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More evidence hormone therapy can muddy mammograms

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hormone replacement therapy after menopause may interfere with the accuracy of mammograms used to screen for breast cancer - and the risk may be greater with hormones delivered by patch or injection compared with pills, a new study finds.

Small changes now, big rewards later

Women who are middle-age and older face health concerns particular to their gender and age, such as osteoporosis, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and microvascular disease (a type of heart disease more common in women).

Bionovo Receives NIH Grant to Develop Drugs for the Treatment of Female-Specific Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI, BNVID) announced today that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Small Business Technology Transfer Program, has approved and funded a grant to be shared by Bionovo and Dr. Dale Leitman from the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). The grant ...

Removal of breasts, ovaries can cut cancer risks for some women, study says

Surgery to remove healthy ovaries gives a triple benefit to high-risk women: It lowers their threat of breast and ovarian cancer ...

For women with cancer gene, new surgery support

Of all the devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea dilemmas in modern medicine, the one faced by women with defective BRCA genes is especially awful.