Latest Female reproductive system Stories

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI) announced today the appointment of Steven R. Goldstein, M.D., to the company's Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Goldstein is a world leader on uterine safety. He has extensive experience in menopausal and perimenopausal uterine safety studies for several Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators (SERMS). "We are very excited to have Dr. Goldstein on the medical advisory board as we are advancing Menerba(TM) to...

New study shows that a long period of estrogen deprivation can lead to loss of sensitivity and protective effects in the brain and weaken areas normally resistant to stroke damageEighteen years ago this month the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would sponsor a landmark study to examine women and cardiovascular disease. Known as the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the study enrolled more than 161,000 women. By 2004 however, the government had ended two arms of the study...

MELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The scientific and medical community mourns the loss of our esteemed colleague and good friend Emeritus Professor James Boyer Brown AM, MSc (NZ), PhD (Edin), MSc (Melb), DSc (Edin), FRANZCOG (Ad Eundem), Life Member Fertility Society of Australia, Life Member Endocrine Society of Australia, who passed away on Saturday 31st October 2009, aged 90. Born 7 October 1919 in New Zealand and educated at Auckland University College (MSc - First Class...

Women who feel comfortable and positive about female genitals find it easier to orgasm, U.S. researchers suggest. These are important findings about body image, Debby Herbenick, associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Indiana University, says in a statement. Our culture often portrays women's genitals as dirty and in need of cleaning and grooming. Some women may have had greater exposure to such negative...

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI) today announced that Dr. Elise Saunier, a Research Scientist at Bionovo, will present the results of a study on the effects of two plant-derived, tissue-selective estrogen receptor alpha (ERa) modulators (TSERaM) for obesity at the 20th Annual Meeting of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS) in San Diego on Friday, October 2nd. For most women, the menopausal transition results in a 10-15 pound weight...

A Swedish man says he is stimulating his breasts with a pump in an attempt to produce milk from his own body. Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, of Stockholm, said he began his experiment, which is being documented by Swedish TV8, Tuesday and plans to pump his breasts at three-hour intervals every day until the start of December in a bid to create milk, The Local reported Wednesday. Anything that doesn't do any harm is worth trying out. And if it works it could prove very important for men's ability to...

Researchers report that the paradoxical strategy of treating breast cancers that have become resistant to anti-estrogen therapies with estrogen actually proved to be effective in some cases.On top of that, the estrogen even caused some of the tumors to become sensitive to anti-estrogen drugs again.Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the findings could lead to a partial reversal in how metastatic breast cancer is now being treated, which involves the use of medicines...

Young women with early-stage ovarian cancer can preserve fertility by keeping at least one ovary or the uterus without increasing the risk of dying from the disease, a new study finds.Although ovarian cancer occurs most often in older women, up to 17 percent of ovarian tumors occur in women age 40 or younger, many of whom have early stage disease. Surgery for ovarian cancer usually involves hysterectomy -- complete removal of the uterus and ovaries -- which not only results in the loss of...

Girls who are repeatedly raped through genital penetration seldom have obvious physical evidence to confirm it, says a report in the journal Pediatrics.Dr. Jim Anderst at the Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri, and colleagues worked with 506 girls between 5 and 17 who admitted to experiencing penile-genital abuse. In every case, the abuse happened 72 hours before the girls reported it.Anderst and his colleagues labeled the abuse as "penetrating," if the...

For decades, scientists assumed that the ovary alone produced steroid hormones during pregnancy. In a new study in mice, however, researchers demonstrate that once an embryo attaches to the uterine wall, the uterus itself actually synthesizes the estrogen needed to sustain the pregnancy.This is the first time that the uterus has been identified as an endocrine organ, said University of Illinois veterinary biosciences professor Indrani Bagchi, who led the study with doctoral student Amrita...