Fans, felons and profanities? Must be football season
A woman approached me at City Market the other day and asked if I was going to do another football column like last year, which was sort of weird considering I didn’t do a football column last year. But I didn’t say anything to her because I’m polite. Plus she was holding a zucchini. Experience has taught me to never argue with a woman holding a member of the squash family, especially if she’s ...
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Researcher awarded $1.8M grant to investigate sex differences in anxiety
Anxiety disorders afflict women twice as often as men, but estrogen might not be the reason. Testosterone, though, could be. That is one of the preliminary findings in the lab of Florida State University researcher Mohamed Kabbaj, associate professor in the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to investigate the ...
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International study to improve treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy launched
A large international study aimed at improving the care of muscular dystrophy patients worldwide is being launched by physicians, physical therapists, and researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
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UB symposium to discuss In Silico molecular design, High-throughput screening to treat diseases
Twenty-first-century pharmaceutical breakthroughs require 21st-century drug discovery tools, such as computational or in silico molecular design and high-throughput screening of effective, new compounds. That's the theme of a University at Buffalo symposium to be held Sept. 11 on "Twenty-first Century Bioscience: In Silico Methods and High-Throughput Screening," which will feature a variety of ...
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EMAS publishes position statements about the post-reproductive health of women
Statements, published in the journal Maturitas, cover the management of menopause in the context of obesity, epilepsy, endometriosis and premature ovarian failure.
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