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New Report Evaluates Progress in Women’s Health
September 28, 2010 – 1:48 pm
A new report by the Institute of Medicine issued on Sept. 23, concludes that there has been some progress in women’s health over the past two decades especially in lessening the burden of disease and reduced deaths among women in the areas of cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and cervical cancer, specifically. The effort has yielded [...]
Sex Differences in Stress Hormone Receptors
September 17, 2010 – 9:02 am
An understanding why women experience more stress-related mental disorders like depression and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has eluded scientists but a new study in rat brains may help explain why women are more prone to mood and anxiety disorders than men. In order to better understand this study, I found it helpful to look [...]
National Institutes of Health Celebrates Women’s Health
September 13, 2010 – 2:28 pm
The National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a day-long symposium on Monday, Sept. 27, in Bethesda, Maryland. Discussed will be highlights of early accomplishments in women’s health research, as well as a preview of the next decade A Vision for the Year 2020. Many [...]
Sex, Science, and Salaries
July 13, 2010 – 4:11 pm
A recent post on the Oncofertility Consortium Blog discussed gender disparities in the senior levels of scientific research. Women receive 56% of science and engineering undergraduate degrees and are awarded more than 40% of graduate degrees in the sciences, often a PhD. However, they make up only 22% of senior academic faculty members in the [...]
August is National Psoriasis Awareness Month!
August 10, 2009 – 3:03 pm
Currently 4% of women enrolled in the Illinois Womens Health Registry suffer from this skin condition that causes itchy or sore red patches of skin with silvery scales. Psoriasis occurs when the normal life cycle of skin cells is accelerated by the immune system, causing buildup of dead skin cells, which form the thick, silvery [...]
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