Women's Health Weekly articles

Recent articles from Women's Health Weekly

Could hormones explain gender differences in neurological disease?
July 2, 2009... Neurological diseases including Parkinson's, Tourette's, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer's, and schizophrenia are all associated with alterations in dopamine-driven function involving the dopamine transporter (DAT). Research published in the open access journal BMC...

Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception.
July 2, 2009... Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according to the study "Changing Behavior Risk for Pregnancy Among High...

Young adults not drinking enough milk.
July 2, 2009... Calcium and dairy products play major roles in health maintenance and the prevention of chronic disease. Because peak bone mass is not achieved until the third decade of life, it is particularly important for young adults to consume adequate amounts of calcium, protein and vitamin D found in...

Single women gaze longer.
July 2, 2009... In the study[sup.1], published in the March issue of Human Nature, women both with and without sexual partners showed little difference in their subjective ratings of photos of men when considering such measures as masculinity and attractiveness. However, the women who did not have sexual...

Research results from K.H. Kim and co-authors update knowledge of adenocarcinoma.
July 2, 2009... "The aim of the present study was to determine the expression profile of the hedgehog (Hh) signaling molecules in normal, hyperplastic, and carcinomatous uterine endometrium. For this purpose, 271 endometrial tissue samples, (62 of normal endometrium, 127 of endometrial hyperplasias, and 82...