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CHICAGO--Giving one year of estrogen replacement to female athletes with exercise-induced menstrual irregularities improves drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction and...

Too few women with diabetes receive recommended preconception counseling

CHICAGO--Not enough women of childbearing age who have diabetes are receiving the recommended preconception counseling, a new study suggests. The...

Glucose monitoring helps prevent hypoglycemia in hospitalized heart disease patients

CHICAGO--Hospitalized patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) may need frequent glucose monitoring to prevent hypoglycemia and death, new research...

Veterans with type 2 diabetes improve blood sugar control using telehealth

CHICAGO--A telehealth program for diabetes self-management not only shortens the wait to talk to a physician specialist versus an in-person...

Experts issue recommendations to improve testosterone prescribing practices

Chicago, IL--New scientific evidence has strengthened the case for reserving testosterone therapy for well-documented cases of hypogonadism, a condition where...

Endocrine Society awards inaugural Baxter Prize to women’s health entrepreneur

CHICAGO--French physician and researcher André Ulmann, M.D., Ph.D., won the Endocrine Society's first-ever John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for...

Chemicals in lavender and tea tree oil appear to be hormone disruptors

CHICAGO--A new study lends further evidence to a suspected link between abnormal breast growth in young boys--called prepubertal gynecomastia--and regular...

Americans slow down the clock of age

Americans may be aging more slowly than they were two decades ago. A new study by University of Southern California...

Pediatric Orthodontics: Theory and Practice

Orthodontics has made remarkable progress in their understanding of growth, tissue response, increasingly sophisticated diagnostic techniques, available materials, and information....

The absence of ants — Entomologist confirms first Saharan farming 10,000 years ago

Credit: University of Huddersfield BY analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers from the universities...

Mobile application detecting atrial fibrillation reduces the risk of stroke

Credit: Hanna Oksanen / University of Turku A new application developed at the University of Turku, Finland, can detect atrial...

BU: Brazil yellow fever outbreak necessitates vaccines

Brazil is in the midst of a yellow fever outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus reaching popular tourist destinations that do...

Near-infrared photoactivatable oxygenation catalysts of amyloid peptide

Credit: The University of Tokyo A new, biocompatible photooxygenation catalyst that can selectively oxygenate and degrade the pathogenic aggregation of...

Tree care workers need better training to handle dangers on the job, Rutgers study finds

Credit: Nick Romanenko / Rutgers University As climate change increases the risk to trees from severe storms, insects, diseases, drought...

Study casts doubt on ketamine nasal sprays for depression

Nasal spray devices have been touted as a promising way to deliver ketamine to patients with treatment-resistant depression, with this...

Obesity and health problems: New research on a safeguard mechanism

Obesity and its negative impacts on health - including metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular complications - are a...

New solution to harmful algal blooms raises hope of economic and environmental benefits

Credit: Dr Martin Rejzek - John Innes Centre A cheap, safe and effective method of dealing with harmful algal blooms...

Climate change promotes the spread of mosquito and tick-borne viruses

Spurred on by climate change, international travel and international trade, disease-bearing insects are spreading to ever-wider parts of the world....

3-D tissue model of developing heart could help drug safety testing for pregnant women