Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
.... However, more than 1.6 million people, primarily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide ...will cause about 10 million premature deaths among women and children in Africa. By 2050, according to the report, smoke from cooking fires will release abou...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...the world. More than 1.6 million people, primarily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide ...will cause about 10 million premature deaths among women and children by 2030 in Africa and release about 7 billion tons of carbon in the form of greenhouse ...Sexual lifestyles vary among ethnic groups in Britain
...Attitudes and Lifestyles, involving 12,110 men and women aged 16-44 years resident in Great Britain, to inv...n and women. Overall, Indian and Pakistani men and women reported fewer sexual partnerships, later first intercourse, and substantially lower prevalence of d...Late developers may run higher risk of infection than sexually mature younger teens
...critical factor. The researchers studied 127 young women from three sexual health clinics. All of them had ... years or were aged 17 years and under. The young women were screened for genital infections, including chlamydia, wart virus (human papillomavirus or HPV),...International breast cancer prevention study launches in the United States and Canada
...estane and its ability to prevent breast cancer in women who are at increased risk for the disease. Exemes... types of breast cancer. Exemestane could provide women with an alternative option to tamoxifen, the only drug FDA approved for prevention of breast cancer....Hausman to give keynote address at 'Breastfeeding, Motherhood and Feminism' symposium
...and Feminism," that will bring together a panel of women who are mothers, feminist scholars, practitioners,...employment patterns in recent decades have brought women many new opportunities. But along with these gains come challenges, including the well-documented wo...Do minorities survive hospitalization better than others?
...be lower for women, and the survival advantage for women was even greater after DNR status was included in the models. Failure to capture DNR in the model could misrepresent the component of outcome that is due to disparities in the delivery of medical care. Furthermore, DNR may be a confounder in other st...Unexpected benefit seen in treating HER-2 breast cancer with new preoperative drug combo
...nd pleased that we may have a better treatment for women with HER-2 breast cancer." They also found that it did not matter whether the patients' tumors were estrogen-receptor positive or negative - a distinction that usually demarcates which patients will respond to hormonal therapy. And, to date, no cases...Protecting children from industrial chemicals in the environment
...d regulations are inadequate to safeguard pregnant women and children," they say. "Until a formal regulato... and existing chemicals that are toxic to pregnant women and children, we are left to await the next epidemic to warn us about an environmental disaster. Un...Raw food vegetarians have low bone mass
...y not apply. "For example, post-menopausal, frail women with osetoporosis have low bone mass and an increased risk of fracture," he says. "But they also have increased circulating levels of inflammatory molecules called cyotkines. That's a different biologic condition from what we are seeing in the raw fo...Fat may promote inflammation, new study suggests
...he proteins. The study included 20 post-menopausal women from 50 to 70 years old who were overweight or obe...ed with an increased ability to use glucose. Eight women who were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome and had multiple risk factors for heart disease had lev...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
... the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in the United States, killing more people than breast, prostate and colon cancers combined, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). ACS estimates that in 2005 there will be approximately 172,570 new cases of lung cancer diagnosed in the Unite...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
... understood and in turn, to become treatable. More women in the UK now die of liver failure than do of canc...f cirrhosis since 1970 and a threefold increase in women of the same age group. Liver failure is also rapidly increasing in younger people with the deaths in...NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
Pregnant women with high levels of an oral bacterium associated w...rial samples of 297 predominantly African-American women in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Dasanayake's team examined the effect of cariogenic and other bacteria o...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
... the National Institutes of Health found that many women move through the menopausal transition with few di...use not be viewed as a disease. The tendency among women and their healthcare providers in the U.S. to medicalize menopause concerned the panel because the t...Oral bacteria may predict pregnancy outcomes
...rs evaluated bacterial levels in the saliva of 297 women in their third trimester of pregnancy. They found that a higher salivary level of the bacteria called Actinomyces naeslundii Genospecies2 (A. naeslundii gsp2) is associated with low birth weight and preterm delivery, while higher levels of the bacter...Understanding how vulnerabilities may keep women in abusive relationships
...s. Using self-reflection, i.e. narrative therapy, women may find the origins of, their susceptibility to, ...m interviews with seven Black and twenty-one White women who suffered chronic abuse by male dating partners. "Rather than victim-blaming, studying women's v...Three-year cervical cancer screening recommendations may be applicable for certain women with HIV
... interval of 3 years between screenings in healthy women 30 years or older who have normal cytology (cells)...A. The recommended interval is 6 to 12 months for women with normal cytology and detectable oncogenic HPV." Women who are HIV-positive are recommended to h...Abuse and HIV status linked to suicide risk
...lationship compounds suicide risk for HIV-positive women in particular. This latest study is published in t...t suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for women ages 15-44, there is a need for further research on risk and opportunities for prevention," said And...Study finds majority of women willing to accept cervical cancer vaccine for self and children
...up of physicians has found that a vast majority of women would be willing to take a cervical cancer vaccine... sexual contact. Results showed that 76 percent of women surveyed would be willing to accept a cervical cancer vaccine for themselves. Sixty-seven percent o...