homocysteine values don't improve ultrasound detection of preeclampsia

Obstetrics - Minimal use of episiotomies and forceps deliveries would decrease lacerations

Obstetrics - Phenotypic character helps to explain risk for neural tube defect

Obstetrics - Terminology for describing amniotic infection syndrome could be more definitive

Osteoporosis - Fracture risk reduction after osteoporosis treatment outlined

Osteoporosis - Thyroid stimulating hormone is a molecular switch for skeletal remodeling

Ovarian Cancer - A phase II trial of bryostatin-I in recurrent epithelial ovarian carcinoma

Ovarian Cancer - Granulosa cell tumor of the ovary: Retrospective analysis of 45 cases

Ovarian Cancer - Reproductive factors and epithelial ovarian cancer risk by histologic type

Papillomavirus - Peak HPV seropositivity occurs after DNA positivity; duals have high cancer risk

Patents - Patent office allows additional patent claims to STR for cancer therapy

Pediatrics - Earlier methods for detecting newborn brain injury are desperately needed

Phytotherapy -  Cuscuta and Corchorus extracts delay reproductive maturity in mice

Postoperative Ileus - Enrollment completed in phase III study 308 of Entereg

Premature Birth - U.S. study initiated in pregnant women at high risk of preterm delivery

Public Health - Death rates in top three cities: Men fear the cold, women feel the heat

RSV Disease - Premature babies at increased risk of contracting RSV disease

Reproductive Medicine - Nitric oxide donors don't improve cervical ripening before induced abortion

Reproductive Medicine - The definition of success after medical abortion needs clarity

Reproductive Medicine - Tubal pregnancy is a risk after contralateral fallopian tube embryo transfer

Sexual Dysfunction - New nasal drug could rival Viagra

Tuberculosis Vaccine - Danish BCG vaccine-induced disease found in HIV-infected children

Uterine Fibroids - Mayo Clinic web site offers new health decision guide

Venous Thromboembolism - Epidemiology and management of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer

Vertebral Compression Fractures - FDA grants investigational device exemption for bone void filler clinical study

Virology - Pregnant gilts don't acquire fulminant swine hepatitis E virus infection