Hormone therapy controversy raises drug safety issues
...ugs once thought of as almost magic pills to keep women healthy, vital and young shows why it is so impor...ast cancer, dementia, heart attacks and strokes in women taking combination hormone therapy and increased risk of strokes in women taking estrogen alone. Na...Changing chemistry helps explain estrogen threat to the heart
...opical puzzle of how estrogen goes from protecting women from heart disease to apparently increasing their ...h Initiative, a 15-year study of more than 161,000 women by the National Institute of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. This bad news about ...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...general population, and the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the sciences. At Carnegie, for example, Singer introduced "First Light," a project that makes it possible for third, fourth and fifth graders to attend an imaginative Saturday science school. In 1994, Singer further initiated the Ca...Single-donor islet transplantation procedure shows promise for patients with type 1 diabetes
...d from July 2001 to August 2003 and enrolled eight women with type 1 diabetes. During the trial there were no serious, unexpected, or procedure- or immunosuppression-related adverse events. All eight recipients achieved insulin independence and freedom from hypoglycemia. Five remained insulin-independent f...Mothers' exposure to air pollutants linked to chromosome damage in babies
...xamines the health effects of exposure of pregnant women and babies to air pollutants from vehicle exhaust, the commercial burning of fuels, and tobacco smoking, as well as from residential use of pesticides and allergens....Study associates alcohol use patterns with Body Mass Index
... indicate being overweight. "In our study, men and women who drank the smallest quantity of alcohol one drink per drinking day with the greatest frequency three to seven days per week had the lowest BMI's," said first author Rosalind A. Breslow, Ph.D., "while those who infrequently consumed the greates...Breast cancer treatment reduces risk of heart disease
...rotective effects on the heart. Studies have shown women taking tamoxifen show reductions in markers of car...the reduced heart disease effects were observed in women who had completed less than two years of therapy and continued throughout the duration of the five y...Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
...rief intervention for college students, especially women and low-motivation drinkers (those less likely to seek out services through other means). "MSB [showed] significant results for three important subgroups: females, persistent heavy drinkers, and low-motivation drinkers," said Emil Chiauzzi, vice pres...Hypothyroidism associated with reduced breast cancer risk
...Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found that women with a common thyroid gland disorder appear to hav...rol study of 2,226 females, researchers found that women with primary hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid) had a 61 percent lower risk of developing invasiv...Women with thyroid problem have lower risk of breast cancer
According to a new study, women suffering from a common thyroid problem called hyp...one, are less likely to develop breast cancer than women with normal thyroid function. The study, published in the March 15, 2005 issue of CANCER ( http://ww...Cardiology losing out as women 'turned off' by family unfriendly specialty
...art specialists increasingly fear that the lack of women in cardiology, despite growing numbers of female m...hed in the journal Heart, the report suggests that women are being "turned off" cardiology by the long hours, lack of flexible training and part time consult...Bacteria collection sheds light on urinary tract infections
...teria to reach their bladder. Fifty percent of all women will experience at least one episode of UTIs during their lifetime. UTIs are typically treated with antibiotics. The researchers found that the E.coli causing the UTIs matched genetically with a sample of E.coli obtained from an animal source. They...Wine keeps women's hearts beating healthily
...eart health. The Swedish research team studied 102 women under the age of 75, all of whom had survived a he...isk of heart disease and death. HRV was highest in women who drank 5 or more grams of alcohol a day, equivalent to more than half a standard unit, and lowest...Social Security reform proposals raise concerns for older women
...t of minimum benefits. Her goal was to project how women who reach age 62 between 2020 and 2030 would fare ...l status are not as effective at protecting poorer women - as well as a new generation of women that is less likely to be married - than are minimum benefits...Northwestern Memorial Hospital receives $10 million commitment to support preeminent heart program
...inois listed as a center of excellence in treating women with heart disease. "Our patient volumes in cardiology and cardiac procedures have been steadily growing over the past decade, and we have demonstrated particular excellence in cardiac imaging, coronary interventions and stent implantation, and trea...Rutgers College of Nursing faculty member is funded to develop an interactive computer system
...an effort to reduce HIV sexual risk behavior among women in urban communities. Jones, assistant professor a...tate of the science and the wisdom shared by young women and men in focus groups held throughout Newark and Jersey City. CIMIC will program and develop the p...Induction at 32 weeks possible action for expectant moms with premature membrane rupture
...STER, Minn. -- A new Mayo Clinic study of pregnant women who experience early membrane rupture has found in...w induction at 32 weeks gestation is an option for women with prolonged premature membrane rupture and their obstetricians to consider to decrease potential ...International trial of two microbicides begins
...de. "The majority of new cases of HIV infection in women result from heterosexual intercourse, but women may not always be able to insist that their male partners use measures to prevent HIV transmission,"...Falling in love in three minutes or less
..." At each HurryDate party, roughly 25 men and 25 women interact with each other for three minutes at a time. At the end of the session, each participant indicates which of the people he or she met would be of interest for the future. HurryDate also collects survey data from participants, including age,......ts that 80% of the excess deaths in men and 70% in women attributable to HIV were classified as tuberculosis or lower respiratory tract infections. Social stigma associated with HIV/AIDS prevents many from speaking out about the true cause of illness and death among friends and family and leads doctors to...