UVA Health researchers have developed a powerful new tool to understand how medications affect men and women differently, and that will help lead to safer, more effective drugs in the future.
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Female kidneys are known to be more resilient to disease and injury, but males need not despair. A new USC Stem Cell-led study published in Developmental Cell describes not only how sex hormones drive differences in male ...
Sep 5, 2023
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Taking piroxicam, an anti-inflammatory medication commonly used for arthritis pain, at the same time as the levonorgestrel emergency contraceptive pill after unprotected sex prevents significantly more pregnancies compared ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Associated with poorer mental health outcomes and reduced quality of life, obesity is on the rise in the United States. Currently, more than 30% of American adults are classified as obese. A risk factor for several diseases, ...
Jul 25, 2023
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A new study of genetic risks for cognitive impairment later in life uses data from 32,426 research participants aged 60 and older to elaborate risk across sex and across the intersection of sex and race. The study, the largest ...
Jul 21, 2023
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The age of those who are distressed because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity—known as gender dysphoria—has been steadily falling, reveals research published in the open access journal ...
Jun 26, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative illness with genetic and environmental origins. Females experience faster cognitive decline and cerebral atrophy than males, while males have greater mortality rates. ...
May 20, 2023
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From humans to plants to single-cell organisms, there's a protein that rules them all.
May 19, 2023
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Evolution depends on genes being passed down through the generations via reproduction, and same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring.
May 17, 2023
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Phenotypic sex differences are common in many aspects of health and disease. Despite the success of genome-wide association studies in improving the understanding of how genetic variation contributes to the manifestation ...
May 12, 2023
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