Hazards: More Transfusions Mean More Risk for Women
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Women are more likely than men to die after heart surgery, and one reason may be the use of a common medical procedure: blood transfusions.
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NEW YORK  - Women who use a contraceptive patch appear to be more than twice as likely to develop a dangerous blood clot in their veins as those who use an oral contraceptive, new research shows.
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Older patients whose red blood cell counts are even slightly out of the normal range are at higher risk of death and heart problems after major surgery, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Estrogen-progestin pills double postmenopausal women&#39;s chances of developing dangerous blood clots, and the risk is even higher for overweight patients and those over 60, researchers say.
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WASHINGTON  New warnings on anemia drugs  Federal health officials issued stern new warnings Friday for doctors to more carefully prescribe widely used anemia drugs that can increase the risk of death and other serious problems in patients with cancer and kidney disease.
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Proportion of breast cancer patients who undergo unnecessary double mastectomies increases.
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Some allergic conditions may increase the risk of developing blood cancer as an adult, research suggests.
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The risk of death to newborns delivered by voluntary Caesarean section is much higher than previously believed, a new study indicates.
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Some women with factor XI  deficiency, a genetic disorder, have an excessive risk of  bleeding after childbirth, UK researchers report in the current  issue of BJOG.
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New research has found a higher risk of leukemia among older overweight women, offering another piece of evidence that carrying extra pounds can increase your chance of getting cancer.
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Women who have a baby aged 40 or over are at an increased risk of stillbirth, US researchers have warned.
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Women with congenital heart  disease who become pregnant face a heightened risk that their  infant may be premature or not survive long, according to a  report from the Netherlands.
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Researchers are discovering that major illnesses like heart disease and lung cancer are influenced by gender and that perhaps treatments for women ought to be slightly different than for men.
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Babies born by caesarean are nearly three times more likely to die in the first month than those born naturally, research shows.
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Women who gain weight between   pregnancies raise their risk of suffering from complications   such as high blood pressure, diabetes and stillbirth,   researchers said on Friday.
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Chronic stress may take a bigger toll on a woman's immune system than divorce or job loss, a new study suggests.
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Women were warned Wednesday that their risk of blood clots in the legs and lungs may be higher if they use the birth-control patch instead of the pill.