Zoledronic acid prevents bone loss in breast cancer patients undergoing endocrine therapy and improves bone mineral density after treatment, according to an Austrian study. Adjuvant endocrine therapy is widely used in patients with endocrine-responsive early breast cancer, but the treatment causes bone loss in premenopausal women.

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Having an abortion does not put women's mental health at risk, according to a new study. A comprehensive review of research, by the American Psychological Association (APA), showed no evidence that the majority of abortions cause psychiatric problems. According to previous studies, mental health issues such as depression and anxiety are more common among women who have had abortions.

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Pre-eclampsia affects one in 20 pregnancies, but experiments on mice in the US found that it could be triggered by immune molecules. This could potentially help lead to new treatments and tests for the condition, reports the journal Nature Medicine. A pre-eclampsia charity said other evidence hinted at the immune link.

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Viagra, a popular drug that turns around the sex lives of many older men, now may help women on antidepressants have better sex, U.S. media reported on Wednesday. They found women on antidepressants who took Viagra had fewer sexual side effects than those who took a placebo. Sexual dysfunction can prompt many people to stop taking drugs to treat depression.
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Infants who are predominantly breast-fed for the first six months of life are less likely to have gastrointestinal problems. But, they're more likely to be deficient in iron, and therefore at risk of anemia, according to a study that looked at 154 mothers and their babies in Guadalajara, Mexico. "We are verifying previous findings that in low-income countries.

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Exercise is good for you during any stage of life. But among pregnant women, it can offset some common problems.
Your doctor should approve of any exercise program while you're pregnant. The American Pregnancy Association offers this list of potential benefits: * It can help alleviate conditions such as poor circulation and back pain. * It can give you more energy throughout your day.

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A better way to check for breast cancer in women with breasts too dense for today's mammograms to give a clear picture. Radiologists donning special glasses is not the only potential aid. The Mayo Clinic is testing a new kind of breast camera that might challenge the images of those far pricer MRI exams now reserved for the most high- risk women,but at a fraction of the price, reports AP.

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Eating more fiber during the first trimester of pregnancy seems to reduce the risk of developing preeclampsia, a potentially fatal condition characterized by elevated blood pressure. The finding appears to be another good reason for pregnant women to maintain good fiber intake, one expert said.

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Getting too much sleep may be a more serious sign of stroke risk among older women than not getting enough sleep, according to a new study. Researchers found that postmenopausal women who slept nine or more hours per night were 70% more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than women who slept an average of seven hours a night.
An ischemic stroke is the most common type of stroke caused by a blockage in an artery supplying blood to the brain.

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Postmenopausal women whose nap time exceed nine hours may be at an increased risk of ischemic stroke, according to a new study published in Journal of the American Heart Association. But if sleeping too much is bad then so is sleeping too little, with getting less than 6 hours of sleep modestly increasing risk of stroke in postmenopausal women.

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If you've got a strong family history of food allergies or allergic asthma, you might want to think twice before munching a handful of nuts when you're pregnant. That's because recent research has found that regular consumption of nut products during pregnancy raises the odds of having a child with asthma symptoms by nearly 50 percent.

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Experts say there is no evidence that rigorous monthly "self-examination" reduces breast cancer deaths and it can lead to unnecessary biopsies. In the UK, the focus is on breast "awareness", rather than more complex and involved checks. However, Breast Cancer Breakthrough says some UK women rely on US-based websites recommending self-examination.

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Examining one's breast for symptoms of cancer may not be advisable as it has led to twice as many biopsies with negative results in women. In two large studies of 388,535 women in Russia and China, women who used self-breast exams had 3,406 biopsies, compared with 1,856 biopsies in the group that did not do the exams.
There was no significant difference in breast cancer deaths between the two groups.

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The number of melanoma cases among young women in the U.S. has risen fast, said the National Cancer Institute`s Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics as quoted by media reports Monday.
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A postmenopausal woman who uses hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may boost her risk for gallbladder disease, researchers say, although the risk appears to vary depending on how she receives the hormones. "For women who are using HRT, their risk of gallbladder disease is less if they use a patch or gel form of HRT rather than the tablet form of HRT," noted Dr. Bette Liu, a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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