http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Tired? Scientists have discovered another possible benefit of a night of restful and uninterrupted sleep. According to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health fragmented or interrupted sleep could predict future placement in a nursing home or assisted living facility. The study is featured in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and outlines the association between objectively measured sleep and subsequent institutionalization among older women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-good-night-nursing-home.html Health Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:46:13 EST news261913488 One in five women with breast cancer who opt for breast conserving surgery rather than a mastectomy have a reoperation, according to a national study published in the British Medical Journal today. This information on the risk of reoperation should help women in making the decision about whether to undergo breast conserving surgery or mastectomy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-women-breast-cancer-reoperation-surgery.html Cancer Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:30:01 EST news261309000 (HealthDay) -- With enough cycles and the right egg and age of a woman, the chances of in vitro fertilization resulting in a baby approaches that of natural conception, a large new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-conditions-fertility-treatment-equal-natural.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:30:01 EST news260040365 Older women with insufficient levels of Vitamin D gained more weight than those with sufficient levels of the vitamin, according to a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health and published online in the Journal of Women's Health. The study of more than 4,600 women ages 65 and older found that over nearly five years, those with insufficient levels of Vitamin D in their blood gained about two pounds more than those with adequate levels of the vitamin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-vitamin-d-linked-weight-gain.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:00:04 EST news259848188 The 10-year anniversary of the historic Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Hormone Therapy Trial report, which radically changed the practice of women's health, will be commemorated in July 2012. In anticipation of this event, two of the world's leading experts in women's health, menopause, and hormone therapy are releasing an editorial in the journal Menopause, providing their perspective on this epic study and the lessons learned over the past 10 years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-women-health-unforgettable-decade.html Health Thu, 31 May 2012 16:00:01 EST news257690150 Women in their seventies who exercise and eat healthy amounts of fruits and vegetables have a longer life expectancy, according to research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-healthy-diet-fruits-vegetables-life.html Health Wed, 30 May 2012 11:31:33 EST news257596247 Delayed childbearing for an increasing number of women is putting them at higher risk of serious illness and complications, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-older-mums-health.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Thu, 17 May 2012 09:00:02 EST news256463451 (HealthDay) -- Women with high levels of white blood cell (WBC) DNA methylation at the ATM loci have a significantly increased risk of breast cancer, regardless of family history or menopausal status, according a study published in the May 1 issue of Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-dna-methylation-marker-breast-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 11 May 2012 15:40:01 EST news255968436 A national study suggests that a significantly greater number of highly educated women in their late 30s and 40s are deciding to have children - a dramatic turnaround from recent history. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-greater-highly-women-children-bucking.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 01 May 2012 14:23:39 EST news255100980 Sheffield researchers are investigating ways to improve the treatment and survival rate of elderly patients diagnosed with breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-bridging-gap-treatment-older-women.html Cancer Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:46:18 EST news254483172 Even though a large clinical study demonstrated that radiation has limited benefit in treating breast cancer in some older women, there was little change in the use of radiation among older women in the Medicare program, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the March Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-evidence-benefit-older-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:00:03 EST news250167131 Older women with breast cancer face a higher risk of being diagnosed with the disease at a late stage, while the risk of an advanced stage diagnosis of lung cancer decreases with age, a new study shows today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-age-affects-cancer-advanced-stage.html Cancer Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:20:01 EST news249897405 Older women whose diets include a substantial amount of trans fats are more likely than their counterparts to suffer an ischemic stroke, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-aspirin-counteract-potential-trans-fat-related.html Neuroscience Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:40:24 EST news249799215 The declining rate of smoking is unlikely to be a major contributor to the recent increases in the incidence of obesity. While quitting smoking might cause some people to gain weight, the amount gained will probably be small, reports a new study in Health Services Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-results-minimal-weight-gain.html Addiction Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:10:03 EST news248690305 Among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, increasing age was associated with a higher risk of death from breast cancer, according to a study in the February 8 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-death-breast-cancer-higher-older.html Cancer Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:29:01 EST news247854530 In a surprising finding with significant implications for older women, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and NYU School of Medicine have found that high levels of triglycerides (blood fats) are the strongest risk factor for the most common type of stroke in older women – more of a risk factor than elevated levels of total cholesterol or of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (known as "bad" cholesterol). The study appears online today in Stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-high-triglyceride-older-women.html Cardiology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:01 EST news247414171 Older women who have lost more than two inches in height face an increased risk of breaking bones and dying, according to a new study published in the January issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and funded by the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-height-loss-fractures-death-older.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:10:03 EST news245414176 More U.S. women are having twins these days. The reason? Older moms and fertility treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-women-twins-babies.html Health Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:39:03 EST news244906732 (Medical Xpress) -- Older female cancer survivors are significantly more likely to suffer from long-term cognitive impairment after diagnosis and treatment compared to their twin sibling with no history of cancer, a USC study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-results-usc-cancer-surviving-twins.html Cancer Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:40:15 EST news243589197 New research casts doubt on a popular treatment for breast cancer: A week of radiation to part of the breast instead of longer treatment to all of it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-faults-partial-breast-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:45:01 EST news242419488 Breast cancer is on the rise and 48 percent of all breast cancers occur in women older than 65, but very few of them choose to have breast reconstruction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-advanced-age-deter-women-breast.html Cancer Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:22:50 EST news242396563 The American College of Radiology today denounced new breast cancer screening guidelines by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health (CTFOPH), which recommend against annual screening of women ages 40-49 and would extend time between screens for older women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-canadian-breast-cancer-screening-guidelines.html Cancer Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:42:48 EST news241116159 Hypertension in Canada is increasing, and it is projected that more than one-quarter of Canadian adults will be diagnosed with hypertension by 2012/13, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Older women were more likely to be diagnosed with high blood pressure compared with men, and people in the Atlantic provinces had the highest rates of hypertension. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-one-quarter-canadian-adults-hypertension.html Health Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:40:24 EST news241101618 Researchers from Norway have uncovered an association between sleep problems and increased risk of fibromyalgia in women. The risk of fibromyalgia increased with severity of sleep problems, and the association was stronger among middle-aged and older women than among younger women. Results of the prospective study, based on ten years of data, appear in Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-poor-habits-linked-fibromyalgia-women.html Health Mon, 14 Nov 2011 04:13:07 EST news240466376 The survival rates for older women with breast cancer lag behind younger women diagnosed with the disease, indicating that the elder population may be missing out on improvements in treatment and detection, according to new research from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-advances-breast-cancer-dont-older.html Cancer Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:00:01 EST news239896382 This year, more than 230,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and nearly 40,000 women will not survive their battle with cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. New research from the University of Missouri shows that certain factors, including marital status, having children in the home, income level and age, affect the likelihood of depression in breast cancer survivors. Further, depressed patients are less likely to adhere to medication regimens, potentially complicating the progress of their treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-link-depression-breast-cancer-outcomes.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:21:24 EST news239473253 Forty-five per cent of Ontarians 65 years and older did not see a dentist in the last year, increasing their risk of chronic diseases and a reduced quality of life , a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital, Women's College Hospital and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences (ICES) shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ontario-seniors-dentists-regularly.html Dentistry Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:55:38 EST news238935270 Estrogen may prevent strokes in premature or early menopausal women, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Their findings challenge the conventional wisdom that estrogen is a risk factor for stroke at all ages. The study was published in the journal Menopause. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-estrogen-younger-menopausal-women.html Medical research Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:35:00 EST news237652488 Consuming dietary supplements, including multivitamins, folic acid, iron and copper, among others, appears to be associated with an increased risk of death in older women, according to a report in the October 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The article is part of the journal's Less Is More series. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-dietary-supplements-death-older-women.html Health Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:00:04 EST news237465917 The overall incidence of breast cancer is generally higher among white women than black women; however, the incidence of a second breast cancer in the opposite breast is higher among black women, according to a study presented at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Sept. 18-21, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-higher-incidence-secondary-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:14:53 EST news235660482