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One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital

... Dublin, Southern Ireland, also found that it took women five times as long as men to go to casualty depart...the casualty department. The average time it took women to get to hospital after the onset of initial symptoms was 14 hours, compared with 2.8 hours for men...

Faults in newly discovered breast stem cells may lead to tumours

... and clinicians have been puzzled by the fact that women whose breast cancer cells have been apparently eliminated by chemotherapy sometimes experience a recurrence of their cancer. A cancerous stem cell could provide one possible explanation for such a recurrence. Chemotherapy works by targeting cells t...

New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development

...icals.Currently, the highest rates of infection in women are in sub-Saharan Africa and rates are increasing in women in South and Southeast Asia. CONRAD has been involved in the research of nearly every microbicide c...

Epstein-Barr virus may be associated with multiple sclerosis

... of a particular virus in a person's body. The 36 women and six men who developed MS had their first symptoms at an average age of 45 years and an average of 15 years after their blood was collected. The average concentration of anti–Epstein-Barr virus antibodies was significantly higher among individual...

Big hips, big belly? It's in your genes, Joslin-led study shows

... of a particular virus in a person's body. The 36 women and six men who developed MS had their first symptoms at an average age of 45 years and an average of 15 years after their blood was collected. The average concentration of anti–Epstein-Barr virus antibodies was significantly higher among individual...

HIV decline in Zimbabwe linked to behavioural change

... ages, with a drop in prevalence of 49 percent for women aged between 15 and 24, and a 23 percent drop in m...clined from 19.5 percent to 18.2 percent, while in women aged 15 to 44, it declined from 25.9 percent to 22.3 percent. Professor Geoffrey Garnett, from Imp...

US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank

...y worldwide. In the US alone, in 2001, over 12,000 women tried to conceive with donor eggs. There are many ...s for infertility, but the most common problem for women over age 35 is that their eggs do not perform well enough to achieve pregnancy. The first frozen ...

The first baby boom

...d be fed, but also boosted individual fertility in women to a possibly unique extent on such a scale in human history," write the authors. ...

New weapon in battle against osteoporosis

...completely new possibilities for therapy: "In many women with osteoporosis the CB2 receptor functions, so i... without ovaries. The findings hold out hope for women with a CB2 defect, too. First, it is easy to identify whether a woman is carrying the relevant mutat...

First link of oral bacteria and preterm birth found in human

...hat they found the link during a pilot study of 34 women undergoing amniocentesis at MetroHealth. The women in their second or last trimester had sought testing for genetics, fetal development or suspected in...

Prenatal nicotine exposure reduces breathing response of newborns...

...hat they found the link during a pilot study of 34 women undergoing amniocentesis at MetroHealth. The women in their second or last trimester had sought testing for genetics, fetal development or suspected in...

Inflammation and drugs to control this activity studied in a variety of tumors sites

...sue were more likely to develop breast cancer than women with lower levels of the enzyme. According to Lyn...of Medicine in Rochester, Minn., about one million women a year have a breast biopsy with benign findings (sometimes called benign breast disease). One form ...

Thinner and younger

...edical Association on a six-month study of men and women between 25 and 50 who were placed on a calorie restriction diet that lowered their daily caloric intake by about 25 percent. The researchers compared those on calorie restriction to subjects who either had not been on a diet, had cut calories by abou...

COX-2 inhibitors significantly reduce risk of cancer

...ose aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen among 323 women with breast cancer from 1999-2004. They compared...with those from a control group of 649 cancer-free women matched for age, race and county of residence. They discovered that women who used NSAIDs on a regu...

Mayo Clinic study finds two genes predict outcome for breast cancer patients

...expression of two novel genes within the tumors of women with early stage breast cancer may allow identification of women who are and are not at risk for early relapse or cancer-related death. Results of the study are pub...

It's not fair! We are programmed to resist weight loss

...y balance." In the first study, 30 obese men and women took part in a 12-week, laboratory-based exercise program in which they exercised five times a week. The second study looked at weight loss in 200 males on a commercial weight loss program comprising exercise and dietary advice. "In the first stu...

RNA interference stops colon cancer spread in mice

...ch statistics are available, 70,651 men and 68,883 women were diagnosed with the colorectal cancer in the United States; 28,471 men and 28,132 women died from the disease. "What's exciting about this is that by using siRNAs we were able to selectiv...

Tamoxifen for breast cancer prevention does not benefit most women

Most women at high risk for breast cancer do not increase the... and appear online on Monday. "We found that for women at the lower end of the high-risk range for developing breast cancer, there is a very small likeliho...

Mechanism identified for promising neurological drug

...ook at whether minocycline has the same effects on women as in men. And as far as I know, that's not being looked at." The study results also have a potential positive implication directly bearing on research that Swanson is currently conducting on possible ways to prevent brain cell death and promote new...

High estrogen levels associated with dementia in older men

... hormones play a role. One large study showed that women receiving estrogen therapy had an increased risk of cognitive impairment and dementia. However, the evidence for how testosterone levels affect men is contradictory. To better understand the role of sex hormones in dementia, researchers led by Mir...

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