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No evidence that black cohosh relieves menopause symptoms

Although many women coping with hot flashes and other distressing symptoms of menopause have turned to black cohosh supplements as a treatment alternative, a new review by the Cochrane Library finds no evi ...

Health created Sep 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New hope for thousands of women with most aggressive breast cancer

(Medical Xpress)—Scientists at The University of Nottingham have identified a protein which could help predict survival outcomes for women with the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.

Cancer created Sep 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study links age, insurance, but not race, to chemo rates

(HealthDay) -- For women with breast cancer, disease characteristics correlate significantly with chemotherapy receipt, with no indication of racial barriers to treatment, according to a study published online ...

Cancer created Aug 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More education, socioeconomic benefits equals longer life

Despite advances in health care and increases in life expectancy overall, Americans with less than a high school education have life expectancies similar to adults in the 1950s and 1960s.

Health created Aug 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Even with insurance, racial disparities in breast cancer treatment persist

More White women are diagnosed with breast cancer than Black women, yet Black women with breast cancer have a higher mortality rate. One potential explanation for this disparity is delayed treatment, perhaps ...

Cancer created Jul 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Race might play role in success of weight-loss surgery

(HealthDay) -- Black women without diabetes lost about 10 percent less weight than white women after having a weight-loss procedure called gastric bypass surgery, but having diabetes helped increase their ...

Surgery created Jun 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lifespan gap shrinks between whites, blacks

(HealthDay) -- The gap in life expectancy between U.S. whites and blacks narrowed between 2003 and 2008, yet significant disparities remain, a new study finds.

Health created Jun 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reveals sarcoidosis-related mortality rates among black women

A new study conducted by researchers from Boston University has found that sarcoidosis accounts for 25 percent of all deaths among women in the Black Women's Health Study who have the disease. The study is the largest epidemiologic ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many women still smoke during pregnancy

(HealthDay) -- Too many American women still smoke during their pregnancies, a new report finds, and rates of such smoking vary widely depending on race.

Health created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Black women leaders approved for assertiveness in the workplace

While white men are expected to be assertive and aggressive leaders, black men and white women are often penalized for that kind of behavior in the workplace. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Perception of breast cancer care differs from actual care quality

(HealthDay) -- The perception of care for women living in inner cities with newly diagnosed, early-stage breast cancer is dependent, in large part, on factors other than the actual quality of care provided, ...

Cancer created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most americans getting adequate amounts of vitamins, nutrients

(HealthDay) -- Most people in the United States are getting adequate nutrition, but some groups experience lower levels of vital nutrients than that which is recommended for good health, according to the Second ...

Health created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blacks have trouble clearing cervical cancer virus

Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the virus that causes the disease.

Cancer created Apr 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Black women, uninsured get worse ovarian cancer care: study

(HealthDay) -- Women with ovarian cancer who are black, either uninsured or Medicare recipients, or who have annual incomes of less than $35,000 are more likely to receive poorer-quality care, a new study ...

Cancer created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HIV rates for black women in parts of the US much higher than previously estimated

Study results released today indicate that the HIV incidence rate for US women living in areas hardest hit by the epidemic is much higher than the overall estimated incidence rate in the US for black adolescent and adult ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0