Religion guides views of fertility treatment in Middle East
...child is not born out of wedlock. However, since a married Shi'ite Muslim woman cannot marry another man sper...n to adultery. Middle Eastern societies expect all married couples to produce biological children, since legal adoption as it is practiced in the West is prohi...Number of children linked to obesity for mom and dad
...y from the baseline survey completed in 1992. Only married respondents and spouses between the ages of 40 and 70 with children were included in the analysis, which included a total of 9,046 men and women (4,523 couples). Single or divorced individuals with children were excluded in the analysis. The number o...Postmenopausal hormone therapy associated with increased risk for developing asthma
...m the Nurse's Health Study, which enrolled 121,700 married female registered nurses, aged 30 to 55 years old in 1976. Participants were mailed questionnaires biennially (once every two years) which included questions about medical history, diet and lifestyle, exercise, and hormone use. From 1988 to 1996, b...How couples manage parenting forecasts later marital quality, study finds
COLUMBUS, Ohio Just because a married couple has a good relationship when a child is born is no guarantee the marriage will stay that way as their child grows older, a new study suggests. Researchers found that how a couple manages their parenting responsibilities when their child is 6 m...March/April 2004 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...t be most effective when implemented with live-in, married and equivalent-to-married partners. Powerlessness, Control, and Complexity: The Experience of Family Physicians in a Group Model HMO By Linda Gask, M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D., F.R.C.Psych. Family physicians working in a group model health maintenance organ...Unmarried women say they feel misunderstood in doctors' offices
... of 40 and 75 in this country are less likely than married women to obtain regular screening tests for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer. With the aging baby boomer population, the size of that population promises to grow significantly in the coming years. Some women think that they are not at risk for ...New hereditary gene linked to Parkinson's disease
...o Italian and one Spanish family where cousins had married and produced offspring. Following earlier work tracing the chromosome location of the gene responsible for this form of familial Parkinson's disease, researchers were able to pinpoint mutations in the gene of the affected families. The mutations in P...Multiple factors affect psoriasis treatment compliance
...le people, adherence was 44.2 percent (n=104), for married persons it was 78.2 percent (n=97), for employed people, it was 68.9 percent (n=134), and for unemployed people, it was 43.9 percent (n=67). The average medication adherence for people who paid for their medication was 45.5 percent (n=102), and for ...Emory study finds mental health and heart disease tightly linked
...on decreased, and the risk was higher among males, married adults and unemployed adults. Keyes is lead editor of "Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well-Lived," published in 2002 by the American Psychological Association, and is co-editor of "Well-Being: Positive Development Throughout the Life ...Women who early in life care for elderly parents are at higher risk of poverty later
...more likely to rely on SSI in later life than were married women. The predicted probability of living in poverty for non-white caregivers was 29 percent, compared to only nine percent for white caregivers. In a previous study, Donato and Wakabayashi analyzed the substantial reduction in weekly hours work...Racial differences, poverty linked to mammography use
...nsurance, higher incomes, more education and to be married or living with a partner than the minority women. White women, more frequently than the others, mentioned that finding the time to be screened was a major problem. Paskett says the study sheds new light on the behavior of Native American women, an i...News tips for Sunday, November 7, 2004
...ent in men. In a separate look at marital status, married men were 5 percent less likely to be hypertensive, and they were more likely to have lower systolic pressures, cholesterol levels and body mass indices. Married women also had significantly lower cholesterol and body mass index. This "supports the ...'Sit-down' rounds improve outcomes for kidney dialysis patients
...ics with more frequent sit-down rounds were white, married or high school graduates. In addition, there was evidence that larger clinics were more likely to have less frequent or no rounds. Frequency of walk-rounds by a nephrologist did not differ by the frequency of sit-down rounds. "Sit-down rounds do re...Drinking and spousal abuse by male US Army soldiers
...orporated. "However, it is important to note that married men and women are about equally likely to initiate physical abuse against each other. In fact, male victims of abuse may find it more difficult than female victims to come forward to report their experience due to social stigmatization or shame." Be...2001-2002 survey finds that many recover from alcoholism
...e and was higher among women, individuals who were married or cohabiting, individuals with an onset of depend...ver time and was higher among individuals who were married or cohabiting, those with a family history of alcoholism and persons who had experienced fewer sympt...Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
...hat does stand out is that youth whose parents are married are less likely to commit violence, suggesting the...American youth to three protective factors: having married parents, living in neighborhoods with a high concentration of immigrants and their own first- or sec...Elderly people cared for by spouse are at greater risk for abuse, Pitt researchers find
...Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , being married to one's caregiver could be a prescription for abu...stern Medical Center found that caregivers who are married to those they care for--particularly those caregivers who are more cognitively impaired, in poorer h...Social Security reform proposals raise concerns for older women
... new generation of women that is less likely to be married - than are minimum benefits where eligibility is tied to U.S. residency or simple Social Security eligibility. The research was supported in part by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College pursuant to a grant from the U.S. Social Securi...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
... recipient of numerous honorary degrees, Singer is married to Daniel Morris Singer, with whom she has four grown children. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science ( www.sciencemag.org ). AAAS was...'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
...these participants, 1,493 men and 1,501 women were married or "living in a marital situation." The researche...of total and high-density (or "good") cholesterol, married men were about half as likely to die compared to unmarried men. On the other hand, marital status a...