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... 39 years old.The study found that neither age nor gender are factors in whether people tooktheir medication or followed providers' instructions. Drug use isn't a factoreither, the study found. Those findings, Holzemer said, are key to eliminating biases among health careworkers who believe that particular ...... The researchers also plan to examine the role of gender since thedisease affects more males than females. In addition, they also hope todetermine the exact mechanisms that underlie the abnormality revealed in thestudy. Ernst is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, an organization ofmore than...Heart Valve Abnormalities Examined In Relation To Duration Of Diet Drug Use
...d, prospective clinical trial, and that there were gender and racialdifferences between the group that used drugs and the group that didn't. Forexample, there were more white women in the treated group compared to thecontrol group. "It's the best study that can be done given the nature of theissue," he sai...Health And Wealth: Women Are DifferentOr Are They?
...2 to 1991, focusing on the death-riskinfluences of gender differences in the workplace and household, in inc...ventional view fails to consider the ways in which gender is afundamental element of socioeconomic status, the scientists say. It doesn'ttake into account th...News Tips Friday, March 26, 1999
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...menwake up after anesthesia is withdrawn, and that gender effect is both unexpectedand strong," said Duke an...to keepthem asleep." "No one ever thought gender would be a variable in deliveringanesthetics to patients, but we now need to consider adding a patie......escent female athletes. "Research is showing that gender is an important consideration in designingprograms to prevent drug abuse and to treat addiction," said Alan I. Leshner,Ph.D., director of the NIDA. "It's hoped that the ATHENA study will help usdevelop effective programs for teenage girls." "We think...Cocaine triggers heart attacks within one hour
... "We'd like to learn moreabout the difference that gender and frequency of use may make incocaine-associated risk." The researchers plan a similar study to examine the relationship between strokeand cocaine. "Studying the mechanisms by which cocaine triggers heart attack may provideinsights into how other f...Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
...or equal treatment on the basis ofrace, ethnicity, gender and age. In the new experiments, Dasgupta and Greenwald measured unconsciousattitudes with the IAT after exposing college students to pictures anddescriptions of famous and infamous Americans. All participants in the testswere white or A...Brain region used in face recognition is active in new object recognition
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... study, "so we revised the questionnaire tomake it gender neutral." The revised survey asked the students - 165 men and 131 women - abouttheir sexual experiences over the previous year. The students were primarilyfreshmen and sophomores and were largely white (82 percent) or Asian (13percent). ...More than half of homeless children have symptoms of depression
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