A shallow hip socket predicts osteoarthritis of the hip
... of the leading causes of disability among elderly men and women. This progressive joint disease involve...lands conducted a long-term study on 835 women and men ages 55 years and older. Their results, published in the March 2005 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism...Orthodontists must brace against back pain
... hour's continuous load on the spine of 450 kg for men and 275 kg for women. Results of the study appear in the February issue of Clinical Biomechanics. The subjects, aged 27 to 36, (the practicing professional was 48) were videotaped performing their regular duties and the recorded postures were analy...Men more likely to get screened for prostate cancer than colon cancer, U-M study finds
...f Michigan Health System study, fewer than half of men surveyed were up-to-date with colon cancer screenings. What men do pay attention to is prostate cancer. And that has researchers thinking an annual prostate cancer ...Gender a factor in who gets bypass surgery
... there were only 59 women recipients for every 100 men who received bypass surgery. Women with comorbid c...icantly more conservative treatment decisions than men with the same conditions. Similarly, women were twice as likely not to receive the surgery as compa...Other highlights in the March 2 JNCI
...ion rate in the sigmoidoscopy groups was higher in men than in women and lower among subjects ages 60 to ...e, and colleagues conducted a casecontrol study of men who had participated in the ATBC Study. They found that men with the highest baseline circulating co...Studies address issues of risk and survival in rapidly increasing GI cancers
...al cancer is three to four times more common among men than women and about 50 percent more common among African Americans than among whites. Because esophageal cancer is usually diagnosed at a late stage, most people with the disease eventually die. According to the American Cancer Society, 14,520 peo...LA BioMed medical/research briefs March 2005
... infertility and females are at a higher risk than men for the extreme manifestations of fatty liver disease such as cirrhosis and liver carcinoma. Omid Khorran M.D., Ph.D. a principal investigator at LA BioMed and Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility at Harbor-UCLA Medical Cen...Study documents initial differences in sexual transmission of HIV between males and females
...ted their female partners. And, women infected by men had a greater number of variants than men infected by women. The selection of HIV-1 during sexual transmission: differences in gp160 diversi...Schepens scientists regenerate optic nerve for the first time
...enter in Washington and met with dozens of service men and women who could benefit directly from the good work of the people at Schepens. Their vital research will not only enhance the lives of our soldiers but also gives hope to every American who suffers from diseases of the central nervous system." M...Contaminated needles not contributing to spread of HIV in Africa
...HIV/STD Prevention Study, which had recruited 1847 men and women aged between 15 and 54 to the three year study. The study collected a range of health and socio-demographic data including self-reported history of STD symptoms and whether the participants had received any medical injections or needle pric...World's biggest study of multi-million pound health problem launched
...tudy, called LIFELAX, aims to recruit nearly 2,000 men and women with constipation aged 55 and over from 57 GP practices, making it the biggest study ever of the condition to date. LIFELAX will focus on the North of England, recruiting from practices in Tyne and Wear, Northumberland, County Durham, Tees...Migraine linked to risky heart health
... father with a history of early heart attack. Both men and women with migraine overall were 1.78 times more likely to have a mother with a history of early heart attack....Physical activity linked to protection from Parkinson's disease
...ard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that men who exercised regularly and vigorously early in th...isk for developing Parkinson's disease compared to men who did not. The findings appear in the February 22, 2005 issue of the journal Neurology. Parkinson'...Slow growth in infancy signals poor economic prospects in adulthood
...pects as an adult, suggests a study of 50 year old men in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Over 4,500 men were studied, all of whom had been born in Helsinki, Finland, between 1934 and 1944. Their heights h...Diabetes a bigger heart disease risk for women than for men
...sk of dying from coronary heart disease (CHD) than men with diabetes, researchers reported today at the S...hort Studies Collaboration, researchers found that men with diabetes had about 90 percent higher risk of dying from CHD as men without diabetes. Women with...Heart attack treatment gap may be closing for women
...ded study showed that women were just as likely as men to be discharged on recommended drugs after acute ...eart disease were not receiving as much therapy as men after heart attack or unstable angina, said Shu-Fen Wung, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing, Uni...'Marital strain' increases women's risk of death, heart disease
...t Disease and Stroke. Researchers also found that men whose wives' come home upset with work outside the...l communication issues). The study included 1,769 men and 1,913 women between ages 18 and 77. Researchers conducted the baseline examinations from 198487...Chlamydia testing in pharmacies: Questions that need addressing
...a, that the incidence of chlamydia infection in UK men rose by around 15% between 2001 and 2002, and that the prevalence of chlamydia in black American women is over 13%. The UK Health Protection Agency has found that in 45 to 64 year old women, rates of chlamydial infection rose by 177% between 1995 and...Brain activity of men and women during hostile or impulsive acts differs less on nicotine
...d significant differences in the brain activity of men and women when engaged in a broad range of activit...e acute during impulsive or hostile acts. But when men and women have nicotine in their bodies, these brain activity differences practically disappear. Amo...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...de effects. More than 1,800 women and heterosexual men were involved in the study, all of whom were newly diagnosed with one or both STDs and claimed at least one untreated partner within the previous 14 days. The study was conducted solely at the University of Washington in Seattle and took place from ...