Women At Risk Of Post Natal Depression May Be Identified By Blood TestResearchers at Warwick Medical School have discovered a way of identifying which women are most at risk of postnatal depression (PND) by checking for specific genetic variants. The findings could lead to the development of a simple, accurate blood test which checks for the likelihood of developing the condition...
Women Seen As Objects, Not People In Sexualized ImagesPerfume ads, beer billboards, movie posters: everywhere you look, women's sexualized bodies are on display. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that both men and women see images of sexy women's bodies as objects, while they see sexy-looking men as people...
Differences Seen In Brain Circuitry Between Women With Anorexia And Those With ObesityWhy does one person become anorexic and another obese? A study recently published by a University of Colorado School of Medicine researcher shows that reward circuits in the brain are sensitized in anorexic women and desensitized in obese women. The findings also suggest that eating behavior is related to brain dopamine pathways involved in addictions...
Post-Traumatic Stress After ICUWomen are more likely to suffer post-traumatic stress than men after leaving an intensive care unit (ICU), finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care. However, psychological and physical 'follow-up' can reduce both this and post-ICU depression...
Study Identifies Five Factors That Promote A Positive Body Image In WomenWomen with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the 'thin and beautiful' ideal have a more positive body image. That's according to a new study looking at five factors that may help young women to be more positive about their bodies, in the context of a society where discontent with appearance is common among women. The work by Dr...
Intrauterine Devices Better Than "The Morning After Pill" As Emergency ContraceptionA systematic review of 35 years of data published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction shows that intrauterine devices (IUDs), commonly known as a 'coil' should be routinely used as emergency contraception, given that their failure rate is less than one per thousand and because it has proven more effective than the "morning after pill"...
Fashion Anti-Malaria Garment That Wards Off BugsA Cornell University scientist and designer from Africa have together created a fashionable hooded bodysuit* embedded at the molecular level with insecticides for warding off mosquitoes infected with malaria, a disease estimated to kill 655,000 people annually on the continent...
The Sex And Age Of Athletes Affects Recovery From ConcussionsNew research out of Michigan State University reveals female athletes and younger athletes take longer to recover from concussions, findings that call for physicians and athletic trainers to take sex and age into account when dealing with the injury...
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