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A question women often ask is how long will their menopausal hot flashes last. The answer is that the duration generally varies between 6 months and over 5 years, with cases of women reporting hot flashes even 10 years after the final menstrual cycle. To better understand the natural course of this [...]
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The rate of dead-born fetuses in industrialized countries is about 1:200 pregnancies reaching at least 22 weeks. In order to examine the risk factors for this disease, a meta-analysis has been performed on studies where researchers had considered at least one risk factor in those pregnancies ended [...]
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Normally, to control too abundant menstruations, oral contraceptives are prescribed, even if the evidence on efficacy is poor. With a randomized and double-blinded study sponsored by pharmaceutical industry, the efficacy of a new contraceptive pill, based on estradiol valerate and dienogest, has [...]
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In the WHI (Women's Health Initiative) Study, 11,000 postmenopausal women undergoing hysterectomy have been treated with conjugated equine estrogens or with placebo for averagely 5.9 years; the study has been interrupted after averagely 7.1 years when it was seen that the group treated with [...]
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After the WHI study, researchers are more and more searching non-hormonal methods capable to control menopausal symptoms, even if the obtained results are poor and the substitutive hormone therapy remains, for the present, the only effective approach. In this study, 205 women in perimenopause and [...]
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Previous studies have marked the relationship existing between the polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and the increased risk for depressive disorders; according to these marks, one has wondered whether a screening for depression is available for all the patients affected by PCOS. A meta-analysis has [...]
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The problem of nausea during pregnancy is often an invalidating condition for which researchers have tried to find a remedy with various drugs, among which, in the past, an association between doxylamine and pyridoxine, withdrawn from the market in 1983 because of associated congenital [...]
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There have been various proposals in establishing which are the normal values of TSH during pregnancy, and, beside this, there is still a great uncertainty on possible maternal and fetal effects by a subclinical hypothyroidism condition. With a prospective study, some researchers have then assessed [...]
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When a woman is under antidepressant treatment and is pregnant, the continuation of the therapy is always a problem with no easy solution. In order to verify the safety of the most used drugs, a review has been performed on the literature published in Pubmed between 1980 and 2009, using the [...]
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With the spreading of ultrasound and hysteroscopic techniques, the finding of endometrial polyps, which are generally considered as harmless and with no cancer risk, has greatly increased. But is it really so? Some researchers have performed a meta-analysis on 17 studies concerning 10,572 women, to [...]