New non-hormonal hot flash treatment set for clinical trial
...preparing to conduct a 12-week study involving 100 women with hot flashes. Half the women will get the active treatment in capsule form, and half will receive an inactive capsule. Participan......intervals can be extended to every 2 to 3 years in women over age 30 with more than 3 prior normal test results and that most elderly women can cease screening. But are woman willing to forego their annual test? In a study published in the ...... living alone than ever before, with more men than women living on their own between the ages of 25 and 44....more likely to change to a lone existence, whereas women tend to live as one-parent households. For women, the transition to solo living comes mostly in the...Researchers discover genetic variant that may explain why women develop M.S. more than men
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Why do women develop multiple sclerosis (MS) almost twice as of...ng who gets MS and who doesn't, and especially why women develop MS more often than men," explains the study's lead author, Mayo Clinic neurologist Brian Wei...How the stories of ordinary people could give them more say over planning decisions
Stories in their own words from men and women directly caught up in debates and controversies over threats from technologies to themselves and their environment are to be recorded and analysed in new research sponsored by the ESRC. This new approach, which pays much more attention to how ordina...Risk and intimate relationships: Can hope triumph over experience in an age of 'messy' lives?
...en men and women. "The contributions that men and women make to families in the form of earnings and unpaid care work are in flux, and the meaning of marriage and partnership has changed. "We are now in a world where two incomes are usually necessary to meet household expenditure - particularly in the UK...Study reports women don't experience undue pain, anxiety during mammography screening
BOSTON The assumption that women avoid mammograms for fear of pain is challenged in...erican Journal of Roentgenology , which finds that women undergoing screening mammography report minimal levels of distress. "I think it's an old wives tale ...The Larry King Cardiac Foundation presents 'The Changing Face of Heart Disease' on Feb. 2
...2005 Research to Watch: why it's important to men, women and the doctors who treat them WHEN: 10 a.m. Noon Wednesday, February 2, 2005 WHERE: The W New York Times Square Hotel 1567 Broadway at 47th Street New York, New York Telephone: (212) 930-7400 SPEAKERS:* Dr. Martin Leon Chairman, Cardiovas...Clinical trial of Etanercept for Wegener's disease shows no benefit
...can affect people of any age and occurs in men and women with equal frequency. Although current medications used to treat Wegener's halt the disease temporarily in most patients, 60 to 80 percent of patients eventually suffer from disease flares. The need to treat many patients repeatedly with medications...Obesity and weight gain increase risk for kidney stones
...s than 150 lb. For these weight categories, older women had a 89 percent increased risk; younger women, a ...ht did not change. With similar weight gain, older women had a 70 percent higher risk for the development of kidney stones; younger women, an 82 percent incr...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...njury. Consuming two or three alcoholic drinks for women or two to four for men caused about 4 percent of a...IONS OF FUTURE RISK? In a qualitative study of 22 women over the age of 40 who had experienced an osteoporotic fracture in the previous year, researchers fo...Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
... The researchers did not find the same results for women in the survey. Thorburn conducted the study with Laura M. Bogart, a researcher with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif. They said their results suggest that conspiracy beliefs may have a negative impact on HIV preventive practices. Researc...Study says 43% of US adults at risk of heart disease are not utilizing aspirin therapy
...ound that aspirin is underutilized by both men and women aged 40 and over who are at increased risk for hea...of American women1, only 36% of the increased-risk women surveyed selected heart attack as the health condition they personally feared most behind Alzheimer'...Calcium boost to youths' bones could reduce osteoporosis risk
... spine and wrist. An estimated 30 million American women either have or are at risk for osteoporosis. Though the risk of losing bone mass is part of aging, having the strongest skeleton possible as a youngster can tip the balance toward better bone health in later years, Matkovic said. The study also sugge...A global treatment for iron deficiency
...isadvantaged infants, young children, and pregnant women worldwide, so that they can meet their genetic potential for growth, health and development." ...NIAID begins enrolling volunteers for novel HIV vaccine study
...ganizers are seeking healthy, HIV-negative men and women volunteers between the ages of 18 and 45 who are at an increased risk of acquiring HIV. The researchers plan to enroll a significant number of volunteers from populations particularly hard-hit by AIDS, including African Americans and other ethnic min...Vaginal hysterectomy leads to better outcomes than abdominal surgery
...versity of Auckland in New Zealand and colleagues, women who had vaginal hysterectomies had fewer infection...ly performed surgery, after caesarean section, for women of reproductive age. About 600,000 hysterectomies are performed each year in the United States. More...Annual mammogram, doctor visits are enough for breast cancer follow-up
... doctor visits are the best follow-up strategy for women who have been treated for early stage breast cance... new cancers or quality of life between a group of women who got regular physical exams and annual mammograms and a group who underwent a more extensive batt...Moderate alcohol intake may reduce risk of dementia in older women
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Older women who drink a moderate amount of alcohol each day ma...edical Center and colleagues. "In our study, older women who drank moderate amounts of alcohol tended to perform better on tests for cognitive function and d...Common antidepressants lower effects of tamoxifen in many women
..., the researchers examined the effects of SSRIs in women who were prescribed tamoxifen to treat the common ...ession and hot flashes. More than a fourth of the women enrolled in this study were prescribed SSRIs. The study showed that the various SSRIs taken by the w...