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New Report Defines 'Normal' Menstruation Cycle
-- Nov. 26, 2006 --
A new clinical report, "Menstruation in Adolescents: Using the Menstrual Cycle as a Vital Sign," aims to help clinicians educate adolescents and their parents about what to expect of a first period, including average cycle length and timing of subsequent periods.

Blauvelt doctor receives $59,000 grant for menopause research
-- Nov. 07, 2006 --
BLAUVELT - A medical researcher from Rockland has been awarded a grant to continue her work of trying to understand the role that a region of the brain plays in women undergoing menopause.

Stanford researchers go online to fight eating disorders
-- Nov. 06, 2006 --
THE PROGRAMS have catchy names like "Food, Mood and Attitude" and "Full of Ourselves" and an ambitious goal: Prevent adolescent eating disorders, which tend to be chronic, hard to treat and sometimes fatal.