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New egg freezing technique offers hope to hundreds of women

...ll help to even out the current inequality between men and women whereby, until now, men have been able to use their previously frozen sperm for IVF treatment but women have not been able t...

Injection may prevent infertility in men receiving cancer chemotherapy

...old out much promise for fertility preservation in men undergoing cancer treatments", he said. "We now intend to study the mechanism of protection, which is still unclear. Our work suggests that in addition to the direct damage caused by the treatment, significant testicular damage is caused by the im...

Chromosomal abnormalities in sperm higher after vasectomy reversal

...rofessor Sukchareon and his team had been studying men with obstructive azoospermia, a condition where sp...tion of the obstruction in post vasectomy-reversal men and the number of abnormal sperm, and also between the time interval after vasectomy reversal and th...

High estrogen levels associated with dementia in older men

...udy has found that higher estrogen levels in older men are associated with an increased risk of dementia....r, the evidence for how testosterone levels affect men is contradictory. To better understand the role of sex hormones in dementia, researchers led by M...

Mechanism identified for promising neurological drug

...e, as well as its potentially different effects on men and women. Swanson, who is also professor and vice chair of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, explains that the study links two previous biological observations. The first is that PARP-1, a protein found in every cell, becom...

RNA interference stops colon cancer spread in mice

...nt year for which statistics are available, 70,651 men and 68,883 women were diagnosed with the colorectal cancer in the United States; 28,471 men and 28,132 women died from the disease. "What's exciting about this is that by using siRNAs we were...

One-third of adults with diabetes still don't know they have it

...osed diabetes were about 70 percent more common in men than in women, especially in non-Hispanic white men. nearly 40 percent of people age 65 and older had IFG, which becomes more common with age. In the study, the researchers compared two slices of data, one from 1988 to 1994 and the other from 1999...

It's not fair! We are programmed to resist weight loss

...ve energy balance." In the first study, 30 obese men and women took part in a 12-week, laboratory-based exercise program in which they exercised five times a week. The second study looked at weight loss in 200 males on a commercial weight loss program comprising exercise and dietary advice. "In the...

New human retrovirus originated in mice

...uch cancers. DeRisi observed that "it may be that men who are so-called RNASEL-mutant are just more susceptible to viruses in general, and this susceptibility has little to do with their cancer. Nevertheless, the fact that this virus is found in tumor tissue and that it is a new virus and the first of i...

Thinner and younger

...erican Medical Association on a six-month study of men and women between 25 and 50 who were placed on a calorie restriction diet that lowered their daily caloric intake by about 25 percent. The researchers compared those on calorie restriction to subjects who either had not been on a diet, had cut calori...

Inflammation and drugs to control this activity studied in a variety of tumors sites

...es of prostate tissue over a five-year period from men who had abnormal serum prostate specific antigen (...d the results of prostate needle biopsies from 177 men between ages 47 and 83 years who were at high risk for developing cancer based on either high PSA sc...

'Scent of a woman' tells male redback spiders to find a mate

If men think finding a nice partner to settle down and raise children with is tough, consider the plight of the male Australian redback spider. Instead of personality conflicts, spats over in-laws and financial worries, imagine that immediately after the fi...

AIDS-related cognitive impairment exists in two separate forms

...ither very low or very high, but the prognosis for men who have scores in the mid-range is difficult to p...ficult to predict relapse and cancer recurrence in men who have a score of 6 or 7," she said. "Half of patients with these scores do well, and the other ha...

Markers of gene, protein, or micro-RNA activity predict outcome in prostate and colorectal cancers

...ither very low or very high, but the prognosis for men who have scores in the mid-range is difficult to p...ficult to predict relapse and cancer recurrence in men who have a score of 6 or 7," she said. "Half of patients with these scores do well, and the other ha...

Landmark discovery of a Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus receptor

...s older Italian men, transplant patients and young men in certain parts of sub-Saharan Africa. But then at the dawn of the AIDS pandemic in the early 1980s, the small purplish Kaposi's sarcoma skin lesions began appearing on the bodies of young American men, many of whom went on to develop opportunistic ...

HIV decline in Zimbabwe linked to behavioural change

...n aged between 15 and 24, and a 23 percent drop in men aged 17 to 29. In 2003 Zimbabwe was estimated to...lence declined from 23 percent to 20.5 percent. In men aged 17 to 54 it had declined from 19.5 percent to 18.2 percent, while in women aged 15 to 44, it de...

Big hips, big belly? It's in your genes, Joslin-led study shows

...ar virus in a person's body. The 36 women and six men who developed MS had their first symptoms at an average age of 45 years and an average of 15 years after their blood was collected. The average concentration of anti–Epstein-Barr virus antibodies was significantly higher among individuals who had de...

Epstein-Barr virus may be associated with multiple sclerosis

...ar virus in a person's body. The 36 women and six men who developed MS had their first symptoms at an average age of 45 years and an average of 15 years after their blood was collected. The average concentration of anti–Epstein-Barr virus antibodies was significantly higher among individuals who had de...

New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development

...y expanding the contraceptive choices of women and men and by helping to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. CONRAD is administered through the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk, VA, with the main office...

One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital

Seven per cent of men having a heart attack drove themselves to hospital...lso found that it took women five times as long as men to go to casualty departments after their symptoms first started. But only one per cent got behind t...

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