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Research Updates: women's health
Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.
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Issue 155
BRETT AND KEENAN, National Center for Health Statistics/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA. KBrett@cdc.gov write that the use of complementary and alternative medicine 1
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Issue 154
BURNS and COLLEAGUES School of Health and Social Care, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK. eburns@brookes.ac.uk aimed to determine the feasibility of conducting a randomized contro1
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Issue 153
SINGH and co-authors, BRCG, Midlothian, Virginia, USA, have surveyed American women about menopausal issues.
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Issue 151
CHUNG and colleagues, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Sinchon-Dong, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, Korea, have evaluated black cohosh and St John’s wort for menopausal symptoms.
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Issue 151
ROTEM and KAPLAN, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva, Israel, have studied a herbal complex for menopausal symptoms.
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Issue 150
ALLEN and co-workers, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA, jallen@son.jhmi.edu, have investigated the effect of soy isoflavones on the blood lipid profile in postmenopausal women.
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Issue 149
ALBERS and BORDERS, University of New Mexico College of Nursing, Albuquerque, NM 87131-5688, USA, lalbers@salud.unm.edu, have looked at how to minimize genital trauma and associated pain after vaginal bi1
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Issue 148
CHEONG and co-authors, Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, 700 West State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2059, USA, report that soya isoflavones do not prevent the loss of Calcium from bones in postmenopausal women.
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Issue 147
COHEN and co-workers, General Internal Medicine Section, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, CA 94121-1598, USA, Beth.Cohen@ucsf.edu, have carried out a pilot study of yoga in the treatment of hot flushes.
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Issue 142
BELISLE and colleagues, Montreal, QC, Canada, have provided guidelines for the medical care of menopausal women.
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Issue 142
OLAFSDOTTIR and others, Public Health Institute of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, have studied the relationship between expectant mothers’ diet in late pregnancy and weight gain.
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Issue 141
CHANG and colleagues, National Tainan Institue of Nursing, Republic of China, have studied the effects of massage on labour pain.
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Issue 141
ZWELLING and colleagues, Hill-Rom Company, Sarasota, FL, USA, have written about how to implement complementary therapies for women in labour.Abstract: Complementary therapies have been a part of nursing practice for centuries and are s1
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Issue 141
HELMENREICH and co-workers, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston School of Nursing [corrected] USA, have meta-analyzed trials of acupoint stimulation for nausea and vomiting in pregnant women.
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Issue 140
CARR and colleagues, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9032, USA, have looked at the effects of vitamin E supplementatio1
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Issue 137
BECKMANN and GARRETT, QE2 Jubilee Hospital, Kessels Road, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia, 4108, drmikeb@hotmail.com, have reviewed (35 references) antenatal perineal massage for the reduction of episiotom1
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Issue 137
UEBELHACK and co-workers, Clinic of Psychiatry, Clinic of Gynecology and St Gertrauden-Krankenhaus, University Hospital Charite of the Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany, have tested St John’s wort and Black cohosh for menopausal symptoms.
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Issue 136
BASTARD and TIRAN, Kent Women’s Wing, Queen Mary’s Hospital NHS Trust, Frognal Lane, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6LT, UK, warwick1945@aol.com, have reviewed (108 references) the effects on the foetus of aroma1
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Issue 136
HSU and co-authors, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, have studied the effects of a Chinese herbal preparation on uterine contractions in an animal model of painful periods.
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Issue 136
DONOHUE and colleagues, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA, donohueb@unlv.nevada.edu, have carried out a controlled trial of the effects of brief yoga exercises in long-distance runners.
