women 2 4

Tag: "women" at biology news

New Discovery May Help Doctors Treat Infertility

...erred to as fertility drugs may be ineffective for women who lack a gene called the estrogen receptor beta....ys a critical role in ovulation, and suggests that women who do not have this receptor may benefit more from alternative infertility treatments. The findings...

Thinking the pain away? Study shows the brain's painkillers may cause 'placebo effect'

...e needed to determine whether the effect occurs in women and in people with various illnesses. The power of placebos to ease pain symptoms has been well-documented in many groups of subjects and illnesses, but the researchers started with healthy young males to rule out the impact of chronic pain, mood dis...

Fundamental discovery -- Bone fracture

... of life goes down. Less than one-third of elderly women who have a hip fracture return to previous function. More women die within a year of hip fracture than die after a heart attack. So it's a very serious problem and ...

Mass production of human papillomavirus could lead to gains against cervical cancer

...PV. At least 50 percent of sexually active men and women will acquire genital HPV infection at some point in their lives. By age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. Although the infection is usually harmless, certain types...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

...ort small-scale businesses, most of them headed by women entrepreneurs, in processing and marketing could improve food and nutritional security for both producers (more income) and consumers (better quality and more quantity). 4. Increase benefits from fish trade Local and regional fish trade is alread...

Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

...ort small-scale businesses, most of them headed by women entrepreneurs, in processing and marketing could improve food and nutritional security for both producers (more income) and consumers (better quality and more quantity). 4. Increase benefits from fish trade Local and regional fish trade is alread...

Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones

... four continents today appealed to girls and young women to realize that modern ideas of "beauty" can damag..., even for beauty queens, is changing. They urged women and men of all ages to take responsibility for their bone health, to recognize that while beauty is ...

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS

...te of Allergy and Infectious Disease, reports that women have in the last 20 years moved from being those l... disease is spreading fastest. According to Quinn women now make up nearly half of the 40 million people worldwide currently infected with HIV, the virus th...

One bacteria stops another on contact

...cted by the immune system," he said. Thousands of women in this country have chronic urinary tract infections, noted the scientists. The disease seems to go away for awhile, then something triggers recurrence of the disease. Work by Scott Hultrgen at Washington University has indicated that E. coli cell...

Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria

...nvolves children under five years of age. Pregnant women are also highly susceptible to the effects of malaria, but the good news is that they too appear to have much greater immune protection conferred by the preventative or 'presumptive' use of Fansidar. This looks like a case of teaching an old drug new...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

... for herbal supplements, which is such a mess that women should have lots of reservations in taking these s...rol in formulating these supplements and says that women with a high risk of breast cancer should be particularly cautious. According to Warren, 23 percent ...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

... for herbal supplements, which is such a mess that women should have lots of reservations in taking these s...rol in formulating these supplements and says that women with a high risk of breast cancer should be particularly cautious. According to Warren, 23 percent ...

Opiates Better Than Sedatives For Treating Newborns In Withdrawal

...superior to sedatives for treating infants born to women who used heroin or methadone while pregnant. Opia...hold Survey on Drug Abuse, 3.4 percent of pregnant women reported illicit drug use in the past month, which according to authors represents some 3,000 curren...

Researchers discover new route to hemoglobin synthesis

...superior to sedatives for treating infants born to women who used heroin or methadone while pregnant. Opia...hold Survey on Drug Abuse, 3.4 percent of pregnant women reported illicit drug use in the past month, which according to authors represents some 3,000 curren...

Results of world's first gene therapy trial for arthritis show approach safe, feasible

...l of Medicine between 1996 and 1999, involved nine women who had genetically modified cells injected into t...nts that were not treated with the gene. The nine women enrolled in the trial were between 49 and 73 years of age and had been living with rheumatoid arthri...

Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient

...dership, and real investment in the empowerment of women and girls. Women now accounted for about half of a...and new populations within countries, particularly women and girls, and 95 per cent of those infected were in low- and medium-income countries. Given the qu...

Suppressing growth hormone in early adulthood may prevent cancer

... cancer. "Elevated IGF-1 levels in pre-menopausal women have been demonstrated to be a risk factor for breast cancer as well as numerous other cancers," said Sonntag, professor of physiology and pharmacology at the School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. IGF-1 in the ...

Israeli scientists successfully transplant frozen-thawed ovaries in sheep

...his approach could become a feasible treatment for women facing premature ovarian failure, and furthermore,... next goal was to attempt to transplant ovaries in women at risk of losing their fertility. "There is a lot of research still to be done, but we hope that ...

Lactose intolerance linked to ancestral environment

...a and vomiting early in pregnancy also may protect women and their embryos from food-borne pathogens and other toxins." A Darwinian medicinal view complements traditional medicine, Sherman said, because if researchers can better understand why a symptom occurs, such as a fever, runny nose or allergy, they...

Experimental shingles vaccine proves effective in nationwide study

...er research team enrolled more than 38,500 men and women age 60 or older into the study. Half of the participants received a single injection of the zoster vaccine--a live, weakened form of varicella-zoster virus, the virus responsible for chickenpox; the other half received a placebo vaccine. Neither the ...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10