Article: Men's choir? Think again

Article: 'Culture of we' buffers genetic tendency to depression.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the most profound ways that people across cultural groups differ markedly, cultural psychology demonstrates, is in how they think of themselves. "People from highly individualistic cultures like the United States and Western Europe are more likely to value ...

Article: 'Difficult-to-treat asthma' may be due to difficult-to-treat ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 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. Another red flag ...

Article: Sex-based prenatal brain differences found.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... treatment of 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 ...

Article: Attending community college does make you richer, study says.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... annually than high school educated women. Men who enroll at a community college and attain ... degrees. The sample was balanced between men and women. The National Center for Education ... college, even without earning a degree. Men earn 5.1% more annually for each year ...

Article: Partners in weight loss success may help African-Americans shed ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Medicine, Philadelphia, conducted a two-year trial of a culturally specific weight loss program among 344 African American men and women. The goal was to achieve and maintain a 5 percent to 10 percent weight loss. Components of the program included counseling ...

Article: Practice-changing cancer studies to be unveiled at ASTRO Annual ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... therapy reduces prostate cancer recurrences Men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy ... recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton ... beam therapy can be safely delivered to men with prostate cancer and has minimal urinary ...

Article: Heart attacks become more common but less often fatal in women.
NewsRx Health & Science;  November 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... recently experienced a greater increase than men in their chances of survival following such ... overall risk of heart events and stroke than men of a similar age, according to background ... showing higher stroke rates among women than men in a sample representative of the U.S ...