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New Study Examines If The Gender Of Parents Matter

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  January 21, 2010

EXCERPT:  "Many American women are prescribed estrogen to combat the negative effects of menopause, such as bone loss and mood swings. Now, new evidence from a Tel Aviv University study suggests that hormone replacement therapy might also protect them - and younger women - from schizophrenia as well."  more

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Arad M, Weiner I. Disruption of latent inhibition induced by ovariectomy can be reversed by estradiol and clozapine as well as by co-administration of haloperidol with estradiol but not by haloperidol alone. sychopharmacology (Berl). 2009 Nov;206(4):731-40. Epub 2009 Jan 25.


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Women Fare Better in Small Leg Vessel Procedures

SOURCE:  MedPage Today

DATE:  January 20, 2009

EXCERPT: "Contrary to expectations, women who undergo last-ditch, minimally-invasive procedures to open small blood vessels in the leg -- and forestall amputation -- generally have better outcomes than men, ....  In many endovascular procedures, women tend to do worse then men, generally because they tend to have smaller blood vessels. But in this study, involving the smallest leg blood vessels, the opposite occurred. ... On the downside, women experienced higher rates of blood clots forming at the access site of the treatment ..."     more

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NOT IN PM YET  Faries PL, Shah T, Han D, Shirvalker P, Marin M. Is gender associated with higher re-intervention rates for infragenicular lesions? J Vasc Interv Radiol 2009;20(12):1653.

RELATED LINKS:

Shah, Tejas.  Endovascular Reintervention Rates for Below-the-Knee Lesions in Women: Does Gender Make a Difference? Presentation at International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET) 2010 January 17 - 21, 2010, Hollywood, Florida.   [Best of ISET Abstracts]
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