Study reveals extent of impact on health from human trafficking
Survivors of human trafficking reveal the extent of their poor living and working conditions, accompanied with various associated health problems in a new study. …read more
Teen girls from rural areas more likely to have undiagnosed asthma, be depressed
Teen girls who live in rural areas are more likely than their male counterparts to have undiagnosed asthma, and they often are at a higher risk of depression, according to researchers at the Medical… …read more
Metformin Prevents Type 2 Diabetes After Gestational Diabetes
Metformin and intensive lifestyle intervention both halt progression to diabetes among women with a history of gestational diabetes; strangely, though, metformin flops for women who didn’t have GDM. Medscape Medical News …read more
Preconception Bariatric Surgery May Cut Risks for Mom, Fetus
Obese women who undergo bariatric surgery before pregnancy have reduced risk for gestational diabetes and large-for-gestational-age infants, but risk for other adverse effects may be increased. Medscape Medical News …read more
Women’s heart disease should be a research priority
The latest gender-specific research on heart disease continues to show differences between women and men, yet gaps remain in how to best diagnose, treat and prevent this number one killer of women… …read more
Younger women delay seeking help for heart attacks, study finds
Younger women may ignore or dismiss the earliest symptoms of an impending heart attack, such as pain and dizziness, and delay seeking emergency medical care. …read more
Scientists find cancer weak spots for new targeted drugs
Scientists have identified weak spots in cancer cells that could be targeted and attacked by new precision drugs. …read more
Britain Becomes First Nation to Legalize Three-Parent Babies
Britain will become the first nation to legalize a “three-parent” IVF technique which doctors say can prevent inherited incurable diseases but which critics fear will lead to “designer babies”. Reuters Health Information …read more
Baby formula poses higher arsenic risk to newborns than breast milk, Dartmouth study shows
In the first U.S. study of urinary arsenic in babies, Dartmouth College researchers found that formula-fed infants had higher arsenic levels than breast-fed infants, and that breast milk itself… …read more
Interventions lower diabetes risk in women who had gestational diabetes
Medication, lifestyle changes slow diabetes progression in at-risk populationWomen with a history of gestational diabetes face a heightened risk of developing Type 2 diabetes for years after… …read more