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Pregnant women, new mothers should watch for signs of peripartum cardiomyopathy.

The research identified antibodies from a woman's immune system that prevent infection-fighting T cells from moving through her blood stream and entering her body's organs to attack invaders such as bacteria or ...

Health officials say the death of a Minnesota woman has been linked tothe nationwide salmonella outbreak and now the infection may havecontributed to seven deaths. Officials say the woman was in her 80s and lived at a long-term care facility.

Women with low levels of sexual desire, often as a result of menopause, are more likely to be depressed and to suffer physical symptoms such as back pain and memory problems than women who report higher levels of desire, according to a new study.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The number of deaths related to the U.S. outbreak of salmonella has risen to seven with the death of a Minnesota woman in her 80s.

Health officials say the death of a Minnesota woman has been linked to the nationwide salmonella outbreak and now the infection ...

A soap-opera style project is designed to change attitudes about safe sex among young women.

Objective: To investigate whether the functional changes in pain disorder might be reflected by structural brain changes. Pain disorder assessed with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) criteria is characterized by persistent and distressing chronic pain at one or more body sites which cannot be fully explained by a physiological process or somatic disorder. Psychological factors are thought to play a major role. Recent neuroimaging studies evidenced altered pain processing in patients suffering from this disorder.Methods: Fourteen right-handed women fulfilling the DSM-IV criteria for pain disorder and 25 healthy age-matched women were investigated with magnetic resonance imaging. In the voxel-based morphometry analysis, we compared both groups for changes of gray-matter density. We included age and Beck Depression Inventory scores as nuisance variables to minimize possible confounding effects of age or depressive comorbidity.Results: I

Objective: To understand the mechanisms underlying chronic interpersonal difficulties and their detrimental influence on mental and physical health.Methods: A total of 103 healthy young women (mean age = 17 years) were administered a structured interview to assess the degree of chronic interpersonal stress in their lives. At the same time, blood was drawn to measure systemic inflammation, the expression of signaling molecules that regulate immune activation, and leukocyte production of the cytokine interleukin-6 after ex vivo stimulation with lipopolysaccharide. All of the immunologic assessments were repeated 6 months later.Results: To the extent subjects were high in chronic interpersonal stress at baseline, their leukocytes displayed greater increases in messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) for the proinflammatory transcription factor nuclear factor-B (NF-B) over the next 6 months. They also showed larger increases in mRNA for inhibitor of B, a molecule that sequesters NF-B in th

A woman who has lost her hearing has written a book about a young teen trying to understand the hearing loss within her family. The fictional family resembles her own...