Tag: health
member name: Women's Health Research
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September 28, 2007 11:28 AM EDT --
The frequency of binge drinking is way up on college campuses across America. Binge drinking is defined as having four to five drinks in a row for the sole purpose of getting drunk and studies show . . .
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August 30, 2007 12:47 PM EDT --
Ovarian cancer, long considered a silent killer because of the lack of warning signs, may not be so silent. A new consensus statement released by the Gynecological Cancer Foundation reveals that women . . .
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February 14, 2007 12:52 PM EST --
People looking to lose those extra pounds have been told for decades that dieting together with exercise will bring about the best results. Not so, says new research published in the Journal of Clinical . . .
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August 21, 2007 03:19 PM EDT --
Adult women are more than twice as likely to know how much they weighed in high school as they are to know their cholesterol number, and only about half of women have had a cholesterol test in the past . . .
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July 23, 2008 02:57 PM EDT --
The vast majority of Americans recognize the value of medical research and the importance of human subjects participating in studies. But when it comes to volunteering for research, there's a . . .
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April 19, 2007 05:48 PM EDT --
If you don’t suffer from dry eye syndrome (DES), chances are you’ve never heard of it. It is a condition characterized by an insufficiency in the amount or quality of tears. For . . .
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November 08, 2007 05:32 PM EST --
Sex is supposed to be enjoyable, but for countless women suffering from vulvodynia, that’s not the case. Characterized by pain or discomfort with sexual intercourse, rawness, stinging, itching . . .
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May 14, 2008 03:58 PM EDT --
Many women aren't aware of the benefits from their participation in clinical research. According to a recent survey by the Society for Women's Health Research, only 9 percent of women have ever . . .
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August 02, 2007 04:22 PM EDT --
Five years ago this summer the National Institutes of Health’s stopped early a major portion of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a large and ambitious study to address the most common causes . . .
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March 09, 2007 01:54 PM EST --
With cases of obesity and type 2 diabetes at record numbers in the United States, new research reveals that women with “pre-diabetes” may experience blood vessel dysfunction, clot formation . . .
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April 25, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
Coronary heart disease and stroke kill more Americans every year than all cancers combined . What's even more disturbing is that there is often a single underlying cause.
It's known as atherosclerosis, . . .
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November 30, 2007 03:43 PM EST --
Although mood disorders and depression may occur at any age during a woman’s life, women seem to more vulnerable during times of hormonal fluctuations such as the menstrual period, pregnancy and . . .
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January 22, 2008 05:09 PM EST --
The last 50 years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of cervical cancer cases, according to the National Cancer Institute. This trend can be primarily attributed to the use of the Pap . . .
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May 04, 2007 03:19 PM EDT --
Have you ever felt rushed through a routine medical check-up with your doctor? If so, you are like many patients who often complain that they don’t get enough time with their doctors. And . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:21 PM EDT --
Women with advanced-staged lung cancer have a better overall survival rate than men, but there’s a catch. The finding seems only to hold true for women 60 and older. For women under the . . .
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July 03, 2008 04:42 PM EDT --
There are approximately 400,000 people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the United States today with 200 new patients diagnosed every week.
"No one knows what causes MS," said Phyllis Greenberger, . . .
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August 11, 2008 12:20 PM EDT --
Most women will take the necessary precautions to protect the health of their newborn babies. They will consume prenatal vitamins, curtail certain behaviors like smoking and drinking and eat healthy . . .
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February 22, 2007 03:23 PM EST --
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves every medical drug, device and treatment that is available to us by prescription or over-the-counter. They all undergo a rigorous testing process that . . .
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December 13, 2007 04:20 PM EST --
As the New Year quickly approaches, vows to adopt a healthier lifestyle abound. Health-related New Year's resolutions top the list of promises American adults make to themselves as the calendar . . .
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February 15, 2008 10:52 AM EST --
Despite the fact that folic acid can prevent some of the most common birth defects, young women aren't getting enough of it. Only one in three women ages 18-24 takes a daily supplement containing . . .
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