New broccoli compound appears promising against breast cancer
...ferent mechanism from oxomate's. Tamoxifen helps a woman who has estrogen-dependent tumors, but may not help those with non-estrogen-dependent tumors, says Kosmeder. A drug based on oxomate would help prevent cancer formation regardless of whether the tumor is estrogen-dependent or non-estrogen-dependent, ...Pregnancy hormone induces healthy blood vessels, Magee-Womens Research Institute scientists report
...iversity of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "When a woman becomes pregnant, relaxin rapidly increases in the blood. Changes in the renal circulation are nearly at their highest by the end of the first trimester of pregnancy." Experiments have shown relaxin to be "a potent renal vasodilator even in male rat...Men are faster than women. but does that mean bets should always be placed on colts?
...he men's record for the mile is 3:43.13; a Russian woman holds the corresponding record for women at 4:12.5...ld events realize that although a given individual woman may be faster than a given individual man, this gender difference is apparent at levels from amateur...Hormone replacement therapy may improve breast cancer detection and survival rate
...e, stroke and breast cancer among patients. "Every woman should talk to her physician about her own risks and benefits of taking hormones," said Pommier. "But this data needs to be taken into consideration as well. If we know that HRT can improve survival rates by producing a less aggressive breast cancer,...New role of genes in breast cancer
...nvolved with breast density, and for an individual woman it will be the combined effect of these genes, rather than a single mutation in just one "high-risk" gene like BRCA1 or BRCA2, that determines her risk," he says. Finding the breast density genes and identifying their mechanisms will help understand ...US researchers find endometriosis associated with wide range of diseases
...opulation, and 12% had asthma compared to 5%. If a woman had endometriosis plus an endocrine disease the figure rose to 72% and it was 88% if she had endometriosis plus fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. * Two-thirds of the survey subjects reported that relatives also had either diagnosed or suspec...OSU studies breast cancer risk and beef consumption
...studies suggest that the more unopposed estrogen a woman is exposed to over her lifetime, the greater her chances of developing breast cancer," says Lin. Lin says the key question is, does long-term, low-level exposure to zeranol add to that risk, or not?"We have examined the impact of zeranol on the bre...Moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy is risky too
...t produce birth defects." In general, a 120-pound woman could achieve a 30 mg/dL BAC after consuming two drinks during an hour and a half. "Most of the effects of fetal alcohol exposure reported in the literature occur primarily at BACs ranging from about 120 to 350 mg/dL," he said. "Our study's finding...Genetic clash doubles schizophrenia risk
...n is called Rhesus D factor (RHD). When a pregnant woman is Rh-negative and her fetus is Rh-positive, her immune system can attack the child's red blood cells. This deprives the brain of oxygen and can cause jaundice. "In heavy doses, oxygen deprivation and jaundice can cause serious brain damage," said Pa...IFDC innovative technology increases farmers' agricultural productivity, maintains resource base
...benefited from this technology is Edah Kehinnou, a woman farmer from the small village of Ahohoue, Benin. Kehinnou grows crops of maize, cowpeas, and groundnuts on her three fields. The ISFM package that she uses includes phosphate rock, legumes (cowpeas or groundnut) and other fertilizers. On her farm ...Scientists discover what makes human embryo attach to uterus
... patent for the use of L-selectin to diagnose if a woman is capable of becoming pregnant and to pinpoint causes of infertility. Fisher and her colleagues discovered that when the time is right for implantation, the outer cells of the early embryo, or blastocyst, express a protein known as L-selectin while ...Suppressing immune system reverses otherwise untreatable case of blood disease
...ab and cyclophosphamide, appears to have cured one woman of an otherwise untreatable case of the blood dise...sive plasmapheresis, the team gave one 42-year-old woman with severe TTP two drugs rituximab and cyclophosphamide, both known anti-cancer drugs. Her symptom...Essay on genes and behavior prompts culture clash in academic journal
... of Ellis: ''The ways in which a particular man or woman makes decisions about sexual attractiveness, marital fidelity and other matters that define patterns of mate choice depend on interactions between his or her neural circuitry and the various opportunities for mating available in the environment. That...Virginia Tech professor Marjorie Grene is the first woman in The Library of Living Philosophers
...a Tech philosopher Marjorie Grene became the first woman to join the ranks of such great philosophers as Al...y to underestimate the difficulties she faced as a woman in the middle portion of the twentieth century in gaining the professional positions and recognition...Drinking water can help your diet
...s of water you should drink a day. So a 100- pound woman needs to drink 50 ounces of water each day -- just a little more than four 12-ounce glasses, or three bottles of water (which usually are 500 milliliters or 16.9 ounces.) A 175-pound man would need five bottles of water. "I think many people would ......n pathway to success was inspired by his mother, a woman with an ambitious spirit, and his late father, a talented man who struggled with schizophrenia and periodic homelessness while Erich was a child in New York City's Harlem community. His father's eclectic interests and appreciation for the natural wor...Pain and the brain: Sex, hormones & genetics affect brain's pain control system
...e sure results were as consistent as possible from woman to woman. None of the women in the study was taking hormonal birth control, and all had ovulated the previous month. For their latest pilot study, the team scanned healthy women once during their early follicular phase, and again during that same pha...Testosterone levels and marriage: High is not all bad
...tosterone man newly married to a high-testosterone woman might seem destined to be henpecked but a Penn Sta...ocial support providers to their husbands when the woman had higher testosterone (relative to other women) and the man had lower testosterone (relative to ot...Sarah Billington and Alexandria Boehm named Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professors
...t, journalist, U.S. ambassador to Italy, the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut and generally a trailblazer, who was married to publisher Henry Luce. The program encourages young women to achieve distinction in the fields of science, engineering and mathematics where traditionally there have ...Italian research reveals a new twist in the battle of the sexes
...ate of very early miscarriage among boys (before a woman even knows she is pregnant). Sperm concentration may vary according to the seasons and we can't exclude the possibility that the composition of Y sperm versus X is influenced by the seasons. It's also possible that sex may be influenced by the format...