OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of applied relaxation and electro-acupuncture on vasomotor symptoms in women treated for breast cancer. METHODS Thirty-eight postmenopausal women with breast cancer and vasomotor symptoms were randomized to treatment with electro-acupuncture (n = 19) or applied relaxation (n = 19) during 12 weeks. The number of hot flushes was registered daily in a logbook bef...

Isoflavones are soy phytoestrogens that potentially exert various favorable effects in postmenopausal women, for example, alleviating vasomotor episodes, attenuating bone loss, and stimulating vaginal epithelial maturation. There has, however, been lack of consensus regarding those therapeutic effects. Most clinical studies of isoflavones have been conducted with women who had undergone natural...

OBJECTIVE Exercise may help alleviate menopausal and depressive symptoms in middle-aged women, but sufficient evidence does not currently exist to fully support this theory. Whereas frequent moderate- to vigorous-intensity exercise may be associated with the risk of menopausal hot flashes, light-intensity exercise, such as stretching, is not likely to increase the occurrence of hot flashes. Lit...

Hormone replacement therapy has been proven efficacious for controlling vasomotor symptoms such as hot flushes associated with menopause. Drospirenone is a progestin with antiandrogenic and antimineralocorticoid activity that may be used in combination with estrogen to control hot flushes and offers the potential benefit of minimizing breast tenderness, blood pressure elevations and weight gain...

In the historical period it was commonly held that estrogen had two principal benefits to postmenopausal women: 1) To alleviate the constitutional symptoms related to the climacteric such as vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes), night sweats, somnolence, and vaginal dryness; and, 2.) To work in concert with weight-bearing exercise and diet replete with calcium to decrease or minimize their role in ...

PURPOSE Most breast cancer survivors experience hot flashes; many use complementary or alternative remedies for these symptoms. We undertook a randomized clinical trial of black cohosh, a widely used herbal remedy for menopausal symptoms, among breast cancer patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients diagnosed with breast cancer who had completed their primary treatment were randomly assigned to...

The silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) device has been considering very promising candidate for future nonvolatile flash memory in terms of process compatibility with "oon"itio*f Compleirentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology, scalability, pnocess, prograrn/erase voltage, simplicity, and 2-bitlcell storage. To increase storage capacity_of a flash mernory, 2-bitlcell operati...

Fifty-five depressed menopausal patients took part in a randomized double-blind cross-over trial using ;Harmogen' (piperazine oestrone sulphate) and placebo. The Beck depression inventory, hot flush counts, and patients' subjective assessment of well-being were used to assess clinical status. Hormonal, biochemical and coagulation profiles were carried out. Hot flushes improved significantly on ...