Sentences with phrase «american women studied»

An American women studied medicine at a college in Africa, only to discover upon returning to the US that the school was not accredited and she was not eligible to sit the medical board exams.

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A new study by the American Association of University Women sheds some light on the gender wage gap by examining the earnings of men and women one year post-graduaWomen sheds some light on the gender wage gap by examining the earnings of men and women one year post-graduawomen one year post-graduation.

The study's findings about more than 1,000 Latin American / Hispanic women ages 25 to 60 revealed that 91 percent of respondents surveyed considered buying a home the best financial investment they could make.

The study showed that on average, American women grew just five centimeters over the century to 163.5 cm — or two inches, to about 5» 4» on average, while men grew about 6 cm, to approximately 177.1 cm or 5» 8».

In a study of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007, published by the American Journal of Epidemiology, a group of researchers found that mortality was more common in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying conditions.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) even released a statement about the miscarriage study, saying that all pregnant women should still get the flu shot.

A study finds more than half of American women would rather give up sex than their mobile devices.

Interestingly, the study found that millennial men are more interested than women in owning their own business, and African - Americans are more likely to have entrepreneurial dreams than Hispanics or whites.

I can't find statistics, but studies have shown that LDS woman (and men) are more highly educated than the national average, and are more likely to have college degrees than the average American.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

American studies, biblical literature and Reinhold Niebuhr's social ethics focus on careerism, are issues consuming attention on American campuses, especially at predominantly women's colleges.

Ana Ligia Sánchez and Osmundo Ponce present the results of their study of women in Pentecostal churches in several Latin American countries.

The study found that close friendship with a man or a woman is rarely experienced by American men (Levinson 1978).

Krister Stendahl gave voice to this in his important essay The Bible and the Role of Women: A Case Study in Hermeneutics written in 1958.6 Donald Dayton expressed a similar position in his article in the Post American: «the real question - at least for most Christians [is]: Which of these views (the hierarchical or the egalitarian — or perhaps a synthesis of the two) has the clearer grounding in scripture?

The study also found men, people who live in cities and non-white Americans are more likely to embrace other worldviews than women, people living in suburbs and rural areas and white Americans.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Steinfels notes that the Protestants studied are in «a church that ordains married men and women; does not condemn contraception, abortion, or remarriage after divorce; is inclusive in its criteria for membership; prides itself on affirming American values; and emphasizes democratic decision making and the laity's right to participate in congregational spending, selecting pastors, and determining official church positions.

This is America: the Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah, the Disabled American Veterans, the Order of AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Business and Professional Women of America, the union hall, the Bible study group, LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens), «Holy Name» — a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Informed by cutting - edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced life - changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

In response to «Fructose - Rich Beverages and Risk of Gout in Women,» a study published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Richard Adamson, former director, Division of Cancer Etiology and scientific director, National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health; former vice president of Scientific and Technical Affairs for the American Beverage Association; current president of TPN Associates, LLC, and consultant to the American Beverage Association, said:

On average 10 of American women are iron deficient with one recent study suggested that more than half (56 %) of recreational joggers and competitive runners suffer from an iron deficiency that may negatively affect performance.

The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists emphasized the results of the Wax study in its official statement on homebirth, siting that «Women inquiring about planned home birth should be informed of its risks and benefits based on recent evidence.

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

In fact, a 2013 study in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation found that about 60 percent to 70 percent of women had longer and wider feet post-pregnancy.

Studies show breastfeeding lowers the risk of obesity, cancer, and chronic diseases — many of which disproportionately impact African American women — in mothers, as well as helps protect children against a host of ailments, including respiratory infections, asthma and childhood leukemia.

of Vermont («Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of North American Midwives»); Jess Fallon, Women's Studies, Wesleyan; Pamela Klassen, Religion, Drew University (spirituality in home birth); Maureen May, Syracuse University (midwifery politics and legislation in New York state); Christina Player (midwifery politics in Massachusetts); Melissa Denmark, University of Florida (the development of direct - entry midwifery legislation in Florida); Fern McGill, Antioch University (an investigation of feminist positions on childbirth), Kate Masley (the political economy of reproduction in Honduras and in Cleveland, Ohio), and others not listed here; and as an informal advisor to dozens more.

The study, published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) surveyed 1,000 pregnant women and 1,000 new moms.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal, followed 5,418 women expecting to deliver at home in 2000 with the aid of midwives certified by the North American Registry of Midwives.

This particular meta - study reported that breastfeeding provides up to a 28 % decrease in risk of developing breast cancer at any age (pre - or post-menopausal) for women without a family history of the disease, who breastfed for 12 months or longer (World Cancer Research Fund and American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007).

One famous Latin American study comparing reclining to vertical positions showed that labors for women who stayed upright were 36 percent shorter for first - time mothers and 25 percent shorter for mothers who had previously given birth.

According to studies that were conducted by the American Academy of Periodontists, if you have a gum disease, then your chances of having an underweight or a premature baby is four times more likely as compared to a woman who has healthy gums.

The purpose of this study was to examine perinatal outcomes between Asian American and Pacific Islander subgroups.This is a retrospective study of all Asian American / Pacific Islander women who were delivered at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 to 2003.

A 2013 study on the transfer of drugs into human milk, published in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) News & Journal, explains how women who are advised to stop nursing when taking medications are given this advice because of the largely errant belief that the drugs may have negative effects on their babies.

In fact, according to a study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated, participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»

Most women (70 of 101; 69 % of the total study population) were African American.

Studies show that the use of such interventions is a significant concern to American women.

Although the IFPS II over sampled disadvantaged mothers (illiterate, non-English speaking, very low - income, very low education and without a stable home) compared to IFPS I, the results of our study may best describe practices of middle class American mothers rather than of disadvantaged American mothers [28]; thus, results can not be generalized to all women in the United States.

That 2005 Economic Journal study of American women who returned to work within 12 weeks showed that infants whose mothers went back even earlier were likely to have more behavioral problems and lower cognitive test scores at age 4.

«They failed to report a single study citing the extent to which American women are initiating C - sections and revealed only «limited evidence» suggesting that mother - requested cesarean deliveries are what are spiking the rise,» says Corry.

In a study published by The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2004, researchers concluded that non-breastfeeding women actually lose body fat faster than nursing mothers.

«We've reached a point in time where partisanship trumps virtually everything else in terms of cuing voters as to how they should assess candidates,» said Jennifer Lawless, a professor at American University who studies women in politics.

A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has determined that poorer childhood cognition occurred, particularly in memory and learning, when pregnant women or their offspring consumed greater quantities of sugar.

The study, published in Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) surveyed 1,000 pregnant women and 1,000 new moms.

The case - control study, published online in of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, used a large clinical database of electronic medical records to collect detailed data of cutaneous melanomas developing in 462 women aged 49 years or younger.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is not only applicable to Chinese women with PCOS; the results are also relevant to women around the world, Legro explained.

It is, rather, a retention problem: Several studies, including one published in September 2008 in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), have found that substantially more women than men drop out before completing their M.D. - Ph.

Dr. Rositch adds, «It will be important to clarify in future studies whether the continued increase in cervical cancer rates with age and the higher rates in African - American women represent a failure in our screening programs or a failure of the women to be screened so that appropriate interventions can be applied.»

Heterosexual white women are twice as likely as racial or sexual minority women to obtain medical help to get pregnant, according to a recent study published by the American Psychological Association.

Cervical cancer rates in the United States are higher than previously believed, particularly among 65 - to 69 - year - old women and African - American women, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published in the journal Cancer.

Expectant mothers need not be concerned that they are more prone to develop melanoma, or will have a worse prognosis if they do get this serious skin cancer, than women who are not pregnant, according to study results published online as an «article in press» on the Journal of the American College of Surgeons website ahead of print publication.