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Female veterans have fewer pain complaints than men
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • • Pain • Oct 28 09
Female veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are less likely to complain of painful physical conditions than their male counterparts are.
Increased Stroke Risk from Birth Control Pills
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • • Stroke • Oct 26 09
She was only 30 years old, but she was experiencing the classic symptoms of a stroke. Her speech suddenly became slurred, and her left…
Is Your Hair Taking a Break? Dermatologists Can Help Women Get to the Root of Hair Loss
• Gender: Female • • Hair Loss • Jul 29 09
For many women, their hair is one of their most defining characteristics. From short and sassy bobs to long, cascading curls, the right hairstyle…
Divorce Undermines Health in Ways Remarriage Doesn’t Heal
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • • Public Health • Jul 27 09
Divorce and widowhood have a lingering, detrimental impact on health, even after a person remarries, research at the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins…
Young Black Women Prone to Gain More Unhealthy Abdominal Fat than Hispanics
• Diabetes • • Fat, Dietary • • Gender: Female • Jul 14 09
Black women ages 20 to 29 are more prone to pack on unhealthy abdominal and visceral fat than Hispanic women the same age, and…
Fertility drug combo promising in older women
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Gender: Female • Jul 03 09
The combination of two drugs - Femara (letrozole) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) - could be of benefit in infertile women of advanced reproductive age…
Telemedicine Stroke Program Saves Woman
• Gender: Female • • Stroke • Jun 23 09
While suffering a major stroke at her home near Mena, Iva Sikes assumed the worst, not knowing that a University of Arkansas for…
Early prognosis after ‘mini-stroke’ better in women
• Gender: Female • • Neurology • • Stroke • Jun 22 09
In the first year after a mini-stroke, also known as “transient ischemic attack” or TIA, elderly women have lower rates of stroke, cardiovascular…
Obesity May Reduce Brain Gray Matter in Postmenopausal Women
• Gender: Female • • Neurology • • Obesity • Jun 19 09
Results from a small study of postmenopausal women suggest that obesity might relate to a reduced volume of gray matter in the brain. However,…
Snoring pregnant women at higher risk for gestational diabetes
• Diabetes • • Gender: Female • • Pregnancy • Jun 12 09
If you are pregnant and your mate complains your frequent snoring is rattling the bedroom windows, you may have bigger problems than an annoyed,…
Rheumatoid arthritis is associated with poor sleep in women
• Arthritis • • Gender: Female • • Sleep Aid • Jun 10 09
According to a research abstract that will be presented on Wednesday, June 10, at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated…
Simple Steps to Healthy Summer Feet
• Gender: Female • • Infections • May 01 09
The first thing most women do before exchanging their winter boots for summer sandals is make an appointment with their pedicurist. It is the…
Physical Abuse Raises Women’s Health Costs Over 40 Percent
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Mar 23 09
Women experiencing physical abuse from intimate partners spent 42 percent more on health care per year than non-abused women, according to a long-term study…
Women often delay seeking care for stroke symptoms
• Gender: Female • • Neurology • Feb 25 09
Women take longer than men to get to the hospital when they experience stroke symptoms and they have worse neurological deficits, investigators reported here…
Women Less Likely to Have a Stroke After Mini-Stroke
• Gender: Female • • Stroke • Feb 23 09
That first “mini-stroke” may be more of a benign event for women than men, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at…
Women less likely to receive critical care after a stroke, MSU researchers find
• Gender: Female • • Stroke • Feb 19 09
Women are 30 percent less likely than men to receive a critical clot-busting drug than can limit brain damage after a stroke, according to…
Coffee may cut women’s stroke risk
• Food & Nutrition • • Gender: Female • • Stroke • Feb 19 09
Female coffee drinkers can enjoy their java in good health - at least when it comes to stroke risk, new research from Spain shows.
…Alzheimer’s Disease: Women Affected More Often than Men
• Brain • • Gender: Female • • Neurology • Dec 19 08
Nearly 4.5 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in our country, and more than half of them are women, according to the…
Effort to Stop Smoking is More Intense for Women
• Gender: Female • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 10 08
No evidence can confirm if men or women have more success in efforts to stop smoking.
But, according to the December issue of Mayo…
Women More Likely than Men to be Hospitalized for Chest Pain
• Gender: Female • • Heart • • Pain • Nov 24 08
Women are more likely than men to be hospitalized for chest pain for which doctors cannot find a cause, according to the latest News…
Alcohol - a little is good, a lot is bad
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • Oct 06 08
Alcohol can be a boon or a bane for health. The difference lies in the dose - a little is good, a lot is…
Unusual case of a woman who suffered stroke during sex
• Gender: Female • • Sexual Health • • Stroke • Sep 15 08
Minutes after having sexual intercourse with her boyfriend, a 35-year-old woman suddenly felt her left arm go weak. Her speech became slurred and she…
Does a gene variant make women more prone to alcoholism?
• Gender: Female • • Genetics • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Jul 08 08
A particular gene variant might make women more susceptible to alcoholism. At least, a study carried out by the Universities of Bonn and Sweden’s…
Are Men or Women More Likely to Have Memory Problems in Very Old Age?
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • • Neurology • Jul 03 08
Women over age 90 are significantly more likely to have dementia compared to men in their 90s, according to a study published in…
Woman aquires new accent after stroke
• Gender: Female • • Stroke • Jul 03 08
A woman in southern Ontario is one of the first cases in Canada of a rare neurological syndrome in which a person starts speaking…