Presse Médicale Formation recently devoted the dossier in its second issue to the specificities of cardiovascular disease in women. Every day, this disease kills 200 women in France and 25,000 around the world, with delays diagnosis and treatment essentially due to the fact that women aren’t [...]
Erving Zucker and his colleagues at University of California Berkeley conducted research in more than 5,000 publications and focused on 86 medications on the U.S. market administered to men and women. At equivalent doses, 76 of them had a higher concentration in women’s blood than in men’s blood, [...]
A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine by a team of Harvard psychologists shows that adults 50 years and older who volunteer two hours per week have considerably lower risk of losing independence and of dying. This volunteer time also inspires feelings of well-being and [...]