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No link found between caffeine intake and development of hypertension in women

...es' Health Studies (NHSs) I and II of 155,594 U.S. women free from physician-diagnosed hypertension, who we...4 million person-years of follow-up [the number of women in the study times the number of years of follow-up per woman], the relevant exposures and outcomes ...

Hepatitis B accounts for 40 percent of 'missing' Asian women

...neglect of female children and poor conditions for women and, as a result, have argued that as many as 100 million women are "missing." However, in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Political Economy, Oster propo...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...fected men or women, but not both. "Historically women have lived longer than men on average, the prevalence of numerous serious diseases differs in men and women, and there are important differences in age-related physiological changes that occur between the sexes over the life span," said Dr. Zubenko. ...

Eisai announces Phase II data on E7389, a potential new therapy for the treatment of breast cancer

...erapeutic areas of focus," she added. Seventy-one women were enrolled in the 28-day cycle patient group. Preliminary efficacy data for 65 patients and safety data on 48 patients are available. The 65 patients considered evaluable for response had completed at least their 2nd cycle of treatment and had a t...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...ease claims the lives of more than 40,000 American women each year -- so a diagnostic tool that will allow patients to begin a course of treatment as early as possible is urgently needed. Meyer-Baese hopes to utilize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) -- which holds promise in better detection of hard-to-fi...

Travelers can avoid jet lag by resetting their body clocks

...rch Lab studied 44 healthy adults -- 24 men and 19 women -- between the ages of 19 and 45 years old. The participants were randomly divided into three groups and assigned one of three treatments -- placebo, 0.5 mg melatonin, or 3.0 mg melatonin. Each participant was assigned a strict eight hour sleep s...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

... enhanced rice in their diets. After 9 months, the women had significantly higher levels of total body iron in their blood. "This study documents a major breakthrough in the battle to prevent micronutrient malnutrition," said Dr. Robert Zeigler, director general of IRRI. "These results are especially im...

Men and women differ in brain use during same tasks

... from the University of Alberta shows that men and women utilize different parts of their brains while they...rent regions of the brain are activated in men and women in response to the same task has large potential implications for a variety of different clinical si...

Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

... birth defects in poorer countries, including more women of advanced age having children and a greater freq...disorders such as phenylketonuria (PKU); Educate women and men of childbearing age about how they can work with health professionals to maximize the chance...

Combination therapy improves AIDS-related lymphoma outcome

...mproves the survival rates of HIV-positive men and women treated for lymphoma, according to a new study. Published in the April 1, 2006 issue of CANCER ( http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom ), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals that combination therapy...

Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters

...s important there were programmes of education for women and men, particularly parents, about HPV and cervi...ctive means of preventing HPV infection when young women are most susceptible in their teenage and young adult years. "The origins of cervical cancer lie in...

Free HIV tests cheaper than charging when goal is preventing AIDS

... and assistance. "They are a remarkable group of women doing the hard work of taking care of AIDS patients for the long-term. They asked us to provide an HIV testing program as a means of promoting behavioral changes, and that's really the genesis of this project," Thielman said. The KIWAKKUKI program ...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...imate HIV infection rates. The number of men and women aged 15 to 49 years who are infected with HIV may ...n, injection drugs users, sex workers and pregnant women ?are of particular concern. The aim of the UCSD study, conducted along with collaborators in Mexico...

Pain killer fights breast cancer by targeting key enzyme

...can cause cells to divide too quickly. While many women with estrogen-dependent breast cancer take aromatase inhibitors to control their disease, the problem is that the current inhibitor drugs halt estrogen production throughout the body, said Robert Brueggemeier, a study co-author and a professor of med...

Ultrasounds show mothers' drinking shrinks fetal brain

...obtained routine ultrasound data from 167 pregnant women who had reported a history of hazardous drinking b...rning of their impending motherhood to those among women who continued to drink. Within the heavy drinking group, the ultrasounds revealed that fetuses of ...

Growth hormone is made in the brain, report scientists

...strogen. The study has implications for menopausal women using estrogen replacement therapy and for athletes taking growth hormone and anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass. The scientists suspect that reasoning and mood may also be affected by these differences in the amount of growth hormone in the ...

Alcoholism, smoking and genetics among Plains American Indians

...e alcoholic men and eight percent of the alcoholic women smoked heavily. "And three," she noted, "at least one third are social smokers who never progress to 'real' smoking, they just smoke in social settings. This may be a throwback to the traditional use of tobacco amongst American Indians." Enoch...

Terahertz imaging may reduce breast cancer surgeries

...xcised breast tissue samples were obtained from 22 women who underwent either wide local excision or mastectomy to remove breast cancer. All samples were first sliced and imaged with terahertz light, and then submitted for histopathologic analysis. Imaging took less than five minutes. "There were substant...

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

...gy, the new research may explain why more men than women develop the degenerative disorder, which afflicts ...ffer 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, British resea...

Marine mammals are on the frontline of failing ocean health

...re simply hit with a flu-like illness. However, if women are infected when they are pregnant, it can lead to miscarriages or developmental problems in the fetus, most often affecting brain function and sight. Toxoplasma can also cause a severe brain disease in people with suppressed immune systems from tr...

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