Depression, drug abuse predict postpartum suicidal ideation.
WASHINGTON -- Current major depressive episode and drug abuse appear to be significant predictors of suicidal ideation in postpartum women, according to a study of 400 women with a history of neuropsychiatric illness who were followed before and after delivery. Women with a current major depressive episode...

Women Have Natural Options as New Hormone Replacement Therapy Study Reinforces Health Concerns.
Natural Supplements Are Helping Women Who Seek Safe Ways to Balance Hormones and Alleviate Chronic Menopausal Symptoms BLOOMFIELD, Conn., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As an increasing number of discerning and concerned women re-evaluate their treatment options, natural supplements have emerged as an effective choice for peri-menopausal and...

Women's Health Advocates: More Education Needed About Role of Cervical Cancer Screening and HPV Vaccines.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- As a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV) -- the virus that causes cervical cancer -- becomes more widely available, women need to understand the role of the vaccine and the need for continued screening in order to maximize cervical cancer prevention. That was...

Putting migration and ethnicity on the Women's Health Map.
HEALTH IS MORE THAN A BIOLOGICAL OR GENETIC CONSTRUCT. IT IS ALSO A REFLECTION OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS, INCLUDING THE SOCIO-CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF ONES LIFE. Income, education and marital status are known as the classic social determinants of health. But the conditions and...

Cervical cancer beliefs and Pap test screening practices among Chinese American immigrants.
Despite decades of progress in cancer prevention and early detection in the United States, cancer health disparities persist among racial and ethnic minorities. Cancer mortality rates often are higher among ethnic minorities than Caucasians. Cancer continues to be the leading cause of death for Asian American women. Asian women...

Waterfront Media to Partner With Broadway Books to Develop Comprehensive Web Site and Online Coaching Program for BIKINI BOOT CAMP, a Guide to Women's Health and Fitness.
Collaboration on May 2007 publication is part of multi-year, multiple book strategic partnership between Waterfront and Random House, Inc. NEW YORK, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterfront Media, the premier online publisher of America's self-help experts such as Arthur Agatston, M.D. and Andrew Weil, M.D., will develop a...

College women and breast cancer: knowledge, behavior, and beliefs regarding risk reduction.
ABSTRACT Background: Although breast cancer prevention should begin in youth, many young women are not aware of the modifiable lifestyle risk factors for the disease. Purpose: The purposes of this study were to examine the breast cancer-related knowledge, behaviors, and beliefs of young women; to determine whether...

Cardiac disease in pregnancy: a 4-year audit at Pretoria Academic Hospital.
Background. Pre-existing medical disease constitutes one of the five major causes of maternal death in South Africa. Increasing numbers of women with heart disease reach adulthood as a result of advances in diagnoses and treatment of heart disease in childhood. Objective. To assess the profile of cardiac...

Treating hot flashes with antidepressants--a caution about withdrawal.
Electric shocks. Brain zaps. Brain freeze. These are some of the terms people have used to describe the withdrawal symptoms from popular antidepressants, including Paxil and Effexor. While these medications can give effective relief to some psychiatric symptoms, many users have described serious withdrawal symptoms once they stop taking...

Breast cancer risk falls as serum vitamin D rises.
SAN DIEGO -- A serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level of 30 ng/mL or higher was associated with at least a 50% lower risk of breast cancer, according to the findings of a meta-analysis of three observational studies. Together, the findings lend support for annually measuring serum vitamin D...