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Face perception is modulated by sexual orientation

... the intentions of other individuals. To this end, men and women likely adopt strategies of "face reading... postulated that heterosexual women and homosexual men would show a greater response in these areas to male than to female faces, whereas heterosexual men ...

Alzheimer's found to be mostly genetic

...le. Genetic risk for Alzheimer's was the same for men and women after controlling for age. The study is notable for its careful approach to Alzheimer's diagnosis. All individuals were screened for cognitive dysfunction. Suspected cases of dementia, of which Alzheimer's is the most common form, receive...

Nearly half of people who need cholesterol treatment don't get it

...clerosis (MESA), a population-based study of 6,814 men and women who had no known cardiovascular disease....." Among participants with cholesterol disorders, men were 20 percent less likely than women to be treated. Blacks and Hispanics were less likely (15 perc...

Does father know best?

...s for a man's involvement with his children, since men are less likely to interact with and support child... Anderson compared the paternity test results for men with high paternity confidence to the results for men with low paternity confidence in an effort to ...

Exposure to volcanic mineral associated with increased mesothelioma incidence in Turkey

...ity in Ankara, Turkey, and colleagues followed 891 men and women age 20 years and older in three villages in Turkey ?two exposed to erionite, one control ?for 23 years. During this period, 372 deaths occurred, and 119 of these deaths occurred from mesothelioma. This form of cancer mainly affects the lini...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

...birth to death. From these records we can identify men and women to invite who are aged between 40 and 69...mproving health, we are optimistic that many local men and women will be keen to get it off to a flying start." GPs in the area have already been notified...

Brain differences could explain why males and females experience pain relief differently

...development of differential treatments for pain in men versus women. A team led by Dr. Anne Murphy of ...ikely to experience chronic forms of pain than are men and that women report feeling more pain than men following various medical procedures. Recent reco...

Curry and cauliflower could halt prostate cancer

...cer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States, with a half-million new cases appearing each year. The incidence and mortality of prostate cancer have not decreased in past decades despite tremendous efforts and resources devoted to treatment. This is because advanced prostat...

Spousal illness can trigger partner death

...pacted the spouse differently. For instance, among men with hospitalized wives, if the wife was hospitali...d 156,004 wives (30 percent) died. The mean age of men in the study was 75 years and the mean age of women was 72 years. This is the largest study of its k...

Aggression-related gene weakens brain's impulse control circuits

...nd on interactions with environmental hard knocks: men with L were more prone to impulsive violence, but ...tal frontal cortex) was increased by 14 percent in men only. Although the reasons are unknown, this could reflect deficient pruning ?the withering of unuse...

Aspirin reduces cardiovascular risks in men and women -- but differently

...and death due to cardiovascular disease -- in both men and women, according to a new meta-analysis of mor...rapy as men." Berger emphasized that more healthy men and women who can tolerate aspirin should be taking the medication for the prevention of cardiovascu...

Male rivalry increases when females at most fertile, say researchers

...ing ovulation women tend to find masculine looking men more attractive and prefer their voices and odour....g. New research at the University has found that men sense this preference shift in their female partners and find masculine men more threatening during ...

Infections could contribute to adult brain tumours

...tern where many cases occurred at the same time in men and women over 15-years old in the East but not in the West. Around seven per cent more cases of brain tumours were observed to occur in 'clusters' than would be expected by chance. This is the first study to carry out this sophisticated form of s...

UCLA scientists find male gene in brain area targeted by Parkinson's

...ent Biology, the new research may explain why more men than women develop the degenerative disorder, whic...gs may offer new clues to how the disorder affects men and women differently, and shed light on why men are more susceptible to the disease." In 1990, Bri...

Skin disease common among Hispanic farmworkers in North Carolina, research shows

...rkers had skin disease, while 78 percent of the 54 men did. The study was conducted during the 2004 growing season. For men, the most common diagnoses were nail fungus, foot fungus and acne. Among the women, diagnoses included excessively dry skin, foot fungus and acne. "While these may not be a direct...

Alcoholism, smoking and genetics among Plains American Indians

...asant visual images." Whereas studies of European men have shown that the Met allele is associated with ...ics were smokers, only 12 percent of the alcoholic men and eight percent of the alcoholic women smoked heavily. "And three," she noted, "at least one th...

Human prostate grown from embryonic stem cells

... study healthy prostate tissue from 15-25 year old men to track this process. Understandably, there is a lack of access to samples from men in this age group, so to have found a way we can have an ongoing supply of prostate tissue is a sign...

Hormonal male contraception reversible after few months for all men

...se the promise of new contraceptive drugs allowing men to share more fairly the satisfaction and burden of family planning." ...

New male contraceptive clears hurdle

...in San Francisco, is just one of the many American men eagerly awaiting the results of a large clinical t... This new procedure could be the answer that gives men the decisive control we lack with current contraceptives." In the RISUG study, doctors inject a gel...

'Virus chip' detects new virus in prostate tumors

...d be involved in some types of prostate cancers in men with mutated RNASEL genes. In the new study, the ... removed. Among the 20 prostate tumor samples from men with mutations in both copies of their RNASEL viral defense gene, eight of them, or 40 percent, cont...

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