The Advancing Womens Health Initiative applauds the best medical headline: Men are babies, reason number 4,832, published by Stone Hearth News in sharing findings from a study on sex differences in knee osteoarthritis, published in the journal, Biology of Sex Differences. The relevance of the study demonstrates that women continue to be as physically active […]
osteoarthritis, pain, Physical Activity
Mary I. O’Connor, M.D., chair of the Mayo Clinic Department of Orthopedic (Florida) is testing her observation that the nagging pain and inflammation that women experience in their knees appears different from that of men encounter in a novel U.S.-Canadian study supported by the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) and its Interdisciplinary Studies in […]
OA, pain
The DAWN [Drug Abuse Warning Network] Report examined Trends in Emergency Department Visits, which indicate a 49-percent increase in emergency rooms visits for drug related suicide attempts by women aged 50 and older from 2005 to 2009. DAWN is a public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related hospital emergency department visits.In addition, the report, compiled by […]
drugs, pain, suicide
