Monthly Archives February 2006

Endometriosis still takes 8 years to diagnose - and treatment options remain largely ineffective

MAASTRICHT, 15 SEPTEMBER 2005
Attendees at the 9th World Congress on Endometriosis heard more about the challenge, which endometriosis presents for the millions of women worldwide, who live with this chronic disease.
The results of a global survey, completed by 7,025 women with endometriosis [1], were announced today by Lone Hummelshøj, co-founder of the Danish Endometriosis Society, [...]

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March is Endometriosis Awareness Month!

Endometriosis Awareness Week in Europe is 6 - 12 March 2006, and in the United States it is for the entire month of March. Activities have been planned in many countries to raise awareness of endometriosis in 2006.
Read more from…
Endo Center
Endometriosis.Org

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Doctors Urged to Counsel Against Delayed Childbearing

By Katrina Woznicki, MedPage Today Staff Writer
LONDON, Sept. 16 - The vast number of women who have postponed childbearing into early middle age has led to a public health threat that physicians need to address, say three prominent British obstetrician-gynecologists here.
Women who delay childbearing into their late 30s and 40s risk infertility, miscarriage, complicated pregnancies, [...]

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Dietary Calcium and Vitamin D May Help Prevent PMS

AMHERST, Mass., June 13 - High dietary intake of calcium and vitamin D-rich foods may help prevent premenstrual syndrome, a study finds.
The investigators, using food questionnaires from women in the Nurses Health Study II, found that milk, in particular, proved significantly beneficial.
Women with the highest intake of total vitamin D (median, 706 IU/d) had a [...]

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Fertility Treatments for Older Couples – Infertility increases with Age

There are several options in seeking treatment for infertility. If couples are unable to conceive after one year of trying, experts say you should consider seeking treatment. You may want to receive a thorough diagnostic evaluation to determine the best course of action. This can be done by an infertility specialist.
There are [...]

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Researchers Studying Diabetes Find a Possible Cause of Infertility

For about one in 10 couples that cannot conceive a child, their reproductive problem falls under the broad category of “idiopathic infertility,” meaning the cause remains to be determined.
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - But these idiopathic problems are gradually giving way to discovery and, in the February issue of the journal “Endocrinology”, scientists at the [...]

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Easing Endometriosis Pain

Vitamin E and C therapy might relieve pelvic pain
by Jan Eickmeier
Two months of high dose vitamin E and C therapy led to impressive reductions in endometrial pain and markers of inflammation, according to Dr. Nino Kavtaradze, an OB/GYN resident at Emory University.
The women in his study reported pelvic pain and had endometriosis or infertility. Inflammatory [...]

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