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Major new UNC-based drinking water study suggests pregnancy fears may be overstated

...ater with chlorine boost the chances that pregnant women will miscarry were not supported by the results of...mber 2000 and April 2004, the team recruited 3,132 women in the three areas who were planning a pregnancy or who had been pregnant for fewer than 12 weeks. T...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

Eighty-eight percent of women rely on their healthcare providers to learn about ...se that can be better prevented, we're encouraging women to discuss with their healthcare provider their HPV risk, get regular screenings with the Pap test a...

Antiretroviral Therapy May Prevent HIV Transmission From Breastfeeding Mothers To Infants

...milk. They measured these levels in two groups: 26 women who received nevirapine, lamivudine, and zidovudin...e beginning during pregnancy or postpartum, and 25 women from an earlier time period with comparable HIV disease, who did not receive antiretroviral therapy ...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

.... However, more than 1.6 million people, primarily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide ...will cause about 10 million premature deaths among women and children in Africa. By 2050, according to the report, smoke from cooking fires will release abou...

Moffitt-USF head toward first human trials of anti-cancer drug that targets protein AKT

...arian cancer, for instance, because "40 percent of women with ovarian cancer have tumors with high levels of active Akt," according to Sebti. "To our knowledge, this is the first Akt inhibitor headed toward clinical trials," said Jin Cheng, MD, PhD, USF Professor of Pathology and Interdisciplinary Oncolog...

Any exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy is risky

..., we found similarly increased induced mutation in women who had quit smoking during pregnancy, usually whe...tical warnings, it would be appropriate to caution women to quit smoking if they are pregnant or likely to become pregnant. It is equally imperative that wor...

One hit of crystal meth causes birth defects

...ding, given the increasing use of club drugs among women of childbearing age. It has clinical implications,...d," says Wells. Wells' next step will be to study women and their babies who have been exposed to drugs like methamphetamine that enhance free radical forma...

Scripps research scientists identify infertility molecule

...t step in conception. This is significant because women also have these LPA receptors expressed in their w...ncies for some of the more than 6 million American women affected by infertility. Fertility and the Demographics of the Western World In the Western world,...

Scientists succeed in cloning human embryos from eggs matured in the lab

...esearch because almost all that are retrieved from women seeking fertility treatment are used to treat the patient. Immature oocytes are not used routinely for treatment at present, and so any that are retrieved can be donated for research. These immature oocytes are arrested in the prophase I stage, befor...

Invitrogen Launches i-Path -- A Unique Systems Biology Platform at BIO 2005

...esearch because almost all that are retrieved from women seeking fertility treatment are used to treat the patient. Immature oocytes are not used routinely for treatment at present, and so any that are retrieved can be donated for research. These immature oocytes are arrested in the prophase I stage, befor...

Male Combat Veterans Rank High In Heart Disease Risk

... were not included in this analysis because so few women veterans were in the study population, Johnson said. In the future, the ongoing LCSES study will investigate the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and morbidity and mortality. ...

Drug Offers Alternative to Surgical Treatment After Miscarriage

...gun prescribing misoprostol in place of surgery to women who have experienced a miscarriage. Until the curr...other cases, a fetus may no longer be present, and women may carry a placenta and sac of amniotic fluid. In all of these cases, the standard treatment is a ...

Sleeping Sickness Epidemic Spreading in Uganda

...gun prescribing misoprostol in place of surgery to women who have experienced a miscarriage. Until the curr...other cases, a fetus may no longer be present, and women may carry a placenta and sac of amniotic fluid. In all of these cases, the standard treatment is a ...

Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to develop into eggs and sperm in the laboratory

...rocess may cause genetic changes. For some men and women this would be the only route for producing sperm and eggs. It would not be reproductive cloning as fertilisation would involve only one set of gametes produced in this way and therefore a unique embryo would form. "In addition, if we could produce e...

Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

...heat stress. In the effort to understand why young women are more susceptible to fainting than men, he also studies how estrogen and progesterone influence blood pressure regulation. Minson is the winner of a 2005 American Physiology Society's Outstanding Young Investigator Award (his second since 2000) a...

Men Estimate Men's Risks Of Common Disorders Higher Than Women Do, And Vice Versa

...er differences in health reveals that both men and women believe health risks are higher for their own sex ... males think that men are fitter and females think women are more athletic. Professor Sally Macintyre in the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at t...

OHSU research shows vitamin C counteracts some negative impacts of smoking on unborn babies

...this translates to about a half a million American women a year. Reflecting the highly addictive nature of smoking, these women continue to smoke despite the warnings of their physicians and despite a tremendous public awareness...

High rates of sexually transmitted infections found in young drug users

... drug users in Baltimore, Md. The study found that women had significantly higher rates compared to their male counterparts, but did not find significant differences between injection drug users and non-injection drug users. Few of the infected study participants were aware of their sexually transmitted in...

Pregnant women at higher risk for HIV, Uganda study finds

...IV rises during pregnancy, according to a study of women in Uganda's Rakai District led by researchers at t...r investigators to verify our results. However, if women are at increased risk of HIV acquisition during pregnancy, our findings represent a public-health pr...

Female volunteers prepare for a second 'bedrest'

Twelve women recently completed 60 days of voluntary bedrest in...gy (MEDES) in Toulouse. For two months, the twelve women hade been lying in beds inclined at an angle of 6°, with their feet slightly higher than their heads...

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