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Men are affected by kidney failure more often than women, new analysis shows

Our kidneys filter out toxic waste from the blood and regulate the fluid balance in the body as well as the balance of electrolytes and acid/base amongst others. Kidneys are important organs whose functions most of us take for granted, but when kidneys silently stop working this can create a life threatening situation.

27 Feb 2019

Preterm babies whose mother's received steroid treatment have lower birth weight

Steroid injections given to mothers at risk of giving birth prematurely are linked to babies being born with lower body weights.

26 Feb 2019

Study shows connection between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring ADHD

The higher the cotinine levels were in the mother's blood during pregnancy, the greater was the child's risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder later in life, showed an epidemiological study conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku in Finland.

26 Feb 2019

Women who work longer than 55 hours per week are more likely to suffer depression

New research has found that women who worked for longer than 55 hours per week were more likely to exhibit symptoms of depression than women who worked the standard 35 to 40-hour week.

26 Feb 2019

Researchers outline targeted therapeutic strategy for triple-negative breast cancer

New findings put forth by the University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering and researchers from four other academic institutions outline a targeted therapeutic strategy to treat triple-negative breast cancer - a potential first for the particularly aggressive form of breast cancer.

26 Feb 2019

Expert review identifies barriers to care for women with endometriosis

Women face a multitude of barriers to receiving quality care for endometriosis, a chronic, often painful disease that affects approximately 10% of reproductive-age women, an estimated 200 million women and teens worldwide.

26 Feb 2019

FDA warns Total Thermal Imaging for illegally marketing unapproved thermography device

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter toTotal Thermal Imaging Inc., of La Mesa, California, and its president and co-owner, Linda Hayes, for illegally marketing and distributing an unapproved thermography device as a sole screening device for breast cancer and other diseases.

25 Feb 2019

Cocktail of chemicals in the mother inhibits child growth

For the first time, researchers have shown that a combination of perfluorinated substances in the mother significantly inhibits child growth.

25 Feb 2019

Mothers with children taken into out-of-home care more likely to receive inadequate prenatal care

Mothers whose first child was taken into care were found to have inadequate or no prenatal care during subsequent pregnancies, according to a study published in CMAJ.

25 Feb 2019

Older biologic age associated with increased risk of developing breast cancer

Biologic age, a DNA-based estimate of a person's age, is associated with future development of breast cancer, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health.

23 Feb 2019

Heart attacks more likely to be fatal in women and rates are rising

A recent study found that the heart attack rate is increasing in younger women and that fatalities for this gender are more common compared to men.

22 Feb 2019

Breast cancer study: Family-history-based models perform better than non-family-history based models

A team of researchers led by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Professor Mary Beth Terry, PhD, evaluated four commonly used breast cancer prediction models and found that family-history-based models perform better than non-family-history based models, even for women at average or below-average risk of breast cancer.

22 Feb 2019

Study: Women with more social support have low risk of dying

Women aged 50-79 who believed they had more social support were less likely to die during the course of the study, according to a new study led by Dr. Nancy Freeborne, adjunct professor in George Mason University's College of Health and Human Services.

22 Feb 2019

Women's Health News

Men are affected by kidney failure more often than women, new analysis shows

Preterm babies whose mother's received steroid treatment have lower birth weight

Study shows connection between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring ADHD

Women who work longer than 55 hours per week are more likely to suffer depression

Researchers outline targeted therapeutic strategy for triple-negative breast cancer

Expert review identifies barriers to care for women with endometriosis

FDA warns Total Thermal Imaging for illegally marketing unapproved thermography device

Cocktail of chemicals in the mother inhibits child growth

Mothers with children taken into out-of-home care more likely to receive inadequate prenatal care

Older biologic age associated with increased risk of developing breast cancer

Heart attacks more likely to be fatal in women and rates are rising

Breast cancer study: Family-history-based models perform better than non-family-history based models

Study: Women with more social support have low risk of dying

Behavior change of prolonged smoking cessation may delay or prevent onset of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

Cervical cancer could be eradicated by 2100

Thousands with chronic UTIs are not receiving the treatment they need

New technology measures hormones that influence reproductive health efficiently

Lesbian and bisexual women at greater risk of being overweight, study finds

Strong social support may reduce cardiovascular disease risk in postmenopausal women

Study reveals major sex differences in management of cardiovascular risk factors among U.S. adults

Real-time Raman monitoring for pharmaceutical hot melt extrusion

Synthetic Psychedelics: A Growing Public Health Concern

How the Vutara VXL simplifies single-molecule imaging

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