virtually every medical discipline, there are unanswered questions pertaining to women’s health and well-being. Closing the gender gap in medical research may require more than simply including women in research studies, says Teresa Woodruff, executive director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research, recently launched by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Teresa Woodruff
Since the early [...]
A new two-volume comprehensive book for safety and health professionals, The Safety Professionals Handbook, is edited by a Penn State industrial health and safety researcher in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and published by the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Joel M. Haight, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering and editor-in-chief of the [...]
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Even many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are [...]
It is important to take poor dental health seriously in that these people may be at greater risk of general physical and/or cognitive decline, Dr Poul Holm-Pedersen, of the Copenhagen Gerontological Oral Health Research Centre, told Reuters Health.
The finding in this study that tooth loss appears related to the onset of disability and mortality in [...]
Harvard University scientists have discovered a fundamental mechanism of tumour growth, a breakthrough that may lead to more effective and less toxic treatments for cancer.Indeed, two studies, published today in the journal Nature, may lead researchers to a potential %26quot;magic bullet%26quot; drug, that could attack many different forms of the disease, a top Canadian cancer [...]
Data from the clinical trial presented to a womens mental health conference in Melbourne shows the medication can reduce levels of a brain protein called amyloid, which is notoriously linked to the condition.
The protein behaves strangely in Alzheimers sufferers, dividing irregularly and creating a form called beta amyloid that builds up in sticky toxic clumps [...]
New data collected by NSW researchers has given the clearest picture yet of the number of women who get persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness in the weeks or months after giving birth.
A team from the University of Newcastle enlisted 2,500 women aged between 28 and 33 who had given birth in the past four [...]
A trial of 78 people conducted in Sydney, Melbourne and Sweden showed patients who took the drug for 12 weeks had a significant improvement in their ability to plan and carry out everyday activities.
Professor Colin Masters, from the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria at the University of Melbourne, said the drug could be the [...]
On a September morning, five days before surgery to remove her cancer, Virginia Yule saw her seven-year-old son, Alex, off to school, made a cup of tea and began typing a letter on her computer %26mdash; to her doctor.
%26ldquo;There are a couple of things I would like to share with you,%26rdquo; she wrote, %26ldquo;which [...]
While the cause of the allergic reactions remains unknown, the FDA said it plans to visit the Chinese plant this week as part of an investigation that the agency on Monday deemed “one of its top priorities.” Famulare portrayed the failure to inspect the [...]
