Sentences with phrase «about women researchers»

Here's the interesting thing about women researchers: Once they hit their stride, they don't want to stop.

Not exact matches

What if instead of just asking about poker and bungee jumping, researchers added questions about risks that women more typically take, Morgenroth wondered.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

Researchers in Iowa interviewed some 500 women veterans about the risk factors that lead to rape.

The robust growth of these 12,700 majority women - owned companies (out of about 200,000 total, including the country's largest private companies and publicly traded brands) surprised the study's author, researcher Julie Weeks.

One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trauma.

But only relatively recently have researchers begun to understand the neuroendocrine and neurobiological changes brought about in human males (as in females) through proximity to infants and pregnant women, and through acts of caretaking.

As a twice - married and twice - divorced woman, I know what the researchers are talking about.

That proportion fell over time, but the majority of women continued to have reservations about breastfeeding for months after their baby's birth, researchers report Monday in Pediatrics.

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

Meanwhile, researchers in Chicago recruited about 90 women between the ages of 18 and 35.

Eligible women who received information from their caregiver were asked whether the researchers could contact them by telephone to give further information about the study.

Whatever the reasons, researchers say that most women are not well informed about their decision.

Researchers interviewed 155 women who experienced unexplained late stillbirths (after 28 weeks) about their sleep position both before pregnancy and in the last month, the last week, and the last night before their pregnancy ended.

There is, however, some controversy here, because when researchers stuck microphones in pregnant women's uteruses for a 1990 study I'm glad I wasn't a part of, they found that fetuses are exposed to between 72 and 88 decibels of baseline noise in the womb — the latter being about as loud as the maximum output of the white - noise machines tested in the study.

Researchers also found that most new mothers have learned about breast milk sharing through friends or relatives — with a small number sharing milk with both — but few women may be discussing the option with their physician before doing so.

It should be read by every medical student, every midwife, every childbirth educator, every sociologist of childbirth, every researcher, every woman who is picking her way through the minefield of decisions that need to be made about obstetric care.

Additionally, researchers also found that prescribing preventive antidepressants for this group of women did not affect the risk for developing postpartum depression, and also that a better predictor of postpartum depression were clinical interviews with the women about work activities, insomnia and suicidality.

Ten years ago, researchers used data from the Listening to Women survey to examine associations between childbirth education and knowledge about childbirth interventions.3 The results were disappointing, women who attended childbirth education were no more likely to have knowledge of the risks of interventions than women who did not take claWomen survey to examine associations between childbirth education and knowledge about childbirth interventions.3 The results were disappointing, women who attended childbirth education were no more likely to have knowledge of the risks of interventions than women who did not take clawomen who attended childbirth education were no more likely to have knowledge of the risks of interventions than women who did not take clawomen who did not take classes.

University of Adelaide researchers have found that women on antidepressant medication are more successful at breastfeeding their babies if they keep taking the medication, compared with women who quit antidepressants because of concerns about their babies» health.

Researchers questioned 13,500 men and women aged between 20 and 45 from each country about gender, housework and childcare responsibilities.

Countries communicate more efficiently about common medical problems thanks to her, and researchers know that drugs — and viruses — that appear to have little or no side - effects on pregnant women can be devastating to their developing babies.

Young women enrolled in high schools and colleges told Washington State University researchers that people routinely make sexual comments, both in - person and online, about them and their bodies.

The researchers estimated that among 10,000 women in their 40s who undergo annual mammography for 10 years, about 190 will be diagnosed with breast cancer.

«Using online health forums to serve underserved communities: Researchers find few people over 65 use online health forums, while women use sites to talk about conditions and men prefer to talk about health news.»

These and other findings from a new study conducted by researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, offer the first clinical recommendations for making diagnostic decisions about headaches in pregnant women.

The researchers estimated that more than 106,000 high - risk early preterm births could be avoided in the U.S. and about 1,100 could be prevented in Australia each year if pregnant women took daily supplements of the omega fatty acid.

Little, however, is known about the prevalence of concussions among teens in the United States, said Phil Veliz, a researcher at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

The researchers asked the couples to complete their own time diaries for a workday and a non-workday during the third trimester of the woman's pregnancy and about three months after the baby's birth.

In 2004, researchers published results of the WHI study of estrogen - only therapy, taken for about seven years by women who had had their uteruses surgically removed.

What's more, by asking the participants to rate their self - confidence, the researchers provided further insight into what specifically about the speed - dating setup led both men and women to be more selective when they were seated.

The researchers analyzed more than 1,200 papers about women's underrepresentation in STEM, and from those identified 10 factors that impact gender differences in students» interest and participation in STEM.

The researchers found that 56 per cent of the women who had fluorescent tattoos felt better about their bodies one month after treatment, compared to only 14 per cent among those who received black ink tattoos.

Each participant went on about 12 dates, but the researchers changed the rules: in seven of the events, the women approached the men, so overall both genders approached each other about equally.

Researchers surveyed those women again after they had reviewed the fact sheet and found significant improvement in knowing about contraceptives.

The number of veterans at risk is large: traumatic brain injury caused by explosive blasts is thought to afflict about 20 percent of the 2.3 million servicemen and women deployed in combat since 2001, according to a team of researchers from Boston University, New York Medical College and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.

He commends the report's emphasis on advising on nonacademic careers: «I think young women researchers — but men, too — would benefit if professors could be a little less snobby about assuming that academia should be the default first choice for all their students.»

The survey did not ask about using the pill to treat less common medical problems such as hirsutism (unwanted, male - pattern hair growth in women), menstrual migraines and fibroids, so researchers noted their numbers may underestimate the number of women who use the pill for reasons besides pregnancy prevention.

In the UK, about 50 pregnant and postnatal women develop life - threatening severe maternal sepsis (infection of the blood or «blood poisoning») for every woman who dies from the condition, according to a study from UK researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have uncovered a cellular signal in the amniotic fluid around the fetus that builds up when a pregnant woman is about to go into labor.

«Part of what was exciting about the design of this clinical trial is that we decided early on to accept women from a younger and generally sicker population than is typically enrolled in clinical trials,» says Dr. Cristofanilli, who is also a researcher at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University.

«Over 90 percent of women and 70 percent of men were trainees or employees at the time that they were targeted,» the researchers wrote about the new research.

In the Hereditary Ovarian Cancer Clinical Study, researchers from Canada, the United States, Poland, Norway, Austria, France, and Italy identified women with BRCA mutations from an international registry, 5,787 of whom completed questionnaires about their reproductive history, surgical history (including preventive oophorectomy and mastectomy), and hormone use.

The researchers asked the women about potential symptoms of mood disorders, whether they had received treatment and, if not, factors that may have kept them from doing so.

For treatment, that knowledge could make a huge impact: not only should researchers be better about testing potential migraine drugs on men and women separately, Maleki says, but they may be able to design new treatments based on these brain differences — giving both sexes a better chance at relief.

Now, a researcher from the University of Missouri has found that men and women do not think about investment risks differently.

Researchers compared data from nearly 4,000 men and women aged between 16 and 24, taken from Natsal - 3, conducted 2010 - 2012, with that from previous surveys in 1990 - 91 and 1999 - 2001, to see how sources of information about sex have changed.

The researchers studied 4,193 pregnant women; about half of the subjects received a flu vaccine; the other half received a vaccine for meningitis.

A new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers provides insight into how much women of reproductive age in the United States know about reproductive health.

But that is a hypothesis the new study could not test, because the researchers did not have information about the sex of the women's offspring.