Scientists Say Fluctuating Levels of Female Hormones After Menopause Can Cause Temporary Memory Loss

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2256675/Does-menopause-really-make-forgetful-Yes-long-say-scientists.html The menopause ‘can cause memory loss’: Scientists say fluctuating levels of female hormones are behind the problem Memory loss worse in year after the last period due to fluctuating hormones But is likely to only be temporary and not linked to depression Symptoms are common for women in their late 40s and early 50s […]

Scientists Believe High Levels of Molecule ‘IL-33′ Is A Potential Cause Of Repeated Miscarriages

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2257086/Scientists-discover-women-suffer-repeated-miscarriages.html Scientists discover why some women suffer repeated miscarriages Tests showed women who had successive miscarriages had high levels of a molecule known as IL-33 Medications that target the protein could be given to pregnant women who are particularly vulnerable By Emily Payne PUBLISHED: 07:47 EST, 4 January 2013 | UPDATED: 09:14 EST, 4 January […]

More than 1 million women given unnecessary and invasive treatment for breast cancer, study finds

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237864/More-1-million-women-given-unnecessary-invasive-treatment-breast-cancer-study-finds.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 13:00 EST, 24 November 2012 | UPDATED: 13:12 EST, 24 November 2012 Since mammograms became standard, millions of American women have been subjected to unnecessary and invasive medical treatments for harmless tumors, a new study finds. The results could further add doubt to what’s already a controversial screening tool […]

Women who work in bars, factories and casinos face higher risk of cancer due to exposure to ‘toxic soup’ of chemicals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2235247/Women-work-bars-factories-casinos-face-higher-risk-cancer.html The employment history of 1,000 women with breast cancer was compared with another 1,147 women who did not have the disease Link is blamed on second hand smoke and night work, which has previously been linked to hormonal disruption By Jenny Hope PUBLISHED: 10:37 EST, 19 November 2012 | UPDATED: 02:54 EST, 20 November […]

Weight loss does not improve women’s fertility – but it does boost their libido

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2220181/Weight-loss-does-improve-womens-fertility–does-boost-libido.html Women who underwent weight-loss surgery reported a boost to their levels of sexual arousal However, ovulation rates remained the same By Claire Bates PUBLISHED: 10:41 EST, 19 October 2012 | UPDATED: 10:41 EST, 19 October 2012 Obese women who want to become mothers are told to lose weight to increase their chances of having […]

Superbugs found in chicken causing antibiotic-resistant bladder infections linked to EIGHT MILLION women

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2172372/Superbugs-chicken-causing-antibiotic-resistant-bladder-infections-linked-million-women-researchers-say.html By Christine Show PUBLISHED: 00:56 EST, 12 July 2012 | UPDATED: 01:11 EST, 12 July 2012 The roughly eight million women developing bladder infections in the United States every year may be getting a form of the illness resistant to antibiotics from the chicken they buy at the grocery store. A strain of E.coli […]

Breast cancer ‘returns in one in five women’ as experts reveal odds of relapse for the first time

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2157923/Breast-cancer-returns-women-experts-reveal-odds-relapse-time.html Research showed 95 per cent of the women whose cancer returned were not alive ten years later By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED: 18:50 EST, 11 June 2012 | UPDATED: 18:51 EST, 11 June 2012 One in five women with breast cancer will have their illness return following treatment, according to experts. It is the first […]

Why grandmothers need to eat their greens too: Elderly women who have healthy diets and are physically active live longer

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2153196/Why-grandmothers-need-eat-greens-Elderly-women-healthy-diets-physically-active-live-longer.html Women in their seventies with a healthy diet and who take regular exercise are eight times more likely to live a further five years than their more idle counterparts By Jenny Hope PUBLISHED: 06:41 EST, 1 June 2012 | UPDATED: 19:01 EST, 1 June 2012 The young are forever being told to eat their […]

Calcium pills taken by hundreds of thousands of women ‘double risk of heart attack and could do more harm than good’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149031/Calcium-booster-pills-raise-risk-heart-attack-harm-good.html By Jenny Hope PUBLISHED: 18:02 EST, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 01:15 EST, 24 May 2012 The study looked at diet records of 24,000 people in Germany aged 35 to 64 and claim the safety of calcium tablets is ‘coming under increasing scrutiny’ Taking calcium supplements can push up the risk of a heart […]

Losing half a stone could halve a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer, researchers claim

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2147855/Losing-half-stone-halve-womans-risk-getting-breast-cancer-researchers-claim.html By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED: 18:01 EST, 21 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:02 EST, 21 May 2012 Losing just over half a stone could dramatically lower the chance of developing breast cancer. Research shows that overweight women who shed 5 per cent of their body weight are up to 50 per cent less likely to […]