First West Coast baby born using frozen egg technique
...hrough in vitro fertilization. In this technique a woman is given hormone injections to increase egg production. The eggs then must be retrieved on a set day, usually just before a woman's body might start to release the eggs in ovulation. The eggs are fertilized in the lab with the partner's sperm, and th...Mutant gene found to cause early ovarian failure in mice
... weeks of age - comparable to early adulthood in a woman - they were sterile. Further study revealed that ...ion, keeping follicles in the resting pool until a woman wants to become fertile - perhaps at a later-than-usual age. In contrast, current oral contraceptive......have AD in their 80s. A BMI of 29 corresponds to a woman who is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs about 170 pounds. "It's important to note that the ideal weight is not super-skinny," said Gustafson. "The average BMI for women who did not develop AD was 25, the border between healthy and overweight. A modera...Folic acid may have no immediate impact on Down Syndrome
...ty may be that Trisomy 21 originates even before a woman is born. "A woman's eggs are formed when she herse...ing folic acid may have no impact on the eggs of a woman now to prevent Trisomy 21, it may modify the eggs of her daughter to reduce the risk when she has he...Estrogen found as link between obesity and breast cancer in postmenopausal women
...use). "This is an example of a risk factor that a woman can control," Dorgan said. "The effect of obesity on breast cancer risk is important because the prevalence of obesity is high and increasing." According to Dorgan, the estimated prevalence of obesity in U.S. women aged 60 to 74 increased from 29 p...Genetic clues may show which women face breast cancer risk from HRT
...ung women cause breast cells to multiply, but as a woman enters menopause, hormone levels plummet and breast cell multiplication slows. Hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women introduces hormones present in very small amounts in such women. That means additional breast cell multiplication--and ...Victoria Hale of Institute for OneWorld Health Named Fellow by International Women's Forum
...atments for people in the developing world. "As a woman in a predominantly male scientific culture and as a social entrepreneur carving out new territory for an enterprise that is also lacking female mentorship, leveraging institutional change requires powerful connections and partnerships," Hale says. "...UGA scientist to study effect of air quality on unborn babies
A pregnant woman walks down the street of a large city. She doesn't know it, but the air she's breathing could be hurting her unborn baby. From recent studies in many countries, scientists suspect a relationship between exposure to air pollution and health problems l...President Bush names Rutgers' Evelyn Witkin for nations highest science honor
...nt, is one of eight honorees selected and the 30th woman to receive the medal, which will be presented at a White House ceremony Nov. 6. "The ideas and breakthroughs in fundamental science and engineering by these extraordinary pioneers have influenced thousands of other researchers," said Rita Colwell, d...Exercise and healthy weight delay cancer even among women with highest genetic risk
...0 people from families each identified through one woman with breast cancer, in the most extensive study of...d a 67 percent chance. Regardless of what year a woman was born, if she exercised during her teenage years, she was likely to develop cancer later in life ...By the year 2050, human population could add 2.6 billion people, reports Rockefeller scientist
...l total fertility rate fell from five children per woman per lifetime in 1950 to 2.7 children in 2000, a result of worldwide efforts to make contraception and reproductive health services available, as well as other cultural changes. Encouraging as this is, if fertility remains at present levels instead of...Researchers call for trials of menstrual cycle monitors used for natural family planning
... at least half the time that it indicated that the woman was in a non-fertile part of her cycle while the worst was wrong nearly three-quarters of the time. By contrast, the symptothermal method, which relies on a woman's own observation of two indicators of fertility changes in her basal body temperature...Tamoxifen's effectiveness may be compromised by hot flash drug
... on the therapy until the trial's conclusion. Each woman also took paroxetine for four weeks. Extensive laboratory analysis of the women's blood plasma showed a significant decrease in a metabolite of tamoxifen after treatment with paroxetine. The researchers discovered a previously unknown metabolite wh...Genetic info of cloned pigs may help babies before birth
...th IUGR," he said. "If you happen to know that the woman is susceptible to IUGR, you could intervene early in gestation to try and increase the nutritional level of that fetus. The problem is that IUGR is usually diagnosed later in the pregnancy, and by then your options are limited, so this would allow th...Regenerative chemical turns muscle cells into stem cells
...a progenitor cell any more than one would expect a woman to give birth to her own mother. However, such phenomena do happen in nature from time to time. Some amphibians have the ability to regenerate body parts that are severed by using dedifferentiation. When the unlucky amphibian loses a limb or it...UF study: World shark attacks sink again, may signal long-term trend
...ed attack involved Deborah Franzman, a 50-year-old woman who was mauled to death by a great white shark on Aug. 19 while swimming alongside a group of seals off the California coast, Burgess said. Another high-profile incident that didn't end in fatality was a Halloween attack off Kauai's North Shore on 13...Scientists at Scripps Research Institute describe structure of receptor on surface of 1918 flu virus
... Pathology. Another sample was taken from an Inuit woman who had succumbed to the infection and had been buried in the Alaskan permafrost. Together, these samples yielded a number of pieces of RNA from the virus. A few years ago, Taubenberger and his colleagues at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology ...Substances found in blood may predict development of preeclampsia
...cur suddenly, without warning. Usually, a pregnant woman with preeclampsia develops dangerously high blood pressure and begins excreting protein in the urine. In some cases, the condition may progress to eclampsia, a series of potentially fatal seizures. Although the high blood pressure and seizures can b...Three personal ads for physics
...amples that involve the infamous likes of "a 60 kg woman getting on 10 kg wagons filled with 5 kg bricks," unless he's talking about Wonder Woman....Double mastectomies significantly lower risk of breast cancer in women who are genetically at risk
...e US in 2001. The lifetime risk of any particular woman getting breast cancer is about one in eight. ...d it may be worth testing for either mutation if a woman has a particularly strong family history of breast cancer. If a woman is found to carry either muta...