Doctorâs Gender May Be Factor in Heart Diagnoses
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Are female doctors better able to diagnose heart disease in women?
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Doctors may be able to predict which women are at high risk of miscarriage, say researchers.
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The location of body fat on older women can indicate the likelihood of heart disease, according to a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology &amp; Metabolism.
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Along with glass ceilings and high heels, a visit to the gynecologist falls somewhere on the dark side of being the fairer sex. It's something to which many women grimly resign themselves. That's because, from a woman's first signs of puberty to menopause and beyond, her gynecologic exams and rel...
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US researchers say they have developed a more accurate way of predicting heart disease risks in women.
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Expert says males should show a feminine, less career-driven side to cut prostate disease risk.
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NEW YORK  - Divorce apparently harms the   cardiovascular health of women, but men's hearts appear to   escape a split-up unscathed, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Deaths from cardiovascular disease are declining among men with diabetes, but not women, and poorer control of blood pressure and cholesterol levels may be to blame, a new study suggests.
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For doctors, searching out disease before it appears can also carry risks.
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One of the nation's leading   cardiologists is calling for a sweeping study to evaluate the   risk of potentially fatal blood clots related to widely used   heart devices that treat blocked heart arteries.
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NEW YORK  - Much of the racial and ethnic  differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a  heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to  which patients are admitted, rather than racial bias, a new  study indicates.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 24 -- When gynecologist Samia al-Amoudi was found last year to have breast cancer, a disease that still carries an intense stigma in this conservative country where women are forced to cover in public, she decided to share the details in her newspaper column, shocking many...
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NEW YORK  - Women with "pre-diabetes" may show signs of impending heart trouble long before the same warning signs show up in men, a new study suggests.
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When a 32-year-old patient with rapid heart palpitations showed up in the emergency room at Massachusetts General Hospital saying she suffered from Holt-Oram Syndrome, Dr. Jonathan Adler had no idea what this syndrome was. But he knew he had to work quickly. Using his computer, he looked up a comprehensive description on eMedicine.com, a Nebraska-based Web database of various diseases ...
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When people with diabetes undergo coronary artery stenting to open clogs, women are more at risk for major adverse events than men, doctors in Germany report.
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Men were 80 percent more likely to have a heart attack if they had experienced a conflict at work within the preceding 12 months. For women, a change in financial circumstances tripled their risk.
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One Saudi woman ignored the cancer growing in her breast because she didn't want to risk a referral to a male doctor. Another was divorced by her husband on the mere suspicion she had the disease, while a third was dragged away from a mammogram machine because the technicians were men.