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Health News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the health facet of life. Health-News Blog: Womens-Health News SWHR announces top five womens health stories of 2007: December 21, 2007 by Adam Voiland
Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): The Society for Women’s Health Research has declared its top five womens-health stories of 2007. The stories cover advancements of particular interest to women and new sex-specific treatments. The list of stories is as follows: 1. First consensus on ovarian cancer symptoms - In June, the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation (GCF) declared the first national consensus on ovarian cancer symptoms. This type of cancer has been long considered a silent killer because of the perceived lack of warning signs. There is a 90 percent cure rate when women are diagnosed in Stage I of the disease. The announcement and promotion of the consensus statement should lead to earlier diagnosis and earlier intervention for many women. Health-News Blog: Womens Health News (Continued) 2. Technology advances aid fight against breast cancer - In February, the FDA approved a molecular test that determines the likelihood of breast cancer returning within five to 10 years after a womans initial cancer. In August, research was published noting that magnetic resonance imaging enables radiologists to better identify tumours missed by mammography and ultrasound in women at high-risk for breast cancer. These developments underscore the growing role advanced medical technology is playing in the fight against breast cancer. Health-News Blog: Womens Health News (Continued) 3. Mounting evidence of sex differences in heart disease - Women with cardiovascular disease are 50 percent more likely to die from it than men with the disease. More women than men suffer from small vessel heart disease. More women than men are having a stroke in middle life. Women have a poorer quality of life after a stroke than men. Researchers are now beginning to understand these differences and treatments to account for them have generally not yet been developed, underscoring the need for greater research support. Health-News Blog: Womens Health News (Continued) 4. Improved model predicts breast cancer risk in African-American women -Researchers from National Cancer Institute have developed a new model, called the CARE model, for calculating invasive breast cancer risk that has been found to give better estimates of the number of breast cancers that would develop in African American women 50 to 79 years of age than an earlier model, which was based primarily on data from white women. The new model was unveiled in November. Health-News Blog: Womens Health News (Continued) 5. Young girls obesity rates rising - According to research published in April, four-year-old girls are six times more likely to have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more than they were 20 years ago. The results point to recent changes in kids environment and lifestyles, which merits monitoring, further research and action, given the health risks associated with adulthood obesity such as increased risks for heart disease and type-2 diabetes. Health News Blog Comment:
Women's health issues are more crucial than men's health are, since kids health depends on their mothers' health too! If women are healthy, the whole family tends to be so. It's easier for women to be healthy since they do not have to face as many social pressures causing stress as men have to. But then it's women only who have to suppress their psyche more than men have to under the existing social norms. Suppression is a bigger stressor than performance pressure is. So if women really want to turn healthy, they have to come out of their secondary status in the society to be at par with the status of men in each and every sphere of life. And then, since women are less aggressive by dint of their biological nature, they can teach us a lesson or two in health by reducing the speed of the rat race that we are in! May be then, we all are able to learn how to live life in an easier and a healthier way on earth. I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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