How often should women get mammograms?
...creening guidelines and financial coverage varying among health systems and insurers sometimes dramatically the model provides quantitative predictions of the mortality benefits, on average, in populations of women over the course of 40 years. "We're not advocating any particular interval for mammograph...Culture-specific exercise sparks interest of older women
... to examine the acceptability of a Tai Chi program among other ethnicities, and also examine health benefits. "We did see that the program was acceptable to this group and appeared to produce some health benefits," she said. "Hopefully, with a larger study we will have more definitive information on the...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...en with prior stroke were on aspirin therapy. And among the 2,230 patients with documented heart attacks, only 54 percent reported using aspirin. "Ideally, the percentage of women with a known history of cardiovascular disease who take aspirin should be above 90. To find such low numbers was quite disco...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...echnologies hide a surprising level of concordance among Americans for using genetic testing to identify ri...s; lowest levels of support (49 percent) are found among fundamentalist and evangelical Christians. Perhaps surprisingly, a majority (52 percent) of those wh...The history and controversy behind post-menopausal hormone therapy
... increase in cardiovascular events and stroke risk among other results leaving the stakeholders in a dilemma. "From a purely business point of view, the most reliable profits [for drug companies] can be made from disease processes and conditions that have high incidence and prevalence," the authors state....'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
...o consider the physical and emotional risk factors among unmarried men....Unemployed women at higher risk for cardiovascular disease
...cardiovascular disease, which was 1.7 times higher among the homemakers than among employed women. Nineteen percent of the homemakers had high blood pressure, identical to employed wo...Advances in Uterine Leiomyoma Research: 2nd NIH International Congress
...ne to foster an exchange of scientific information among members of the uterine leiomyoma (fibroids) research and health care communities. Fibroids are the most common gynecologic neoplasm in women of reproductive age and the leading cause of hysterectomy in the United States. Topics to be covered include ...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...an opportunity to retaliate. The researchers found among all participants, behavioral responses differed by gender, with men retaliating by cranking up the volume in a short blast, while women sustained the noise longer, which one of the researchers referred to as shouting for the men and nagging for the w...Drugs aid weight loss among type 2 diabetes patients
... taking orlistat; sweating, tremors and drowsiness among fluoxetine users; and heart palpitations in some s...eight loss drugs may be useful in treating obesity among type 2 diabetes patients, but also note that "these drugs work best in conjunction with lifestyle st...Impact of scientific advances on drug studies and membrane research to be explored
...n the structure and function of cell membranes, is among the topics to be addressed during the De Lange Con...ium for Membrane Biology a research collaboration among six institutions: Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, University of Houston, University of ...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...3 percent re-infection rate compared to 11 percent among the standard-referral group. Results showed a sim... standard health approaches." Baltimore, Md., has among the nation's highest numbers for STDs. Recent statistics from 2002 show that the city had the third...International gathering of experts to share retinoblastoma breakthroughs
... Retinoblastoma that has spread outside the eye is among the deadliest childhood cancers, with an average s...ol of Medicine, St. Louis) and cooperative studies among institutions (Anna T. Meadows, M.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia)....New European cancer figures for 2004 major efforts needed against the big four killers
...cases (1,534,700) and 56% of deaths (962,600) were among men. The 25 EU countries accounted for 2 million o...gly at women. "There has been substantial progress among men in Europe, but the situation among women and especially young women is cause for concern. Ther...Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...arm the aging woman, why has there been resistance among many physicians and women to changing beliefs and practice patterns?" the researchers ask. They conclude that the conflicting interests of women, physicians and drug companies played a role in the popularity of HT (at one time it was one of the most ...PENN begins clinical trial of newest technology to treat thoracic aortic aneurysms
...rovements in treatment outcomes have been observed among patients treated with endovascular devices as compared with standard open surgery. Current endovascular treatments are marketed worldwide for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms. The major cause of thoracic aortic aneurysms is a hardening of...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...er of the famous 1975 Asilomar conference, and was among five signers of the summary statement of the Asilomar report, which set forth guidelines for recombinant DNA research. By recommending resumption of recombinant DNA research, but under very cautious safeguards, the Asilomar report established a frame...Next generation body scanner launched by the University of Manchester
...ields of cancer, stroke and mental illness will be among the first to benefit from the scanner. By studying patients, they will be able to look at the way brain tumours and cancers grow and develop and how different kinds of treatment might work. It will also help researchers looking into strokes and wi...Studies examine coffee drinking and risk of liver and colorectal cancers
...n the population studied, the rate of liver cancer among those who never drank coffee was 547.2 cases per 100,000 people over 10 years, but among daily coffee drinkers the rate was 214.6 cases per 100,000 people. In addition, the risk of HCC decr...Hepatitis B viral load, genotype affect liver cancer risk, study finds
...nd colleagues conducted a nested casecontrol study among male Taiwanese HBV carriers who had not been diagn...ditively) associated with an increased risk of HCC among Taiwanese men," the authors write. "The longitudinal stability of these factors and their positive a...