Sentences with phrase «based women researchers»

The L'Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science program is a national awards program that annually recognizes and rewards five U.S. - based women researchers at the beginning of their scientific careers.

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Because ACOG has created its position on home births based on much of the data from Wax's meta analysis, the researchers warn that physicians and women who are considering home births and using this study as a reference for their decisions are not getting reliable information and may not be making a well informed decision.

Based on their findings, however, the researchers believe that women who carry either BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 should be aware that they may be at higher risk of infertility and early menopause, and consider having children sooner.

In the first study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee - Womens Research Institute (MWRI) have devised a cell - based model of the human placenta that could help explain how pathogens that cause birth defects, such as Zika virus, cross from mother to unborn child.

In 2009, based on evidence that the benefit - risk ratio for mammography screening is higher among women over 50 and with less frequent screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reversed its previous recommendation of mammography every one to two years beginning at age 40, and recommended routine screening every two years starting at age 50, the researchers noted.

To find out more, UK - based researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Greenwich reviewed 24 publications reporting breast cancer screening practices in women with mental illness (around 700,000), and five studies investigating screening for those in distress but who had not been diagnosed with a mental illness (nearly 21,500).

The researchers found no significant difference between men and women based on the bone mineral density of the femur.

Researchers [Tyler Owens, Mark Allen and Diane Spangler, Personality and Individual Differences, http://bit.ly/aCnszw] at Brigham Young University studied women who seemed to have no major body image issues, based on a standard psychological assessment.

In fact, researchers were able to use a computer algorithm to identify which women were new mothers based solely on their patterns of gray matter loss.

Researchers conducted a population - based perspective birth cohort study of 7,046 pregnant women, and categorized subjects into three groups: negative anti-tTG (control), intermediate anti-tTG (just below the clinical cut - off point used to diagnose patients with celiac disease) and positive anti-tTG (highly probable celiac disease patients).

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.

Based on their findings, the researchers led by Hutcheon suggest that women with obesity not gain any weight until mid-pregnancy or later, and break down their recommendations by class I obesity (BMI ≥ 30), class II obesity (BMI 35 - 39.9) and class III obesity (BMI ≥ 40).

To determine the genetic basis for his exceptional response, researchers at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and elsewhere performed targeted and whole - exome sequencing on his leukemic cells.

The studies, led by a team of researchers from Drexel University and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH), are the first to describe the HIV care continuum postpartum and the first to use population - based data to evaluate viral suppression rates of HIV - infected pregnant women at delivery.

The researchers from the Department of Sociology based their findings on the time diaries of men and women from 16 developed countries from 1961 to the present, collected as the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS).

In addition to a broad - based analysis, the researchers took a closer look at those who had heart attacks, pneumonia, appendicitis, heart bypasses, total knee replacement or spinal fusion procedures, and women who gave birth.

Based on data from the large H70 and women's population studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg Center for Aging and Health (AgeCap) have examined the sexual attitudes of senior citizens and identified the factors that determine whether or not they remain sexually active.

Based on their findings, the researchers write that doctors should pay particular attention to obesity screening for women of Asian descent.

Because men and women compete separately and because men have physiological advantages, the researchers compared runners based on their ability compared to others of their sex.

The researchers found that men in survey and experimental data were more likely than women to avoid cross-party political discussion, to judge political arguments based solely on what party is advancing them, and to form strong political opinions about the opposite party's positions without actually listening to the other side's reasoning.

In a paper appearing the week of Sept. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Duke University, the University of Pittsburgh and Magee Womens Research Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrate a better method based on «acoustofluidics,» a combination of acoustics and microfluidics.

In the past decade, researchers have developed prenatal tests for gender and Rh blood group based on testing for mutations in fragments of fetal DNA circulating in the blood of pregnant women (Science, 2 September 2005, p. 1476).

«Older women considering implant - based reconstruction should be assured that their age is not a factor in determining the risk of complications,» the researchers write.

A team of researchers based in Canada wanted to find out whether the stage at which breast cancer is diagnosed — and post-diagnosis survival — differed between women with and without cosmetic breast implants.

Given those findings, the researchers say, about 46 percent of women with breast cancer who are classified as high risk based on clinical factors might not need chemo.

SEATTLE, Feb. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Danish researchers used the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Assay risk of recurrence (ROR) score to accurately predict rates of 10 - year distant recurrence (DR) of cancer in a comprehensive and population - based cohort including all postmenopausal women in Denmark with early - stage hormone receptor (HR)- positive, Her - 2 negative breast cancer who received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy according to nationwide guidelines between 2000 and 2003.

The researchers found that minority women are more likely to have aggressive subtypes of breast cancer and were less likely to receive guidelines - based standard of care as compared to non-Hispanic white women.

While women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or may become pregnant are often excluded from clinical trials for type 2 diabetes drugs, the exclusion is not based on the risk of fetal harm, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

For this study, researchers collected data from over 28,000 women who received gonadotropin - based fertility therapy.

Women who spent eight weeks in a mindfulness - based stress - reduction (MBSR) course saw a 20 % improvement in sleep disturbances, according to Duke Integrative Medicine researchers.

In 2014, researchers from nine institutions, including the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Michigan, concluded that BPA is a «reproductive toxicant,» based on studies showing that it reduced egg quality in women undergoing in vitro fertilization — and said there's strong evidence that it's toxic to the uterus as well.

Goldstein and her fellow researchers are also working on a clinical risk tool that can help pinpoint men and women who are at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease based on genetic factors and other clinical characteristics.

After examining each individual's physical health and VO2 max (maximal oxygen uptake), which is the maximum amount of oxygen a person can make use of while exercising, the researchers customized training programs for each woman based on her fitness level.

These researchers also point out that based on the results of lab studies looking at how myo - inositol and D - chiro inositol ratios are balanced in the ovary tissue of women with PCOS (Heimark et al. 201410), it's possible that using an overwhelming amount of myo - inositol over D - chiro - inositol in a 40:1 ratio could «exert paradoxical effects».

Based on these results, the researchers suggest that cinnamon extract seems to have a moderate effect in reducing fasting glucose levels in diabetic patients and possibly, women with PCOS.

BTW, who are the women researchers or publicly - oriented female authors, doctors, etc. in this Plant - based world of education and practice?

After adjusting for body mass index (BMI — an estimate of body fat based on height and weight) and lifestyle factors such as diet and smoking, the researchers found that black women who worked night shifts for 10 or more years still had a 23 percent increased risk of developing diabetes.

Newer data, based on calcium balance studies in which researchers make detailed measurements of the calcium going in and out of people, suggest that the calcium requirement for men and women is lower than previously estimated.

In the study, researchers filmed women walking for four minutes in heels and in flat shoes, then asked men and women to judge them based on attractiveness and femininity.

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Photo: Flickr, CC «Women living in the areas with the highest levels of pollution were almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer» A study recently published by researchers based in Montréal, Canada, has found a worrying correlation between markers

Based on these findings, the researchers are advocating for auto manufacturers to examine how safety features can be enhanced to offer better protection to women.

suburban Boston MA, US About Blog Allison has beauty ideas for women over 40 based on her 20 years traveling around the U.S. as a focus group moderator and market researcher talking to women about what's important to them when it comes to beauty and beauty products.

Through a successful international collaboration, the researchers have developed an interactive, web - based treatment targeted to women with postnatal depression (PND).

In another study from University of British Columbia, participants were asked to rate pictures based solely on gut sexual attraction and not which person would make the best boyfriend or girlfriend.2 The researchers asked over 1,000 women to rate the pictures» sexual attractiveness and found that women were least attracted to smiling, happy men.

Based on the responses, researchers learned that iPhone users are more likely to be younger, extroverted, more likely to view their phone as a status object, and are more than twice as likely to be a woman.