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A woman (irregular plural: women) is a female human. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. However, the term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "Women's rights".

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UWM study explores why women leave engineering careers

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 1

While only one in 10 male engineers leave their field by the time they reach their 30s, about one in four women are not working in engineering despite having completed the necessary education.


In Europe, an orderly approach to swine flu shots (AP)

In Europe, most swine flu shots by invitation only

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy ...


Blood test identifies women at risk from Alzheimer's

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Middle-aged women with high levels of a specific amino acid in their blood are twice as likely to suffer from Alzheimer's many years later, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ...


Oral contraceptives may benefit women with asthma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research shows that during natural menstrual cycles, women with asthma who were not taking oral contraceptives (OC) had lower exhaled nitric oxide levels (eNO), a marker of airway inflammation associated with asthma, ...


Discrimination takes its toll on Black women

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women's mental health. It undermines their view of themselves as masters of their own life circumstances and makes them less psychologically resilient and more prone ...


Poor countries see troubling rise in breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, ...


Early-stage, HER2-positive breast cancer patients at increased risk of recurrence

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early-stage breast cancer patients with HER2 positive tumors one centimeter or smaller are at significant risk of recurrence of their disease, compared to those with early-stage disease who do not express the aggressive protein, ...


Initial results show pregnant women mount strong immune response to one dose of 2009 H1N1 vaccine

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Healthy pregnant women mount a robust immune response following just one dose of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, according to initial results from an ongoing clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and ...


Flu vaccine given to women during pregnancy keeps infants out of the hospital

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infants born to women who received influenza vaccine during pregnancy were hospitalized at a lower rate than infants born to unvaccinated mothers, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study by researchers at Yale ...


Race is strong predictor for restless legs syndrome

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research shows that Caucasian women may suffer from restless legs syndrome (RLS), a sleep disorder characterized by the strong urge to move the legs, up to four times more than African-American women. The study, presented ...


Progress made on group B streptococcus vaccine

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have completed a Phase II clinical study that indicates a vaccine to prevent Group B Streptococcus ...


Switzerland restricts use of GlaxoSmithKline swine flu vaccine

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Switzerland on Friday restricted the use of British drugs group GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu vaccine Pandemrix, excluding pregnant women, minors and people over the age of 60.


Lessons from flu seasons past

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pregnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side effects from injectable vaccines containing killed virus, according ...


Pregnant women risk early delivery from using psychiatric medication

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medicine during pregnancy have triple the odds of delivering a premature baby.


Study shows hormone replacement therapy decreases mortality in younger postmenopausal woman

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to treat menopausal estrogen deficiency has been in widespread use for over 60 years. Several observational studies over the years showed that HRT use by younger postmenopausal women was ...