http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. More restaurants are displaying calorie information on their menus than ever before. It's not a coincidence; by law, retail food establishments that are part of a chain with twenty or more locations nationwide must disclose the calorie content of each menu item. The goal is to encourage consumers to make healthier, informed food choices. The majority of studies, however, show that providing information on calorie content does not lead to fewer calories ordered or consumed. A new angle for encouraging reduced calorie intake in these establishments would be welcome by many in the nutrition field. One currently being explored is displaying on the menu the minutes of exercise–brisk walking in this case–needed to burn food calories. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-menu-amount-calories-benefits.html Health Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:29:11 EST news285953338 A study that compared the benefits and harms of the frequency of screening mammography to age, breast density and postmenopausal use of hormone therapy (HT) suggests that woman ages 50 to 74 years who undergo biennial screenings have a similar risk of advanced-stage disease and a lower cumulative risk of false-positive results than those who get mammograms annually, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-outcomes-screening-mammography-age-breast.html Cancer Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:00:02 EST news282828775 Eating three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries per week may help women reduce their risk of a heart attack by as much as one-third, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-strawberries-blueberries-heart-women.html Cardiology Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:00:08 EST news277380810 (HealthDay)—More young women are following recently revised U.S. guidelines for getting Pap tests—the standard screening for cervical cancer—but many women who have had a total hysterectomy still get the tests unnecessarily, new government studies reveal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cdc-women-unneeded-paps-post-hysterectomy.html Cancer Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:46:46 EST news276439598 Elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammatory disease, appear to be associated with increased risk of psychological distress and depression in the general population of adults in Denmark, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry, a JAMA Network publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-elevated-c-reactive-protein-psychological-distress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:00:01 EST news275576704 The birth control pill and sterilization are still the most common forms of contraception, but new federal data released Thursday show that long-acting methods are gaining ground while condom use for birth control is declining. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-contraceptive-methods-birth-patterns.html Health Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:20:02 EST news269868517 (Medical Xpress)—According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), endometriosis, a gynecological disorder in which cells from the uterus lining grow in other areas of the body, is the number one reason for a hysterectomy in women ages 18-35.  Current treatment options for endometriosis are severely limited by side effects of existing medications and surgical options have more risks.  A nationwide clinical trial is testing an investigational drug as a potential new option for patients with moderate to severe pain from this disease.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-potential-drug-pain-symptoms-endometriosis.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:30:14 EST news268993806 (Medical Xpress)—A study authored by Rebekah Hamilton, RN, PhD, associate dean of the Rush University College of Nursing, found that young women with a BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutation felt different and misunderstood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-reveals-young-women-brca-mutation.html Cancer Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:41:02 EST news267867653 (Medical Xpress)—Headache? Back pain? At the first sign of pain, you might reach for a pain-relieving medicine to sooth your bodily woes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-analgesics-linked-loss-women.html Medications Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:59:43 EST news266669949 Major depression affects as many as 16% of reproductive-aged women in the U.S. Yet pregnant women have a higher rate of undiagnosed depression than nonpregnant women, according to a study published in Journal of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-depression-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:57:12 EST news264686218 (Medical Xpress) -- For young adults today who were weaned on iPods and the Internet, the practice of "sexting," or sending sexually explicit photos or messages through phones, may be just another normal, healthy component of modern dating. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-sexting-dating-internet.html Health Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:40:01 EST news262365878 (Medical Xpress) -- The incidence of condyloma or genital warts (GW) is significantly declining in young women, according to a novel register study from Karolinska Institutet. The researchers suggest that this recent development may be explained by the introduction of the national HPV vaccine program in Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-significant-decline-genital-warts-young.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:49:57 EST news262000178 The Endocrine Society commissioned Lake Research Partners to conduct a national survey of 424 internal medicine, family practice and OB/GYN physicians about their attitudes and experiences related to treating menopausal symptoms. According to the survey, physicians say the primary barrier to women receiving hormone therapy is patients' fears about the risks and their unwillingness to discuss the option. This new survey follows a study conducted in April 2012 among 810 women ages 45 to 60 on the same topic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-survey-patient-misinformation-impede-treatment.html Other Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:41:30 EST news261139272 Preventive mammography rates in women in their 40s have dropped nearly 6 percent nationwide since the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against routine mammograms for women in this age group, a Mayo Clinic analysis shows. That represents a small but significant decrease since the controversial guidelines were released, the researchers say. Their findings are being presented at the Academy Health Annual Research Meeting, June 24-26, in Orlando, Fla. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-mammograms-decline-task.html Cancer Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:40:59 EST news259944049 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 (AP) -- The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-cdc-young-adults-sunburned.html Health Thu, 10 May 2012 12:33:17 EST news255871986 When women at high risk of breast cancer viewed a customized web-based decision guide about prevention options, they were more likely to make a choice about prevention and to feel comfortable with their choice, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-decision-uncertainty-breast-cancer.html Cancer Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:33:27 EST news253715585 A large, prospective study led by a researcher at Rush University Medical Center indicates that chronic exposure to particulate air pollution may accelerate cognitive decline in older adults. The results of the study will be published in the Feb. 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-association-air-pollution-cognitive-decline.html Health Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:08 EST news248370798 Short-term use of the antibiotic cefpodoxime for the treatment of women with uncomplicated cystitis (bladder infection) did not meet criteria for noninferiority for achieving clinical cure compared with ciprofloxacin, a drug in the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics for which there have been concerns about overuse and a resulting increase in resistance rates, according to a study in the February 8 issue of JAMA. The criteria for noninferiority was if the efficacy of cefpodoxime had been shown to be within a pre-specified margin of 10 percent of the efficacy of ciprofloxacin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-antibiotic-option-bladder-infection-women.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:41:24 EST news247855241 Pouring at least one glass of milk each day could not only boost your intake of much-needed key nutrients, but it could also positively impact your brain and mental performance, according to a recent study in the International Dairy Journal. Researchers found that adults with higher intakes of milk and milk products scored significantly higher on memory and other brain function tests than those who drank little to no milk. Milk drinkers were five times less likely to "fail" the test, compared to non milk drinkers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-glass-day-benefit-brain.html Health Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:35:25 EST news247138514 The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and other organizations have recommended that women ages 65 and older be routinely screened for osteoporosis using bone mineral density (BMD) screening. However, how often women should be screened is a topic that remains controversial and undecided, with no definitive scientific evidence to provide guidance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-older-women-t-scores-bone-mineral.html Health Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:04 EST news246106183 Women ages 65-69 who break a hip are five times more likely to die within a year than women of the same age who don't break a hip, according to a Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study funded by the National Institutes of Health and published online today in the Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-women-hip-dying-year.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:00:03 EST news236270737 The stroke rate for pregnant women and those who recently gave birth increased alarmingly over the past dozen years, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-women-pregnancy.html Health Fri, 29 Jul 2011 04:40:01 EST news231130517 A Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert is calling for all sexually active American women age 40 and older to get tested for the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis after new study evidence found that the sexually transmitted disease (STD) is more than twice as common in this age group than previously thought. Screening is especially important because in many cases there are no symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-sexually-transmitted-parasite-trichomonas-vaginalis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:32:53 EST news229678345 A test that shows how many eggs a woman has in her ovaries may help young women with breast cancer know what their reproductive function will be after chemotherapy, a new study finds. The results will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-hormone-ovarian-function-chemotherapy-breast.html Cancer Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:36:23 EST news226571771