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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 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.
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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
