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People will gain significantly less weight by middle age – especially women – if they engage in moderate to vigorous activity nearly every day of the week starting as young adults, according to new Northwestern Medicine research. Women particularly benefitted from high activity over 20 years, gaining an average of 13 pounds less than those [...]
Working mothers are two-and-a-half times as likely as working fathers to interrupt their sleep to take care of others. That is the finding of a University of Michigan study providing the first known nationally representative data documenting substantial gender differences in getting up at night, mainly with babies and small children. And women are not [...]
Alzheimer’s disease affects twice as many women as it does men, according to a new report that portrays women as being “under siege” by the dreaded condition. Created in conjunction with California first lady Maria Shriver, “The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s” shows that two-thirds of the people living with Alzheimer’s are [...]
In celebration of National Diabetes Awareness Month, the Institute for Women’s Health Research focused its November 2010 e-newsletter on this topic. It is available free at IWHRenewsNov10-1.
The following press release about the Institute for Women’s Health Research at Northwestern University was issued today. If you want to learn more about us and what we are doing, check the link.
Between 2000 and 2007, the death rate of men treated in hospitals for stroke tumbled by 29 percent compared to a 24 percent decline for women, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Men’s faster decline in death rate widened the death rate disparity even more. [...]
In the largest human study to date on the topic, researchers have uncovered evidence of the possible influence of human sex hormones on the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction (ejection [...]
In the recent Institute of Medicine report that we blogged about a week ago, Women’s Health Research: Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise” it was reported that there has been a lot of progress in the areas of breast cancer, heart disease, and cervical cancer, in particularly, but less progress in areas where mortality was less of [...]
On September 27, 2010, the federal Office on Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) celebrated it’s 20th Anniversary at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Several of the former or current Congressional representatives who created the legislation to establish the ORWH were present to hear a summary of the progress made in the last [...]
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 [...]
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