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Why Females Fare Better Than Males After Traumatic Injury

A study published in the September 2010 issue of SHOCK by Dr. Ed W. Childs and colleagues at Scott & White Healthcare looks at how female versus male rats fared after suffering a trauma and subsequent hemorrhagic shock who were given Estradiol (estrogen). In the study, the Estradiol prevented vascular permeability following hemorrhagic shock. "We've always known that females fare better than ...

Estradiol prevents vascular permeability following hemorrhagic shock: Study

A study published in the September 2010 issue of SHOCK by Dr. Ed W. Childs and colleagues at Scott & White Healthcare looks at how female versus male rats fared after suffering a trauma and subsequent hemorrhagic shock who were given Estradiol (estrogen). In the study, the Estradiol prevented vascular permeability following hemorrhagic shock.

Why Does Anxiety Target Women More? FSU Researcher Awarded $1.8M Grant To Find Out

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 ...

Keeping up with the girls

Are girls growing up too fast? And will the trend toward precocious sexual development be the final nail in the coffin of male domination? Remember the scene in "Annie Hall" in which a school-age, girl-kissing Alvy Singer is reminded by a classmate that "even Freud speaks of a latency period," and Alvy declares "I never had a latency period"? Some version of that may be happening in real life ...

Study Discovers Why Females Fare Better Than Males After Traumatic Injury

Scott & White Healthcare physicians discover important finding in treatment of hemorrhagic shockA study published in the September 2010 issue of SHOCK by Dr. Ed W. Childs and colleagues at Scott & White Healthcare looks at how female versus male rats fared after suffering a trauma and subsequent hemorrhagic shock who were given Estradiol (estrogen). In the study, the Estradiol prevented ...