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New study raises questions about linking women's moods to PMS

New study raises questions about linking women's moods to PM...

Is premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to blame for your bad mood? Not so fast, suggest researchers from the medical school at the University of Toronto. When it comes to moodiness, they claim PMS is too often the scapegoat for general stress or [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Women’s Health Research at Yale awards four pilot study grants

Women’s Health Research at Yale awards four pilot study gran...

This year’s Pilot Project Program grants from Women’s Health Research at Yale target some of today’s most critical areas of women’s health: smoking cessation, which is more difficult for women than men; breast and [...]

Posted On : Jun, 28 2012 | Comments : 0

Male doctors earn more than women: US study

Male doctors earn more than women: US study

WASHINGTON — Men who are doctors earn about $12,000 more per year than women doctors, according to a US study published on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The differences persisted even after adjusting fo [...]

Posted On : Jun, 13 2012 | Comments : 0

Breast cancer recurs in almost one in four patients, British study says

Breast cancer recurs in almost one in four patients, British...

Almost one in four women who develop breast cancer will see the disease return within 10 years, according to the first British study of how many sufferers confront the UK's commonest cancer twice. Research into 1,000 women who were fi [...]

Posted On : Jun, 12 2012 | Comments : 0

Cigarette tax hikes curb smoking in pregnancy: study

Cigarette tax hikes curb smoking in pregnancy: study

When taxes on cigarettes go up, smoking among pregnant Americans goes down, new research reveals. Exploring the potential impact of state tobacco control policies on pregnant smokers, the study suggests that bumping cigarette prices by a [...]

Posted On : Jun, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Anti-cholesterol statins don't reduce skin cancer: Study

Despite earlier indications that people taking cholesterol-lowering statins might have a reduced risk of developing melanoma, a study of thousands of women found that the popular drugs do nothing to prevent the deadly skin cancer. Evid [...]

Posted On : Apr, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Women lag behind men in life expectancy gains: Study

Women lag behind men in life expectancy gains: Study

(CBS News) Women may tend to live longer than men but they lag behind them when it comes to gains in life expectancy, according to a new nationwide study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). The study analyzed c [...]

Posted On : Apr, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Study supports mammograms for women in their 40s

Women in their 40s with no family history of breast cancer are just as likely to develop invasive breast cancer as women whose mother or sister has had the disease, according to a new study. These preliminary findings support a recommenda [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Study: Multivitamins may have adverse effect on women's health

Study: Multivitamins may have adverse effect on women's heal...

According to the findings of the Iowa Women's Health Study, women who take multivitamins are apparently at a higher risk of death as compared to their counterparts who do not take such dietary supplements. The study - published in [...]

Posted On : Oct, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Women with breast-cancer gene developing disease earlier: St...

Women with the gene that causes breast cancer are developing the disease almost eight years earlier than their mothers or aunts who also had the disease, a new study suggests. The findings, published Sept. 12 in CANCER, a peer-reviewed [...]

Posted On : Sep, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

U of A seeks women in the trades to study gender-specific he...

Erin Meetoos is apprenticing to be a welder because she thinks it's a fun, exciting, challenging and well-paid occupation, but she knows it will put her health at risk. "I know I'm probably going to lose some of my hearing, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Extra funding for women's health study

The federal government has announced a further $5.3 million for a study into the health of Australian women. The Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, which began in 1996, has conducted follow-up health surveys with more than 40,000 [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Women still work double shifts, as men offer no help: Study

Irrespective of the increasing number of working women, most of the burden of the household chores still fall on them as men offer no help, a new study has suggested. The proportion of the workforce represented by women rose from 20.7 pe [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Men really do sweat more - study

Men really do sweat more - study

You probably dismiss it as just another old saying. But when ladies insist that they glow rather than sweat, they may not be so far off the truth. Researchers say women really do sweat far less than men, particularly during intensiv [...]

Posted On : Oct, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

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