Medical News
9-Year-Old Girl Attacked By Coyote Just Outside Her Home
Tech Times - 17 Mar 2018 14:01
A young girl got bruised, scratched, and bitten when she was attacked by a coyote just outside their house. What is the first thing to do when bitten by a possibly rabid animal?
Abortions Are Safe And Effective, Says Study, But The Quality Of Care Varies From State To State
Tech Times - 17 Mar 2018 13:20
Getting an abortion in the United States is safe and effective, generally speaking. However, state restrictions play a huge role in affecting the quality of abortion care for women, according to a new landmark study.
Endocrine Society awards inaugural Baxter Prize to women's health entrepreneur
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) French physician and researcher André Ulmann, M.D., Ph.D., won the Endocrine Society's first-ever John D. Baxter Prize for Entrepreneurship for his advances in women's health and rare endocrine c...
Experts issue recommendations to improve testosterone prescribing practices
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) New scientific evidence has strengthened the case for reserving testosterone therapy for well-documented cases of hypogonadism, a condition where the body does not produce enough testosterone, End...
Exposure to low levels of BPA during pregnancy can lead to altered brain development
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) New research in mice provides an explanation for how exposure to the widely used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy, even at levels lower than the regulated 'safe' human exposure level, c...
Chemicals in lavender and tea tree oil appear to be hormone disruptors
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) A new study lends further evidence to a suspected link between abnormal breast growth in young boys--called prepubertal gynecomastia--and regular exposure to lavender or tea tree oil, by finding t...
Prenatal exposure to plasticizer may affect male fertility in future generations
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) Chemicals found in a variety of routinely used consumer products may be contributing to the substantial drop in sperm counts and sperm quality among men in recent decades, a new study in mice sugg...
Roux-en-Y surgery linked with more non-vertebral fractures than adjustable gastric banding
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) Patients undergoing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery may be at greater risk for non-vertebral fracture than those having adjustable gastric banding (AGB), a new population-based study repor...
Too few women with diabetes receive recommended preconception counseling
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) Not enough women of childbearing age who have diabetes are receiving the recommended preconception counseling, a new study suggests. The findings will be presented in a poster on Saturday at ENDO ...
Glucose monitoring helps prevent hypoglycemia in hospitalized heart disease patients
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) Hospitalized patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) may need frequent glucose monitoring to prevent hypoglycemia and death, new research reports. The results will be presented in a pos...
Clinical medicine training prepares medical students to treat transgender patients
EurekAlert! - 17 Mar 2018 06:00
(The Endocrine Society) Medical students who are specifically trained in clinical transgender medicine are better prepared to treat transgender patients, a new study from Boston University School of Medicine suggests. Th...