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According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), between 30 and 50 million Americans are lactose intolerant.

Hormone Replacement Therapy in Postmenopausal Women: Urinary N-Telopeptide of Type I Collagen Monitors Therapeutic Effect and Predicts Response of Bone Mineral Density

Preliminary Results of the Sunlight OmnisenseTM Bone Sonometer: In-vivo and In-vitro Precision and Correlation with DXA.

Hyperthyroidism in postmenopausal women is associated with accelerated bone loss that results in lower BMD as detected by DEXA, SPA, QCT as well as bone markers’ levels. However, there is no data of QUS evaluation in thyrotoxic patients.

Vertebral fracture is usually the earliest clinical manifestation of severe osteoporosis. Early detection of vertebral fracture risk is therefore crucial for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

In a recent study of women with repeated miscarriages and fibroids, researchers found that removing them significantly increased the live birth rate. This increase was noted with both fibroids that distorted the uterine cavity as well as those that did not.

Diethylstilbestrol, or DES, a synthetic form of estrogen, was prescribed from the early 1940s until 1971 to help women with certain complications of pregnancy, primarily miscarriages. Use of DES declined in the 1960s after studies showed that it might not be effective in preventing pregnancy complications.

Infertility is a disease that affects the reproductive organs of both men and women. It impairs one of the body’s most basic functions: the ability to have children. Infertility affects about 6.1 million people in the United States alone; ten percent of the reproductive-age population-both men and women.

In humans, serotonin has typically been investigated as a neurotransmitter. However, serotonin also functions as a hormone across animal phyla, including those lacking an organized central nervous system. This hormonal action allows serotonin to have physiological consequences in systems outside the central nervous system. Fluctuations in estrogen levels over the lifespan and during ovarian cycles cause predictable changes in serotonin systems in female mammals.

Osteoporosis results in fractures and treatment of osteoporosis has been shown to reduce risk of fracture particularly in those who have had a history of fracture.

Fracture represents the single most important clinical event in patients with osteoporosis, yet remains under-predicted. As few premonitory symptoms for fracture exist, it is of critical importance that physicians effectively and efficiently identify individuals at increased fracture risk.

The International Consensus adopted by the IFFS is an up-to-date focus on modern techniques of Assisted Medical Procreation (AMP), with respect to the reasons for which they have been proposed, the conditions for their realization and their possible risks.

To mark January 2004 as Cervical Cancer Screening Month, the National Cervical Cancer Public Education Campaign today urged women to get screened for cervical cancer in order to prevent the disease.

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Norma Larrea, of Mexico City, was 47 when she got osteoporosis. "I couldn't do my household chores and had pain throughout my body," she recalls. Her doctor did not diagnose osteoporosis. Eventually, after considerable suffering, a specialist in osteoporosis diagnosed her properly and treated her for the disease. Norma was lucky. Although her diagnosis was late, it came before she broke any bones.

The coming of the Internet can be compared with the birth of your first child. Everyone tells you that it will change your life beyond belief and you think you have understood what they mean and that you are perfectly prepared... until the day arrives.

The Internet has the potential to revolutionise the way we obtain and disseminate medical information. There is an enormous volume and variety of health-related information on the Internet [1, 2]. Some information available on the Internet about perinatology (aimed at professionals) is discussed here. We restrict ourselves mainly to websites for professionals in the English language.

The diagnostic sonography (ultrasound) profession is populated by technophiles. In general, people who gravitate to ultrasound are not afraid of technology or computers. For this reason alone, it is not surprising that sonographers and sonologists have flocked to use the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) for education, consultations and communications with colleagues across the globe.

Conversely, doctors found themselves facing Internet Printout Syndrome: patients would come to their offices armed with reams of paper about their conditions. It was impossible for the doctor to sort through all this information during the diminishing time allotted for an office visit.

Logging on to the Internet, particularly as a lay person, the sheer volume of information is alarming, and there is often no indication of how up to date it is and from which sources it was drawn.

During the last decade, the production of medical information has doubled every 2 years. It is predicted that information will double at an even faster rate, i.e. every 1–3 months [1]. This dramatic rate of changing medical knowledge presents a challenge for physicians to keep themselves up to date.

2000 September 17-21  Tblisi, Georgia Xth World Congress on Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Contact: chark@access.sanet.geSeptember 20-21 London, UK Psychosexual medicine in practice Contact: http://www.med.ic.ac.uk/dp/dpshSeptember 20-23 Leuven, Belgium From Gamete to Newborn Contact: http://www.gamete-to-newborn.orgOctober 04-06 London, UK Medical problems facing obstetricians and  gynaecologists in pregnancy Contact: http://www.med.ic.ac.uk/dp/dpsh/default.htm  or sympreg@ic.ac.ukOctober 04-07 Zagreb, Croatia 10th World Congress Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISUOG) Contact: http://www.hko.hr or http://www.isuog.orgOctober 12 London, UK Maternal mental health and the child Contact: http://www.med.ic.ac.uk/dp/dpsh October 19-21 Paris, France 9th Congress of the European Society for  Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE) Contact: http://www.convergences.fr/uk/aesge.htm October 20 London, UKWomen and children with HIV and AIDS Contact: http://www.med.ic.ac.uk/dp/dpsh October 21-26 San Diego, CA, USA 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine Contact: http://www.asrm.org October 22-25 Rome, Italy XXVth Annual Meeting of the International  UroGynecological Association (IUGA) Contact: http://www.iuga2000.com  October 28-30 Bruges, Belgium 3rd Congress of the European Society of Gynecology Contact: thomas@ocst.ucl.ac.be November 03-04 Halle/Saale, Germany Gynecologic surgery: from experience to  evidence-based medicine Contact: gerda.bertram@medizin.uni-halle.de November 14-19 Orlando, FL, USA Global Congress of Gynecologic Endoscopy  AAGL 29th Annual Meeting  Contact: http://aagl.com/aaglcal.htmNovember 23-26 Brussels, Belgium 5th World Congress on the Internet in Medicine (MEDNET 2000) Contact: http://www.mdf.be/mednet2000/index2.htm December 06-08 Florence, Italy 8th World Congress of Gynecological Endocrinology Contact: http://www.biomedicaltechnologies.com/cinteng.html 2001 March 28-31 Chicago, IL, USA 10th Annual ISGE Congress Contact: http://www.eventsintl.com/isge2001

Feasibility of laparoscopic myomectomy is now accepted even if the attention is still stressed on technical difficulties due to myoma location and size and difficulty in reapproximating the incision by laparoscopic suturing that requires perfect mastery of endoscopic suturing.

The objective of this manuscript is to study the pregnancy rate and the prognostic factors for conception after myomectomy carried out in cases of infertility.

A case of unicornuate uterus with cavitary non-communicating rudimentary horn suddenly revealing with acute abdomen is presented. The patient was managed by laparoscopic miniaccess hemihysterectomy.

The frequency of chromosome aberration in spontaneous and induced abortions in the first three-month period of pregnancy has been presented in this study. The examination has been done in the period from 2001 till 2002 on the sample of 80 chorion and fetal tissue of 8-12 weeks of gestation.

UK fertility experts have sounded a note of cautious optimism about the safety of preserving ovarian tissue and transplanting it back into women after cancer treatment.