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Going red: raising awareness of heart disease in women
Date: Feb-06-2015Today marks National Wear Red Day, raising awareness for heart disease in women. While often associated with older men, it is the leading killer of women in the US.
Woman becomes obese after fecal transplantation from overweight donor
Date: Feb-06-2015A new case report reveals how a woman who underwent a fecal microbiota transplantation from an overweight donor rapidly gained weight herself after the procedure.
Women with type 1 diabetes 'twice as likely' as men to die from heart disease
Date: Feb-06-2015A meta-analysis of 26 studies covering the period 1966-2014 finds that women with type 1 diabetes have a much higher risk of death than men with this condition.
New drug delivery device 'could transform cancer treatment'
Date: Feb-06-2015A device that uses an electrical field to drive drugs deep inside solid tumors that are difficult to treat could make more cancer patients eligible for life-saving surgeries.
'Soft micro-robots' could do biopsies, deliver drugs
Date: Feb-06-2015Scientists are making self-folding microgrippers of stiff hydrogel embedded with iron nanoparticles for use as magnetically-guided, soft micro-robots for biopsy and drug delivery.
Study links coffee intake with reduced risk of endometrial cancer
Date: Feb-06-2015Consuming three or four cups of coffee a day could reduce a woman's risk of endometrial cancer by up to 19%, according to new research.
How oyster mushrooms could aid treatment for autoimmune diseases
Date: Feb-06-2015For the first time, researchers have visualized how a protein in oyster mushrooms punches holes in parasites to kill them - a process that also occurs in the human immune response.
Breast cancer: two new genetic risk factors uncovered
Date: Feb-06-2015A huge international collaboration investigating the genes of tens of thousands of women has uncovered genetic variants on chromosome 9 associated with higher breast cancer risk.
Stress levels are down, but money worries continue to trouble Americans
Date: Feb-05-2015An American Psychological Association survey of more than 3,000 Americans finds that financial concerns are the main driver of modern stress, despite an improving economy.
Are ongoing concerns about vaccine safety to blame for the measles epidemic?
Date: Feb-05-2015This year looks set to hold the highest number of measles cases since the virus was declared eliminated in the US. Are concerns about vaccine safety to blame? We investigate.
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