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What Is Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)? What Are The Benefits And Risks Of Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Categorie : EndocrinologyHormone replacement therapy, commonly known as HRT is a treatment used to replace hormones that the body is no longer producing because of the menopause. The hormones that need replacing are estrogen and progesterone. The therapy is based on the notion that the treatment may prevent discomfort caus ...
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Sun Mar 2010
Novel Stroke Treatment Passes Safety Stage Of UCI-Led Clinical Trial
Categorie : EndocrinologyA clinical research trial of a new treatment to restore brain cells damaged by stroke has passed an important safety stage, according to the UC Irvine neurologist who led the effort. Dr. Steven C. Cramer said patients showed no ill effects after the sequential administration of growth factors encour ...
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Behavioral Problems In Childhood Double The Risk Of Chronic Widespread Pain In Adult Life
Categorie : EndocrinologyBad behaviour in childhood is associated with long-term, chronic widespread pain in adult life, according to the findings of a study following nearly 20,000 people from birth in 1958 to the present day. Chronic widespread pain is a common complaint that can have a major adverse effect on quality of ...
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Nasty Or Nice? Two-Faced Testosterone
Categorie : EndocrinologyIs aggression always the best response to a challenge? Testosterone may not necessarily cause aggression but behavior can drive testosterone secretion... ...
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Free Hormonal Contraception Halved Termination Rate
Categorie : Endocrinology3500 20- to 24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved... ...
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Chemical Tags Likely To Affect Metabolism, Cancer Development
Categorie : EndocrinologyIt is not unusual to hear people blame their metabolism after gaining a few pounds. But changes in metabolism the process that shapes how our bodies turn food into energy -- can have much more sinister effects than making it hard to fit into your favorite jeans... ...
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Anti Inflammatory Signal Protein Discovered
Categorie : EndocrinologyResearchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a protein that is crucial in mediating the anti-inflammatory actions of nuclear lipid receptors... ...
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Male Cancer Survivors' Quality Of Life Affected By Testosterone Deficiency
Categorie : EndocrinologyA new study has found that many male cancer survivors who develop testosterone deficiency after receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapy have an impaired quality of life and reduced energy levels... ...
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Progesterone For Traumatic Brain Injury Tested In Phase III Clinical Trial
Categorie : EndocrinologyResearchers at 17 medical centers across the country soon will begin using the hormone progesterone to treat patients who experience traumatic brain injury (TBI). The treatment is part of a randomized, double-blind Phase III clinical trial that will enroll approximately 1,140 people over a three- to ...
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Progesterone May Help Treat Traumatic Brain Injury Patients, Phase III Trial To Start
Categorie : EndocrinologyA randomized, double-blind Phase III clinical trial, involving approximately 1,140 patients over a three-to-six year period using the hormone progesterone to treat traumatic brain injury (TBI) will start in March 2010 at 17 medical centers across the USA. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is f ...
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Lab Research Targets 'Estrogen-Receptor Positive' Breast Cancer Cells; Identifies Key Protein
Categorie : EndocrinologyIn a laboratory study published in the journal Cancer Research, Scott & White Healthcare anatomic pathologist Arundhati Rao, M.D. is a co-investigator looking at the ways in which estrogen can interfere with how chemotherapy does its job in destroying breast cancer cells. The most common type of bre ...
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Hormone Changes During Menopause Increase Risk Of Heart Disease And Stroke
Categorie : EndocrinologyWhen women hear the word menopause, they often think about hot flashes, hormone shifts and mood swings. But what about heart disease? Studies show a woman's risk of heart disease intensifies drastically around the time of natural menopause, which for most women is around the age of 50... ...
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National Leaders In The Scientific And Medical Communities Call For Improved Accuracy In Testosterone Testing
Categorie : EndocrinologyOn February 18 and 19, The Endocrine Society, in conjunction with the CDC, brought together the nation's leading medical and scientific organizations to develop consensus recommendations for improving accuracy in testosterone assays. Testosterone assays are tests that measure testosterone levels w ...
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Effects Of Iodine Supplements On Maternal Thyroid Function Studied
Categorie : EndocrinologyIodine is an essential element for synthesising thyroid hormones. A team of researchers from the Childhood and Environment Project (INMA) has studied the consequences of pregnant women consuming it in their diet and in supplements. The results suggest the need to evaluate their iodine nutritional st ...
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Shire Provides Update On Biologics License Application (BLA) Filing For REPLAGAL(R) (agalsidase Alfa) With The U.S. Food And Drug Administration (FDA)
Categorie : EndocrinologyShire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announces it has received Fast Track designation from the FDA for REPLAGAL(R) (agalsidase alfa), its enzyme replacement therapy for Fabry disease. Shire filed a BLA for REPLAGAL in December 2009... ...
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Women's Hormone Replacement Therapy Linked To Cataracts; Smoking May Raise Uveitis Risk
Categorie : EndocrinologyIntriguing findings on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and cataract risk, and on smoking and uveitis risk are reported in this month's Ophthalmology,the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology... ...
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Effective Prostate Cancer Treatment Discovery
Categorie : EndocrinologyMonash University biomedical scientists have identified a new way to treat castrate resistant cells in prostate cancer sufferers - the most common cancer in Australian men. For more than 60 years the main way to treat men with prostate cancer has involved removing the hormones that fuel growth of th ...
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Researchers Gain Detailed Insight Into Failing Heart Cells Using New Nano Technique
Categorie : EndocrinologyResearchers have been able to see how heart failure affects the surface of an individual heart muscle cell in minute detail, using a new nanoscale scanning technique developed at Imperial College London... ...
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Ghrelin Mitigates Liver Fibrosis In Animal Models; Regulates Human Fibrosis
Categorie : EndocrinologySpanish researchers determined that rats treated with recombinant ghrelin displayed a reduction in liver fibrosis. Ghrelin, a stomach hormone, reduced the amount of fibrogenic cells by 25% in the treated rodents. Research further showed ghrelin prevented acute liver damage and reduced oxidative stre ...
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NPS Pharmaceuticals Announces Support For Rare Disease Day Observance
Categorie : EndocrinologyNPS Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for rare gastrointestinal and endocrine disorders, announced its support for the second annual U.S. Rare Disease Day observance on February 28. Rare Disease Day aims to call attention to the 7,000 rare disease ...
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