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That grim situation could have been avoided, researchers say. An estimated 12 million American women are routinely prescribed statins, which carry a risk of serious side effects. Yet there is little evidence that they prevent heart disease in women. In past research, statin therapy has been shown to prolong the lives of people with heart disease. It has also been shown to stave off the onset of heart disease in healthy at-risk adults. But researchers who have broken out and analyzed the data on healthy female patients in these trials found that the lifesaving benefit, which extends...
...slow to catch on, especially in the pharmaceutical industry. Before the 1990s, women were largely excluded from clinical drug trials - an attempt to protect pregnant women from harm and avoid the potentially confounding effects of women's hormone fluctuations. Since then, as studies have actively recruited women, gender-based research has begun to reveal crucial information about how the development of diseases - such as heart disease, lung cancer and autoimmune disorders - may affect women in markedly different ways from...
...called Joanna Mountain, Ph.D., 23andMe's senior director of research, so she could teach me how to brag more effectively. Mountain explained that Cassandra and I had each contributed an equal number of chromosomes to Laszlo's genome but that I possibly had a greater influence on the 583,000 genetic markers that 23andMe has decided are more significant...
Chip Berlet, who tracks right-wing populism for Political Research Associates, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is not alone in drawing parallels between America's patriot movement and Germany's Weimar Republic. "You see the rise of a large group of disaffected middle-class and working-class people with a strong sense of grievance," he says. "None of the major parties speak for them." If their grievances aren't resolved, he warns, they are likely to become more militant. The message from the militias is largely the same: whether it takes a whisper or a shout, we will be heard. --Reported...
Yale astronomy graduate student Carolin Cardamone, who has published research on green pea galaxies, says astronomers were alerted to their existence by Galaxy Zoo volunteers who posted hundreds of images to the site's busy discussion forum. She says the project is an enormous boon to her field. "This is all hard, rigorous science," she says. "We're not giving [the volunteers] busywork to do. We're not doing this so they can have fun with science, but so they can participate in real science...