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• Iraqi women seek freedom of roads again
BAGHDAD - The black-masked militias have vanished from most Baghdad streets, and the car bombings are down to one or two a day. So one recent afternoon, Hadeel Ahmed, a ponytailed college student in jeans, did something few Iraqi women have dared in ...
• Top 20 medical breakthroughs for women
The hot word in obesity this year was leptin. When a connection between this hormone and weight loss was first discovered in 1994, researchers helped fat, overfed lab mice stay slim. And they believed they could do with people what they did with mice ...
• Diabetic women likelier to die after heart attack
NEW YORK - Women younger than age 65 with diabetes tend to have worse cardiovascular risk profiles than diabetic men of the same age, leading to higher death rates following a heart attack, research shows. "The female advantage with fewer ...
• New hope on AIDS in corner of ravaged Africa
This has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of pregnant women receiving drugs to stop them from passing the HIV virus to their children. According to a U.N. report on "Children and AIDS" published for World AIDS Day, the number of ...
• Depression in elderly tied to heart disease
Nov. 24: Fitness expert and motivational speaker Jillian Michaels gives tips for women on accomplishing their goals and conquering their doubts. CHICAGO - Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal ...