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(HealthDay News) -- While most Americans who get tattoos are happy with their decision, women are much more likely than men to decide to get their markings removed, new research reveals.
The study authors noted that the gender difference might be attributable to the fact that women appear to face more social stigma and negative comments as a result of having a tattoo.
"We saw that for women there is still some negative societal fallout to having tattoos", said study author Myrna L. Armstrong, a professor in the school of nursing at Texas Tech University's Health Sciences Center, in Lubbock, Texas. "This isn't a problem for men. Society supports men, because tattoos are related to a macho image, so we don't question it. But for women, having a tattoo seems to be a transgression of gender boundaries." |
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Getting too much sleep may be a more serious sign of stroke risk among older women than not getting enough sleep, according to a new
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Researchers found that postmenopausal women who slept nine or more hours per night were 70% more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than women who slept an average of seven hours a night. |
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A SLEAZY crook tried to cash in on men's impotence problems by selling them an illegal version of Viagra - which could have put their health at risk.
When police raided Brian Wilsher's home in Erin Road, Duckmanton, Chesterfield, they found 50,000 of the tablets - brand named 'Kamarga' - plus 4,000 boxes of unlicensed Kamagra condoms and Kamagra oral jelly. |
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In a city that celebrates its unique demographic makeup, diversity poses a challenge in one important area.
Understanding the health of Cambridge residents is complicated by the multicultural population, with large blocks of young and old residents. But the recent release of two reports by the Cambridge Public Health Department, in conjunction with various local organizations and community groups, sheds light on the dimensions of the issue.
The reports, one on men's health disparities and the other on the status of women and girls, are both "part of a project we started last year to look at the needs of the community," said Claude-Alix Jacob, the city's chief public health officer. "We want to make sure that people are aware of relative gaps in health across genders, race, and ethnicity." |
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Depression can be physically harder on middle-age females than on males, researchers say
A new Canadian study shows that middle-aged women face far greater risks of heart disease than men as a result of depression.
"We are learning that depression knows very little about political correctness," said Roger McIntyre, head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at Toronto's University Health Network.
This study shows for the first time that depression affects women in ways that are much more significant and much more physically severe than in men, he said.
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State officials have renewed efforts to cut payments to pharmacies for prescription drugs to millions of low-income Medi-Cal patients after a federal appeals court put a 10 percent rate reduction on hold for at least a month.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ordered a halt to the cost-cutting measure Friday in a lawsuit by pharmacists and patients, who claimed the reduction violated federal law and would cause some pharmacies to stop filling Medi-Cal prescriptions. The court said its injunction would stay in effect until Aug. 11, when a federal judge must decide whether to extend the order. |
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ONE in 10 Australian women in their late 20s routinely use the notoriously unreliable withdrawal method to avoid pregnancy, a national survey reveals.
Results of the major study present the latest picture on the sexual health of a typical 30-year-old Australian woman. |
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It's so consequence-free. A man and woman find each other attractive, they flirt, then have sex, perhaps more than once. The relationship ends and the couple move on to other people, leaving only bittersweet memories of a brief, intense romance. |
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Babies born to women with low levels of vitamin D during pregnancy may be at increased risk for tooth enamel defects and early childhood tooth decay, a Canadian study finds.
Researchers at the University of Manitoba analyzed the vitamin D levels of 206 women in their second trimester of pregnancy and found only 21 (10.5 percent) of the women had adequate vitamin D levels. The women's levels of vitamin D were related to the frequency of milk consumption and prenatal vitamin use. |
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Imagine this. You are a woman who has gone along to her GP surgery for a cervical screening test. You are told that, in fact, you don't need a smear and probably never will. Given that you are still in full possession of all your reproductive organs, wouldn't you be puzzled, to say the least? Yet this is the experience of too many women in Scotland today. |
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The rating also takes into account the revision to the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law and medical system reform as it may increase competition in the pharmacy and drugstore industry and pressure earnings, Moody's said. |
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