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Study upholds breast cancer mortality for hormone replacement
In the nearly 11 years since researchers first rang alarm bells that women on hormone replacement therapy faced an increased risk of breast cancer, some have suggested that taking estrogen and progestin to treat symptoms of menopause might not be so...Tags: Trials, City of Hope, Health, Women's Health, Medical Research
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Menopause the Musical
The hilarious musical sendup that puts some noise in “the silent passage” celebrates 3,000 performances in Las Vegas on April 15. The story has four women with seemingly nothing in common meeting in a tussle over a sale-rack bra at...
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Female Lawyers for Female Cases
The law aims to protect men and women equally. Yet some types of cases nearly beg for female representation-and don't get it. That's why Karen Barth Menzies, partner at Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro & Davis, has devoted her career to taking on the...
Tags: Fosamax (drug), Trials, Osteoporosis, Litigation, Women's Health
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For the forgetful in menopause, brain works harder to keep up
Around the time of menopause, many women complain of mental slippage. But, as if to inflict some perverse trick upon them, cognitive scientists have found that they actually perform no more poorly than women who do not have such complaints. (Reassuring in...Tags: MRI (imaging), Health, Women's Health, Placebo, Medical Research
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'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' recap: To Sur, with love
Show TrackerI packed your nylons for you. Let’s just leave that alone for a second. This season, I have been complaining ceaselessly about two things: 1) Every episode of RHOBH, and I mean EVERY, has been a fabulous party, jaunt, or repast, and 2) at these... -
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Menopause the Musical
Las Vegas doesn’t always do the greatest job of rolling out the red carpet for middle-aged women. If you’ve left your hot-babe years in the rear-view mirror, you can feel invisible.
Fortunately, there is “Menopause the Musical,”...Tags: Health, Music Theater, Physical Conditions
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Breast cancer drug may slow lung cancer's march
The breast cancer drug tamoxifen may stall the progression of non-small cell lung cancer in those who take it after breast cancer treatment, a new study has found. Tamoxifen is the oldest of a wide array of medications that block the action of the...Tags: Cancer, Human Interest, Health, Women's Health, Medical Research
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A Boost for Women's Low Libido?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThanks to Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, men with erectile dysfunction can get on board the Food and Drug Administration-approved love train. But women who experience a different sexual problem -- sagging libido -- have been left at the station. That may be...Tags: Trials, Health, Sex, Heart Attack, Physical Conditions
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Drop in testosterone can affect sexual desire in men and women
A dizzying number of factors can conspire against sexual desire as midlife approaches: depression, medications, illness, career worries, financial pressures, marriage troubles, young children in the home (or an empty nest), the sense that life is half...Tags: Health, Sex, Physical Conditions, Obesity, Human Body
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Skeleton in the Closet
Young people don’t give much thought to their bones unless they’ve broken one. Yet maintaining strong bones is arguably one of the most important things men and women can do to guarantee a robust old age.
Seventy-five percent of skeletal...Tags: Pilates, Medical Research, Skin, Diseases and Illnesses, Bones and Joints
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Ladies First
Equality of the sexes in the boardroom? It’s about time. The kitchen and the classroom? Absolutely. The doctor’s office? Now there’s a novel idea....
Men and women experience health in fundamentally different ways. Did you know that a...Tags: Vaccines, Health, Chest, Physical Conditions, Heart Attack
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