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Australian Patients Who Received Vitamin Injection Infected With Hepatitis C

...ge, including cirrhosis and liver failure. Three women who received vitamin injections were detected in March to have contracted the highly infectious disease. A subsequent investigation of 160 patients revealed two others infected. The NSW Health has written to the Therapeutic Goods Administration ...

A New Therapy to Protect Cancer Patients Against Infertility

...mising new therapy for protecting the fertility of women with cancer and auto-immune diseases such as lupu...sts were likely to be able to protect the ovary in women receiving potentially toxic doses of chemotherapy. We are now hoping to carry out a randomised contr...

Womens Mood Plays a Key Role in Infertility Treatment

...yo (single embryo transfer, or SET). However, many women resist SET because they either favour a multiple p...nd provides a total score of overall distress. The women also completed a Fertility Problem Inventory (FPI), that assesses and measures infertility-specific ...

Women are the Real Bosses at Home

A new study has found that women are the real bosses at home . According to Iowa ... least suggests that the marriage is a place where women can exert some power. Whether or not it's because of changing societal roles, we don't know. But the...

A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life

...of second-degree murder on May 29, after the eight women and four men deliberated for less than four hours. During the sentencing, Judge Ted Minden focused on the brutality of the crime and said he didn't believe Sylvester's claim that he was provoked into an attack by a comment Ross made. Knowing R...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

...the US, as it could have serious ramifications for women with abnormal smears. The Irish system is plagu.... It found that 84.3 per cent of smears taken from women between 25 and 40 years of age produced a normal result. Significantly, the report concluded th...

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

...estimation, the research team estimate that 34% of women and 73% of men aged 64-75 would be at high risk compared with 24% and 86% according to the Framingham equation. QRISK would also identify a different group of patients than the Framingham equation, with one in ten patients being reclassified into h...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

... HPV is said to infect half of all sexually active women between 18 and 22. In most women, HPV clears up ...ctly to cervical cancer, one of the top killers of women around the world. By most estimates as many as 250,000 women, most of them in less-developed coun...

Discourage Less Educated Women from Conceiving , Says New Zealand Academic

...ly called for measures to discourage the educated women from conceiving and encouraging the educated to gi...out of last year's census shows that less educated women are the powerhouse behind the country's birth rate. "They are the anchor of our fertility rate at th...

Indian and Pakistani-origin Scots More Likely to Suffer Heart Attacks

... higher incidence of heart attack, and South Asian women an 80 percent higher chance in compariosn to the rest of the population. The higher survival rate might be due to Asian communities preference for living in the inner cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, potentially enabling them to get to hospitals qu...

Liver Cancer More Prevalent in Males

...he higher incidence of liver cancer in men than in women , researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have determined in mouse studies. Their discovery that female mice produce far less of the protein called interleukin-6 (IL-6) in response to liver injury than mal...

Africa's Men Urged to Step Up AIDS Fight

... organising men as activists," she said. Several women living with the virus told the conference of their...demic, said gender equality and the empowerment of women are key to slowing the spread of the killer virus. Mlambo-Ngcuka said the empowerment of women was...

Combination of Tratuzumab and Chemotherapy Yields Better Results for Breast Cancer

...trastuzumab and chemotherapy improves survival in women with operable HER-2 positive breast cancer. At t...ta-analysis of 5 trials involving more than 13,000 women whose breast cancer was amenable to surgery. All the trials compared disease-free survival, overal...

British Woman Who Has inherited Breast Cancer Wants to Spread Awareness

...amily has died of breast cancer," she says. "The women in my family haven't lived long enough to see thei...he gene on. He had children with several different women and the majority of his female offspring developed breast cancer. Martin Ledwick, a cancer informa...

The Chattier Gender

...rs at The University of Texas at Austin have found women and men both use an average of 16,000 words each d... more than a decade, researchers have claimed that women use far more words each day than men. One set of numbers that is commonly tossed around is that wome...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...estimation, the research team estimate that 34% of women and 73% of men aged 64-75 would be at high risk compared with 24% and 86% according to the Framingham equation.QRISK would also identify a different group of patients than the Framingham equation, with one in ten patients being reclassified into high...

Divorce Leaves Women Significantly Worse Off Financially Than Men

A new study has found that after divorce, women are considerably worse off money-wise as compared ...divorcees over seven years, revealed that divorced women would be wealthier marrying again than trying to go back to work. The study also showed that, on t...

Toni Collette is Pregnant

...ntally, the 34-year-old has being playing pregnant women in many of her films of late, and she said that she was wondering what the universe was trying to tell her. . "It is strange the last three films I've done I have been pregnant. I'm just like, what is the universe trying to tell me," she said. "...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

...tion. As hormone production declines at menopause, women suffer from Hot Flushes and Night Sweats and are m...d-1970s, medical studies found that postmenopausal women who used estrogen therapy alone had a significantly increased risk of uterine cancer. Then researche...

Selenium Supplements Could Increase Diabetes Risk

... 55 micrograms per day of selenium for men and for women who aren't pregnant or breastfeeding. But it's lower than the Institute of Medicine's upper limit of 400 micrograms of selenium per day. For comparison, the other group took placebo pills containing no selenium. Participants didnt know whether they...

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