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July 7, 2008

Women’s Health Weekly Review: June 29 - July 5

Filed under: Women's Health — Trisha @ 8:00 am

Osteoporosis

Some supercomputing experts at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory have helped to developed bone density “measurements with a large-scale mechanical analysis of the inner-bone microstructure” - ETH Zurich and IBM improve diagnosis of osteoporosis.

Menopause

Sleep problems associated with menopause vary among ethnic groups: “Compared with other ethnic groups, Caucasian women were more likely to report difficulty staying asleep”.

Pregnancy

I’m pretty sure we’re all aware of this by now - Eating junk while pregnant can harm your baby. Apparently some new research “suggests that poor diet may also cause long-lasting, irreversible damage in offspring from heart disease to diabetes”.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Finally, a better understanding of SIDS: New research sheds light on the molecular basis of crib death - possibly there are alterations in brainstem neurons that communicate using serotonin.

Children

Seizures in newborns can be detected with small, portable brain activity monitors

Resuscitation technique after brain injury may do more harm than good: “The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm”.

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kittyigloo said,

on July 16th, 2008 at 9:50 am

Hi,

I just found a blurb about an Osteoporosis seminar being held by iGuard.org. I went to the iguard.org website and this is a service that handles medication recalls and offers a community for patients to interact with patients. I registered because it was free and I want to be a part of this seminar. Anyone use this service already?

Subject Line: Osteoporosis Telephone Seminar

iGuard.org has invited one of the nation’s leading experts on osteoporosis, Dr. Bess Dawson-Hughes, to host a free telephone seminar exclusively for iGuard.org users on July 22 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.