by Laura Kelley, CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ten percent of the world’s population suffers from migraines, with women suffering from the painful headaches at significantly higher rates than men, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. For National Migraine Awareness Month, Laura Kelley, media relations professional in the University of Colorado...
by Timothy Hearn, The Conversation One of the most common causes of circadian misalignment is shift work. Credit: Ground Picture/Shutterstock You might not know it, but we all have a clock ticking away inside us. This circadian clock operates on roughly a 24-hour cycle. It influences when we sleep, wake and eat, among other things. However, our body clock...
by University of California, Los Angeles Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Breast cancer risk estimates for individual women vary substantially depending on which risk assessment model is used, and women are likely receiving vastly different recommendations depending on the model used and the cutoff applied to define “high-risk,” according to a new study from UCLA. The...
By REBECCA WHITTAKER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 06:03 EST, 29 December 2022 | UPDATED: 07:38 EST, 29 December 2022 Women who think they have long Covid could actually be going through the menopause, experts say. Doctors warn the symptoms for both — such as fatigue, muscle aches and brain fog — are very similar. The majority of long...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Dec 21 2022 Cluster headache, sometimes known as “suicide headache”, have been described as a predominantly male disease. New research from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden now shows that women who have the disease are more affected in their daily lives. They have longer periods of pain, a higher frequency of related symptoms,...
Foods that are rich in potassium may help offset the harm of excessive salt, a new study suggests. Image credit: Dina Issam/EyeEm/Getty Images. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Diets high in sodium increase a person’s risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease. With the widespread consumption of processed foods, many...
by The Scripps Research Institute In postmenopausal women, depletion of estrogen causes excessive elevation of nitric oxide (NO) in the brain and thus generates S-nitrosylated complement factor C3 (SNO-C3). SNO-C3 triggers activated microglial cells, the innate immune cells in the brain, to phagocytose (or ‘eat’) neuronal synapses—the connections that mediate signaling between nerve cells in...
by Laura A. B. Wilson and Shinichi Nakagawa, The Conversation Results of allometry analyses demonstrate that just adjusting the dose for weight is not sufficient to alleviate adverse effects. Credit: Szymon Drobniak Compared to men, we know much less about how women experience disease. Biomedical research helps us understand the timeline of diseases and how we...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress FEDORA is an RNA gene that is regulated in the brain of depressed women but not men. We used animal models to demonstrate the mechanism by which it acts to promote depression risk. Credit: Issler et al., Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine...
People with no history of high blood pressure can develop hypertension for the first time in the weeks and months after childbirth, but until now, there has been very little data on first-time hypertension that develops more than six weeks after delivery. The study, published in the journal Hypertension, also found that nearly a quarter of these cases...
