Botox injected into womb to relieve cramps

By Tamara McLean
A DRUG famed for smoothing women’s wrinkles may soon be soothing their period pain too.
In a world-first trial at Sydney’s Royal Hospital for Women, doctors have begun injecting Botox into the womb of women with severe and prolonged monthly cramps.
Up to 10 per cent of fertile women suffer from period pain, when the [...]

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AAP Issues Guidelines for Menstrual Cycle Evaluation

News Author: Laurie Barclay, MD
Evaluation of the menstrual cycle is a viable tool to assess healthy development of teen girls’ menstrual patterns, according to new guidelines published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in the November issue of Pediatrics.
“Young patients and their parents often are unsure about what represents normal menstrual patterns, and [...]

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Procedure Promises To Free Women From Periods

GARLAND, Texas — North Texas women are taking advantage of a new procedure that promises to safely put an end to their periods. Doctors say stopping the excessive bleeding and cramping doesn’t have to require a hysterectomy or surgery now that an in-office procedure is available.
Cryoablation uses a probe to freeze the inside of the [...]

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Continuous Birth Control Enables Women to Plan Their Period Around Their Lifestyles, Says DoctorSolve

New research indicates that it is safe and effective to use birth control without stopping for a period.
Vancouver, B.C. (PRWEB) May 9, 2006 — Would it surprise you to learn that for many years, women have been deliberately skipping their period? Female athletes and women planning important events such as their wedding or a vacation [...]

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Ovulation Fertility

LOS ANGELES — A new study shows the length of a menstrual cycle affects the ability to get pregnant.
"We found that fertility was highest and the risk of miscarriage was lowest following cycles of 30 to 31 days," said Dr. Small.
Which means if you menstruate every 28 days, you have less chance of getting pregnant. [...]

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Hands off our ovaries

Susan Maushart
29apr06
OOOPS. Looks like the Creator messed up again. Lucky for Him the medical establishment is there to pick up the pieces. It was bad enough putting the mango pit in sideways. But giving women ovaries when He could have put something useful in there – well, that goes beyond incompetence. It verges on malpractice.
That’s [...]

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