HHS awards $10.4 million to fight AIDS on three continents
...vir on levels of HIV shed in genital secretions of men and women who are HIV-positive and who also have active HSV-2 lesions. This will help clinicians better understand how active genital herpes infection influences HIV infectivity. HIV Research Program in Thailand and Cambodia Awarded to: Thai Red...Study emphasizes importance of women in cardiac research
... overall benefit from the ICD was observed (45% in men and 53% in women) with no significant influence re...ular disease is the leading cause of death in both men and women, this also emphasizes the importance of ensuring that women have access to the ICD, in add...Researchers show the BEST way to reduce osteoporosis risk
... National Osteoporosis Foundation, urges women and men to take action. "There are 44 million Americans with osteoporosis or low bone mass and this number will only increase if we do not take action. By taking simple steps including eating a balanced diet with plenty of calcium and Vitamin D, and engaging...Tide of new nurses rises but shortages still loom large
...ave of two-year program graduates." The number of men entering workforce has also been growing at a steady rate over the past two decades, increasing from 5 percent in 1983 with about 60,000 R.N.'s in the workforce, to nearly 9 percent, or 160,000 in 2003. "Both of these groups are probably responding ......studies, we looked at the eating patterns of 7,500 men and women who constituted a representative sample of American adults. In the other study, 101 obese women were counseled to increase their intake of water-rich foods and to select reduced-fat foods rather than full-fat ones. In both cases eating mo...Chemoprevention backgrounder: Working for a future of cancer chemoprevention
...dy of selenium and vitamin E supplements in 32,400 men across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Known as SELECT (the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial), the trial is based on observations from two previous studies that failed, but which offered a new direction, says Lippman, the nat...Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection differs for men and women
...ection in women differs substantially from that in men who have sex with men, according to a new study pu...apillomavirus (HPV) infection in all age groups of men who have sex with men. This finding contrasts with the age-related prevalence of cervical HPV infect...NIH launches new study to compare prostate surgery and drugs
... they typically are done with local anesthesia and men go home the same day, whereas TURP requires genera... of BPH in a significant percentage of symptomatic men and it helps men at high risk avoid surgery. "It's easy to see why drug therapy, TUNA and TUMT ha...Sexual quality of life lower for the obese
...y significantly impairs sexual quality of life for men and women, Duke University Medical Center research... Overall, women experienced more difficulties than men among both weight groups, but the gender differences were small compared to the disparity between th...Alcoholics can have deficits in visuoperception and frontal executive function despite sobriety
...ask in 51 recently detoxified nonamnesic alcoholic men (ages 29 to 66 years) compared with 63 "normal," control men (ages 21 to 70 years). Executive function and explicit declarative memory were also assessed. "The ...Very low-carbohydrate diets work for men and upper body fat
...h Beach Diets, may actually be the best option for men who want to slim. New research, published this wee...al, Nutrition & Metabolism, shows that over 70% of men lost more weight and fat on a low carbohydrate diet, despite eating more calories. Jeff Volek and co...Common antidepressant may affect youth's bone development
...hip in elderly women, decreased bone density among men and decreased skeletal growth in children. It is estimated that as many as 10 percent of children and adolescents suffer from depression. "Bone development early in life is believed to determine lifelong skeletal health," said Dr. Warden. ...HPV vaccine shown effective at reducing cancer-causing infections
...h it's likely the vaccine will one day be given to men as well," Dr. Ferris says of the bivalent vaccine ...time risk for HPV infection is about 80 percent in men and women, he says. About 13,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year in the United St...Crohn's disease treatment shows promise in clinical trial
...s, M.D., of NIAID led the study, which enrolled 79 men and women with Crohn's disease. Most study volunteers were randomly assigned to groups where they were injected with either low- or high-dose antibody treatments on one of two possible dosing schedules. The remaining sixteen volunteers received place...American ethnic groups less likely to have cholesterol controlled
...those who met the recommendation for drug therapy, men were 30 percent less likely than women to have their cholesterol under control. Only 330 (55.9 percent) of the 590 individuals appropriately treated for high cholesterol had their cholesterol under control. Almost half did not reach their goal. ...Senior citizens at risk for pneumonia
...Jackson added. The researchers also concluded that men are more prone to pneumonia than women. Besides gender, other factors that put people at increased risk for CAP include smoking, heart and lung problems, diabetes, dementia and taking the medication prednisone. The researchers estimated that one in 2...DHEA may help decrease abdominal fat in elderly persons
...d play a role in reducing abdominal fat in elderly men and women with age-related decreases in DHEA level... abdominal fat (below the skin surface) in elderly men and women. "The decrease in visceral fat relative to initial values averaged 10.2 percent in the wom...Women with arrhythmias may also benefit from an ICD
...he researchers tried to recruit an equal number of men and women, but only about 29 percent of patients i...rdiac causes. Women were more often non-white than men (42 percent vs. 29 percent), but no significant differences existed in age, heart failure class or l...News tips for Tuesday, November 9, 2004
... Testosterone boosts blood flow to heart muscle in men with CAD. British doctors report positive result... from experimental testosterone supplementation in men with coronary artery disease (CAD). Twenty-two men (average age 57) with known CAD were randomized ...Asymptomatic cardiovascular changes are powerful predictor of future heart disease
...l Institutes of Health. "Now we can identify older men and women who don't have any clinical disease or o...r changes the highest risk noted. Black and white men were found to be nearly two times as likely to have clinical disease after 10 years if evidence of d...