Health Bulletin

Exercise crucial for women's heart health after 30
Staying physically active is far more likely to determine a woman's future risk of heart disease than any other well-known factor, including smoking, obesity and high blood pressure, a new study published in British Journal of Sports Medicine reports.
The researchers concluded that from age 30 until the late 80s, low physical activity levels were responsible for higher levels of heart disease risk than any other risk factor. Remaining inactive raised women's risk of heart disease an average of 33 percent for middle-aged women and 24 percent for older women, they determined.

Older infertile couples should try In Vitro Fertilisation first
Middle-aged couples who want to have a baby but are having trouble conceiving should go straight to in vitro fertilisation (IVF), skipping other types of fertility treatment, a new clinical trial study published in Fertility and Sterility recommends.
Researchers found that women aged 38 and older were more than twice as likely to become pregnant through IVF within their first two cycles of treatment than if they used oral or injectable fertility drugs. They also were twice as likely to have a successful birth from that pregnancy.