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For one Stanford doctor, the beat goes on during open-heart surgery

...n, Ihnken said. "For reasons not well-understood, women don't do as well during bypass as men," Ihnken said. "Women have double the mortality rates following bypass." Besides his own positive experiences with the technique, Ihnken points to a recent report in the new journal Innovations, which presents a...

Chemotherapy gel may fight breast cancer and reduce breast deformity

...l is to develop this into a clinical treatment for women undergoing breast cancer surgery," said Dr. Edingt...y." According to Dr. Edington, clinical trials on women with breast cancer will follow additional laboratory studies. A paper detailing these results will b...

Infections could contribute to adult brain tumours

...re 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 statistical...

Male rivalry increases when females at most fertile, say researchers

...rding to their fertility status. During ovulation women tend to find masculine looking men more attractive...their voices and odour. During this fertile phase women are more likely to have an affair with a masculine-looking man, as their features are linked to high...

A surprising pair of proteins help make healthy eggs

...ing infertility and ovarian cancer. "Thousands of women in this country undergo fertility treatments each ...ding, but it may provide answers for some of these women and, possibly, lead to better in-vitro fertilization therapies." In 2001, Freiman and colleagues at...

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

...physicians were reluctant to prescribe aspirin for women because there was little data," Berger continued. ... now, the combined data of recent trials involving women demonstrates that women can benefit just as much from aspirin therapy as men." Berger emphasized th...

Spousal illness can trigger partner death

...as 22 percent higher. Similar effects were seen in women whose husbands were hospitalized. Further analys... men in the study was 75 years and the mean age of women was 72 years. This is the largest study of its kind. Additionally, the authors considered how age, ...

New cellular flaw found in some virulent breast cancers

...one recent study, the seven-year survival rate for women with this subgroup of breast cancers was only about 13 percent. Clinicians have had some recent success in treating breast cancers with a mutated ErbB-2 gene, which are also referred to as being HER2-positive. The targeted therapy Herceptin blocks t...

Ethiopian development raises birth rate

... absent. They looked at the nutritional status of women and children (in terms of weight and height) and b...ed and others where it had not. While previously, women had to walk up to 30 km to fetch their families' water, the new water supply reduced the time spent ...

Breast implants not associated with cancer risk, study reports

...y reflect the lifestyles and smoking habits of the women in the study rather than an effect of the implants...e of cancer in a nationwide cohort of 3486 Swedish women who underwent cosmetic surgery for breast implants between 1965 and 1993 and were followed until the...

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

...of chronic pain. Clinical evidence suggests that women are much more likely to experience chronic forms of pain than are men and that women report feeling more pain than men following various medical procedures. Recent recommendations fro...

World shark attacks dipped in 2005, part of long-term trend

...oward the shark and not follow the advice given to women who are having their purses snatched in New York City, which is to lie on the ground, play dead and give up the purse." Despite the worldwide decline, the number of attacks in the United States rose slightly, from 30 in 2004 to 38 in 2005. But that ...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

... death. From these records we can identify men and women to invite who are aged between 40 and 69. This age... 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, and the ...

Exposure to volcanic mineral associated with increased mesothelioma incidence in Turkey

...nkara, 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 lining of the ...

Anti-HIV drug has potential to prevent transmission in women

... will ultimately evaluate whether the gel protects women from HIV infection," says co-author Lisa A. Maslan...safe and effective topical microbicide would offer women an HIV prevention method that they could control," Mayer says. In addition, researchers evaluated ...

Potential heart benefit found in stem cells

...study, the team collected menstrual blood from six women to obtain a sample of endometrial cells (E-DOM). The researchers found that approximately half of the E-DOM cells contracted simultaneously, suggesting an electrical communication between the cells. Further analyses of the cells revealed appropriate...

New test to detect rare proteins in blood

...hat early treatment prevents tumor reoccurrence in women with breast tumors. FACTT technology represents a ...e researchers collected blood samples from healthy women and breast cancer patients who did or did not overexpress Her2/neu, as detected by IHC and FISH. Whe...

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

... (MESA), a population-based study of 6,814 men and women who had no known cardiovascular disease. Caucasian...ol disorders, men were 20 percent less likely than women to be treated. Blacks and Hispanics were less likely (15 percent and 20 percent, respectively) than ...

Alzheimer's found to be mostly genetic

...etic 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, received complete...

Face perception is modulated by sexual orientation

...entions of other individuals. To this end, men and women likely adopt strategies of "face reading" in order...aces. The researchers postulated that heterosexual women and homosexual men would show a greater response in these areas to male than to female faces, wherea...

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