Posts Tagged ‘women’
Brain pressure is a condition that is more common in the women, but a U.S. study finds that men are more likely than women to have vision loss because of increased pressure in the brain.
This condition of increased pressure in the brain is known as Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH) and people with this condition have an increased cerebrospinal fluid pressure that leads to severe headaches, swelling of the optic nerves, whooshing noise in the ears, double vision and vision loss. This condition is quite common in women and it affects almost one out of 5,000 people.
Dr. Beau Bruce (from Emory University, Atlanta) and his team looked at the medical records of 721 people that had IIH. Among them only 9 percent patients were male, however, they were as much as twice more likely than female to have intense vision problems in their both or one eye. Read the rest of this entry
Scientists claim that they have developed a new safer blood test that will help to tell pregnant women if their unborn babies have Down’s syndrome.
According to PNAS journal reports, the test of DNA evidence in 18 pregnant women’s blood correctly recognized nine cases of Down’s syndrome.
The test was conducted by the researchers from Stanford University and now they want a larger-scale test. In babies with Down’s syndrome there is an extra copy of chromosome 21 that becomes the cause of physical and intellectual impairments. Read the rest of this entry
Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer says
DeLellis Henderson and Colleagues’ study, published in the journal Contraception that intends to investigate the link between abortion and breast cancer (ABC), has been commented by The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer in the following manner.
“This deceitful study is another proof of the existing wayward perversion by many well-known researchers of an established link between breast cancer and abortion” stated Dr. Joel Brind who is president of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute.
