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Thomson Reuters announces this year's Hottest Researchers

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters today announced this year's Hottest Researchers, a ranking of the most influential scientific researchers and research papers on ScienceWatch, the open web resource for science metrics and analysis.

5 Jun 2013

Treatment can restore satisfying sex life post menopause

A satisfying sex life is an important contributor to older adults' quality of life, but the sexual pain that can come after menopause can rob women and their partners of that satisfaction. Treatment can help restore it, shows a global survey including some 1,000 middle-aged North American men and women, published online today in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).

5 Jun 2013

Better understanding of breast milk variability, strategies for optimizing neonatal diet

The composition of breast milk varies from mother to mother, and genetic factors may affect the levels of protective components in breast milk that could influence a newborn's outcomes.

5 Jun 2013

Research provides insights into potential new strategies to detect, treat and prevent breast cancer

New research provides critical insights into how normal breast precursor cells may be genetically vulnerable to develop into cancer. The research is published June 4th in the inaugural issue of Stem Cell Reports, an open-access journal from the International Society of Stem Cell Research published by Cell Press.

5 Jun 2013

Private companies get mixed marks on managed Medicaid

Atlanta Journal Constitution: 'Managed Medicaid' Gets Mixed Grades For-profit companies paid billions of taxpayer dollars to coordinate medical care for poor children and pregnant women on Medicaid excel at paperwork but fall short when it comes to improving the health of patients, a recent report concludes (Williams, 6/2).

4 Jun 2013

Gene expression test measures risk of metastases in breast cancer patients

In Austria every year approx. 1,500 postmenopausal patients, that is, after the climacteric period, are affected by stage II breast cancer. This means that in these women tumour cells have already been found in the lymph nodes and that the risk of metastases appearing in the future course of the illness is significantly increased.

4 Jun 2013

Viewpoints: Current insurance was made cheaper by turning away the sick; Even in Obama's Illinois, implementing changes is tough

Some people will find the new rules make insurance more expensive. That's in part because their health insurance was made cheap by turning away sick people. The new rules also won't allow for as much discrimination based on age or gender. The flip side of that, of course, is that many will suddenly find their health insurance is much cheaper, or they will find that, for the first time, they're not turned away when they try to buy health insurance (Ezra Klein, 6/1).

4 Jun 2013

State highlights: Calif. bill would fine big employers with employees on Medi-Cal; Abortion fight set in N.Y. Senate

For years, politicians and labor unions have pilloried Wal-Mart and other large employers for paying workers so little that many qualify for government health insurance at taxpayers' expense. Now critics fear the public will get stuck with an even bigger tab as California and other states expand Medicaid as part of the federal health care law.

4 Jun 2013

Early detection methods can help cure cervical cancer

Cervical cancer, a disease that will affect more than 12,000 women in the United States this year and more than a half million women worldwide, leads to significantly fewer deaths when effective early detection methods are available, either via a Pap smear or with a test for presence of the human papilloma virus.

4 Jun 2013

Court challenges, congressional charges and questions about key health law initiatives

The success of the healthcare law "depends on reaching everyone who is uninsured, but particularly young people who may feel like they don't need insurance," said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. Convincing them to spend money on insurance, he said, will be a "marketing challenge" (Gorman, 6/2).

4 Jun 2013

Study finds middle-aged women experience stress associated with psychosomatic symptoms

In four out of ten cases, long-term stress suffered by women leads to some form of physical complaint. This is shown by a study of 1,500 women carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

4 Jun 2013

Report: Weather conditions have no impact on fibromyalgia symptoms in female patients

Dutch researchers report that weather conditions including temperature, sunshine, and precipitation have no impact on fibromyalgia symptoms in female patients. Results published in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), suggest that individual patients may be sensitive to some changes in the weather.

4 Jun 2013

Interval between pregnancies: A golden window for obese women to lose weight

The time between pregnancies is a golden window for obese women to lose weight, a Saint Louis University study finds.

4 Jun 2013

African-American women carry inherited genetic mutations that increase their risk for breast cancer

A high percentage of African-American women with breast cancer who were evaluated at a university cancer-risk clinic were found to carry inherited genetic mutations that increase their risk for breast cancer.

4 Jun 2013

NewLink Genetics announces results from two clinical studies with indoximod

NewLink Genetics Corporation, an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company specializing in immunotherapy, today announced results from two clinical studies with indoximod, an orally administered small molecule drug candidate that inhibits the IDO pathway.

3 Jun 2013

NanoString's Prosigna Breast Cancer Assay can help identify node-positive early-stage breast cancer

NanoString Technologies, Inc., a privately held provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced new results from the combined data analysis of the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group 8 (ABCSG-8) and Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination studies.

From NanoString Technologies 3 Jun 2013

First Edition: June 3, 2013

Today's early morning highlights from major news organizations, including a number of stories detail health law implementation developments.

3 Jun 2013

GRACE study reports colored women are poorly represented in HIV drug trials

Enrollment of women in clinical trials of new anti-HIV drugs is extremely low, representing only about 15% of all treatment-experienced patients. For women of color it is even lower.

3 Jun 2013

ImmunoGen presents first clinical data of IMGN853 at ASCO annual meeting

ImmunoGen, Inc., a biotechnology company that develops anticancer therapeutics using its Targeted Antibody Payload ADC technology, today announced the presentation of the first clinical data with the Company's IMGN853 product candidate.

3 Jun 2013

Study finds HER2 irregularities in 14 different advanced solid tumors

The HER2 growth-factor gene is known to be over-active in breast and gastro-esophageal cancers. But now, irregularities in the genes's expression - among them mutations, amplifications, substitutions, and translocations - have been found in 14 different advanced solid tumors.

3 Jun 2013

Women's Health News

Thomson Reuters announces this year's Hottest Researchers

Treatment can restore satisfying sex life post menopause

Better understanding of breast milk variability, strategies for optimizing neonatal diet

Research provides insights into potential new strategies to detect, treat and prevent breast cancer

Private companies get mixed marks on managed Medicaid

Gene expression test measures risk of metastases in breast cancer patients

Viewpoints: Current insurance was made cheaper by turning away the sick; Even in Obama's Illinois, implementing changes is tough

State highlights: Calif. bill would fine big employers with employees on Medi-Cal; Abortion fight set in N.Y. Senate

Early detection methods can help cure cervical cancer

Court challenges, congressional charges and questions about key health law initiatives

Study finds middle-aged women experience stress associated with psychosomatic symptoms

Report: Weather conditions have no impact on fibromyalgia symptoms in female patients

Interval between pregnancies: A golden window for obese women to lose weight

African-American women carry inherited genetic mutations that increase their risk for breast cancer

NewLink Genetics announces results from two clinical studies with indoximod

NanoString's Prosigna Breast Cancer Assay can help identify node-positive early-stage breast cancer

First Edition: June 3, 2013

GRACE study reports colored women are poorly represented in HIV drug trials

ImmunoGen presents first clinical data of IMGN853 at ASCO annual meeting

Study finds HER2 irregularities in 14 different advanced solid tumors

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