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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 133
HAY-SMITH and DUMOULIN, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, DSM, University of Otago, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand, have reviewed (51 references) pelvic floor muscle training for urinary incontinence in women.
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Issue 127
HSU and co-workers, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, have studied a Chinese medical preparation for painful periods.
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Issue 127
MINCIULLO and colleagues, Department of Human Pathology, Division and School of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Messina, Italy, have described muscle damage induced by black cohosh.
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Issue 120
CASANUEVA and co-workers, Public Health Research Branch, National Institute of Perinatology, Mexico City, Mexico, casanuev@servidor.unam.mx, have conducted a trial of vitamin C to prevent premature breaking of the waters i1
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Issue 120
DUCROS and co-authors, Laboratoire Nutrition, Vieillissement et Maladies Cardiovasculaires, Universite Joseph Fourier, Domaine de la Merci, 38700 La Tronche, France, VDucros@chu-grenoble.fr, have researched the influence of 1
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Issue 120
HARTMAN and others, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, tjh9@psu.edu, have investigated the consequences of moderate alcohol consumption in postmenopausal women.
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Issue 119
FACCHINETTI and co-authors, Maternal-Infantile Department, OU of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, have reviewed polyunsaturated fatty acids and the risk of premature birth. Abstract: Premature birth is chara1
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Issue 119
ZIAEI and others, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medical Science, Tarbiat Modarres University, PO Box 14115.111, Tehran, IR, Iran, have carried out a randomized controlled trial of vitamin E in the treatment of painful periods.
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Issue 114
ELDEN and colleagues, Perinatal Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Institute for the Health of Women and Children, Sahlgrenska Academy, East Hospital, 41685 Gothenburg, Sweden, helen.elden@vgregion.se, have con1
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Issue 111
KESSEL and KRONENBERG, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA, bkessel@queens.org, have reviewed (72 references) the role of complementa1
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Issue 111
ZHANG and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA, clinn@u.washington.edu, have studied the vitamin C levels in pregnant women 1
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Issue 108
MEHL-MADRONA, Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, 1249 N. Mountain St., Tucson, AZ 85719, USA, madrona@email.arizona.edu, has studied hypnosis to facilitate uncomplicated birth.
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Issue 107
KANTOLA and colleagues, Department of Chemistry, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. marjatta.kantola@metla.fi, have investigated the role of selenium in pregnancy.
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Issue 106
PFRUNDER and colleagues, Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Women's Hospital, University Clinic Basel / Kantonsspital, Basel Switzerland, have studied the interaction of St John's wort with low-dose oral contraceptive pills.
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Issue 102
SMITH and colleagues, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, caroline.smith@unisa.edu.au, report on a randomized controlled trial of ginger against nausea and vomiting 1
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Issue 100
KVORNING and colleagues, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospital of Helsingborg, Sweden, nina.kvorning-terno@helsingborgslasarett.se, have found that acupuncture relieves pelvic and low back1
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Issue 98
PORTNOI and colleagues, The Motherisk Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada, report on a study of the safety and effectiveness of ginger for the treatment of nausea and vomiting in pregna1
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Issue 98
RAYMAN and co-workers, School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford BU2 7XH, UK, m.rayman@surrey.ac.uk, have found that the pregnancy disease pre-eclamspia is associated with low selenium statu1
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Issue 98
SRIPRAMOTE and LEKHYANANDA, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Medical College, Vajira Hospital, Thailand, have conducted a randomized trial comparing ginger and vitamin B6 in the treatment of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
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Issue 97
SHU, School of Nursing, Chung San Medical University, shl@csmu.edu.tw, has researched the effects of using a crisis intervention programme on the psychosocial responses and coping strategies of women during in vitro fertilization.
