Clinical Trial Offers Hope To Thousands Of Women With Incontinence And Could Save The NHS Millions Pounds Per Year Tens of thousands of women every day suffer from the misery of stress incontinence, a condition which costs the NHS in excess of £400m a year to treat. Now a new clinical trial of a simple medical device offers hope to women worldwide.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWorkers' Mental And Physical Health Influenced By Gender Of Supervisor A person's gender in a leadership role is associated with their subordinate's mental and physical
health according to new research out of the University of Toronto. The study conducted by Scott Schieman, a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto and Taralyn McMullen, a PhD candidate, involved data from a 2005 sample of 1,800 working adults in the United States.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLink Discovered Between A Mother's Stress And Her Child Becoming Overweight A mother's stress may contribute to her young children being overweight in low income households with sufficient food, according to a new Iowa State University study that is published in the September issue of Pediatrics, the professional journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The study analyzed data collected from 841 children in 425 households in the 1999-2002 National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMore Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention, Education Efforts Needed To Reach Black, Hispanic Girls, Women, Letter Says An "otherwise excellent" editorial recently published by the New York Times did not "mention the rapid spread of HIV among women and girls of color," Tracie Gardner, director of New York state policy and coordinator of the Women's Initiative To Stop HIV-New York at the
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSenate Finance Committee Members Push For Compromise On Mental Health Parity Legislation The Senate Finance Committee has begun discussing potential funding offsets for a compromise on mental
health parity legislation passed by the House and Senate earlier in the 110th Congress, CongressDaily reports. Lawmakers reached an
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFertility Preservation Using Cryopreservation Techniques Emerging cryopreservation techniques are increasing hope of restoring fertility for women after diseases such as ovarian cancer that lead to destruction of reproductive tissue. The same techniques can also be used to maintain stocks of farm animals, and protect against extinction of endangered animal species by maintaining banks of ovarian tissue or even nascent embryos that can used to produce offspring at some point in the future.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comOpinion Pieces Discuss Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Rights, Motherhood Several newspapers recently published opinion pieces about Republican vice presidential nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's views on abstinence-only education and abortion rights. Opinion pieces also discussed the pregnancy of Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, and criticism Palin has faced for choosing to run for vice president as a working mother. Summaries appear below.~ Barbara Amiel,
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDepressed College Students Benefit From Study A pilot program called the College Screening Project, a suicide prevention outreach program, was successful in identifying and treating college students with severe depression and feelings of desperation that may have led to suicide. The study, supported by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), was conducted with Emory University students over six college semesters from 2002-2005.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSexual Harassment 10 Times More Likely In Casual And Contract Jobs Women employed in casual and contract jobs are up to ten times more likely to experience unwanted sexual advances than those in permanent full time positions, a University of Melbourne study has found.
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