Article: Women Are More Sensitive Than Men To Noise.(Brief Article)

Article: Study finds delay in follow-up among African-American ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... follow-up times among African-American women after the finding of a suspicious breast ... study indicates that African-American women may face obstacles to receiving appropriate ... particularly South Carolina, African-American women suffer disproportionately higher mortality ...

Article: Scientists identify a cellular pathway by which alcohol may ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... esophagus, liver, colon, rectum, and, in women, the breast," explained Christopher ... caution. "These results suggest that women should consider managing their alcohol ... Mental Health, Oncology, Pancreas, Women's Health. This article was prepared ...

Article: MicroRNA-mediated metastasis suppression.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     554 words ... ... types - including breast cancer". Keywords: Breast Cancer, Breast Carcinoma, Diagnostics, Oncology, Therapy, Treatment, Women's Health, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This article was prepared by NewsRx Health & Science editors from staff and other ...

Article: Increased stroke risk from birth control pills.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 8.5 strokes per 100,000 women, according to a well-performed ... additional stroke for every 25,000 women who take birth control pills ... according to the article. But for women who take birth control pills ... Biller. "For a healthy young woman without any other stroke risk ...

Article: Crossing paths.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... However, among college age women, it's a different story: Caucasian women are more apt to exhibit binge ... behaviors than African American women, according to a study presented ... behaviors and attitudes. Each woman self-reported her height and ...

Article: 'Difficult-to-treat asthma' may be due to difficult-to-treat ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... practice." Some patient characteristics were more strongly associated with nonadherence than others: women were less likely to be adherent than men, a finding that had been previously identified, but that Dr. Heaney cites as needing more investigation ...

Article: Sex-based prenatal brain differences found.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... brain disturbances and diseases. A large number of psychiatric illnesses, including depression and autism, affect men and women differentially. "Taking account of sex-based differences is crucial to the study of normal and abnormal brain activity ...