History is replete with instances where woman have afforded succor in times of strife and turmoil, brought to bear a sobering effect on contemporary socio-political processes. This articles forays into gender perspectives based women's peace activism Japan India against war militarism -- gleaned from recent history. The author opines although women’s participation at the family community level ...

CONTEXT Interventions aimed at adolescents need to be culturally specific. The dearth of data on Asian American adolescents has made it difficult to meet their needs. METHODS Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used, with a sample of 323 Asian American female adolescents and 366 Asian American male adolescents. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess th...

BACKGROUND The differences in the incidence of heart failure by race/ethnicity and the potential mechanisms for these differences are largely unexplored in women. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 156 143 postmenopausal women free of self-reported heart failure enrolled from 1993 to 1998 at 40 clinical centers throughout the United States as part of the Women's Health Initiative and were followe...

Infertility has been described as ‘the diminished or absent ability to conceive or produce an offspring’ (World Health Organization (WHO), 2006). The statistics for infertility vary greatly from country to country and are only an estimate due to the sensitive nature of the condition, but Vayena et al (2002) suggest that, worldwide, it is approximately 13–24%. In Britain it is estimated that app...

Methyl Ethyl Ketone and Methyl Isobutyl Ketone Not Carcinogenic The April 22, 1993, issue of Environmental Health Perspectives contained a commentary by Legator and Strawn entitled "Public Health Policies Regarding Hazardous Waste Sites and Cigarette Smoking: An Argument by Analogy." Although the article does not include any discussion of either methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) or methyl isobutyl keto...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In an era where obesity remains an important public health concern, food addiction has emerged as a possible contributor to obesity. The DRD2 gene is the most studied polymorphism. The aim of this study was to investigate a relationship between food addiction questionnaires, body composition measurements, and a dopamine- resistant receptor polymorphism (DRD2 A1) among ...

Gross cystic disease fluid protein 15 (GCDFP-15) is universally present in the apocrine metaplastic epithelium of cystic breast disease and breast cancer, but it is rarely found in normal breast epithelium. Therefore GCDFP-15 detected in nipple aspirates of breast fluid (NAF) could serve as a biochemical marker of the presence and possibly extent of apocrine metaplasia within the breast. GCDFP-...