June 5, 2007 (Toronto) — Female patients with anorexia nervosa who do not have regular menstrual cycles suffer from decreased levels of androgens, which is exacerbated by the use of oral ...

A Southern California woman who at 5-foot-7 weighed only 40 pounds because of anorexia has made major improvements and was almost unrecognizable Tuesday. Last May, 37-year-old Rachael Farrokh was so ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Low levels of the hormone testosterone in women with anorexia nervosa are associated with anxiety, depression and bone loss, Harvard researchers told attendees of the ...

ScienceDaily (2011-02-13) - Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with prominently different characteristics than women who do not have eating disorders and who are considered of ...

Women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone, according to new research published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology. Previous ...

CHICAGO - Prozac is often used to treat anorexia, but researchers found it didn't stop young women from resuming their self-starving ways. In a small study, more than half of the women who got Prozac ...

A woman once given two weeks to live due to severe anorexia has turned her life around to become a doctor. Sarah Zurub, 30, from Coventry in the West Midlands, was diagnosed at 14 and spent her ...

If anorexics and bulimics can be thought of as dieting junkies, the best treatment may be a drug that is usually given to addicts. A Detroit scientist tested naltrexone, the drug of choice for kicking ...

Three years ago, she was a 23-year-old woman who had moved to a new place where no one knew that she had battled her eating disorder since the age of 10 or that she had been hospitalized more than a ...