HPV Vaccine Not Responsible For Sexual Promiscuity Posted by Staff (10/15/2012 @ 9:55 pm)  Free Image Courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net
The journal of Pediatrics has conducted a study which allays fears that being inoculated with the HPV vaccine would encourage sexual promiscuity among teenagers. The human papilloma virus can lead to cervical cancer and the vaccine helps protect against transmission of the virus. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection, with about 50% of sexually active men and women contracting it at some point during their lives. Early sexual behaviors and multiple sexual partners are risk factors for infection, but other studies have hinted that the vaccine may not encourage sexual activity; in one review of 1,398 girls ages 11 to 12, there was no indication that that girls who received the vaccine planned to engage in more sexual activity. These studies, however, were largely based on self-reported data. The current study is one of the first to evaluate sexual activity after vaccination among this age group based on clinical data.
The Dangerous Gynecological Symptoms Women Ignore Posted by Staff (09/24/2012 @ 9:08 pm)  Free Image Courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net
The signs of gynecological cancer can be elusive to most women. The most common symptoms; fatigue, bloating and back pain, can be mistaken as benign annoyances which happen from time to time. So, when do you need to be concerned that there may be something more serious which needs your attention? There will be nearly 90,000 cases of gynecological cancers diagnosed in the U.S. in 2012, with more than half of those being cervical cancer, according to estimates from the National Cancer Institute. About 30,000 women will die of these five cancers this year; the deadliest of the five is ovarian cancer, which will cause about half of these deaths.
Knowing what is normal for you is the best way help your doctor monitor changes and what those changes may mean for your health. Study Shows That Lung Cancer Is On The Rise Among Non-Smokers Posted by Staff (09/05/2012 @ 3:20 pm)  Free Image Courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Women are at much higher risk for contracting lung cancer and for women who have never smoked the rate of developing lung cancer is on the rise. The American Association for Cancer Research has found that lung cancer tumors in non-smokers are different than tumors in smokers and they are trying to determine why. The World Health Organization, WHO, recently classified diesel fumes as carcinogenic. This might explain the rise along with other environmental factors. “Not only has there been an increase in the number of women and non-smokers contracting the disease, but there has also been an increase in the number of cases diagnosed in stage 4 of the illness,” lead researcher Dr. Chrystèle Locher said in a statement. This change — 58 percent with stage 4 in 2010 compared with 43 percent in 2000 — might reflect new classifications of different stages of the disease, the researchers said. They also found big changes in the type of cancer being diagnosed. The rate of people developing adenocarcinoma, a form of non-small cell lung cancer, jumped from 35.8 percent to 53.5 percent over the decade.
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Strategies To Fight Weight Gain After Menopause Posted by Staff (08/28/2012 @ 9:31 pm)  Free Image Courtesy of FreeDigitalPhoto.net
It’s not your imagination. Weight gain after menopause is real and sometimes diet and exercise alone simply does not work anymore. As expected, more of the women who got specific diet and nutrition counseling lost weight. But Gibbs and colleagues wanted to know what worked for any of the women who managed to lose weight, regardless of which group they were in. Early on, some of the more obvious diet strategies worked — eating less fried food, staying away from restaurants, avoiding sweets and eating more fish. But these approaches didn’t work for the women in the long term, Gibbs reported in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “What we found at four years is that the women who changed their eating behaviors to eat more fruits and vegetables, who ate less desserts, less sugar-sweetened beverages and less meats and cheeses were more likely to have greater weight loss or less weight gain long term,” says Gibbs, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Physical Activity.
Building lost muscle with weight training and avoiding sugar are probably the two biggest ways to jump start weight loss. Regular exercise and a healthy eating along with good sleep habits contribute to well balanced hormones. There is no quick fix. Real lifestyle changes are key. Smoking Patterns Around The World Alarm Researchers Posted by Staff (08/25/2012 @ 10:11 am) 
Women and young people in developing countries are smoking in increasingly alarming numbers. According to a study in the Lancet Journal, after years of anti-smoking measures have been encouraged across the world, there exists an alarming rate of tobacco use in developing countries. Tobacco is likely to kill half of its users as there are low quit rates. Women and young people are among the most addicted. “Although 1.1 billion people have been covered by the adoption of the most effective tobacco-control policies since 2008, 83 percent of the world’s population are not covered by two or more of these policies,” Gary Giovino of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions in New York, who led the research, told Reuters. Such measures include legislation in some developed nations banning smoking in public places, imposing advertising bans and requiring more graphic health warnings on cigarette packets.
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