An orthopedist who admitted fondling five female patients in his East Rutherford office is being sued by one of his victims, who alleges the assault left her emotionally scarred. Forty percent of workers have no long-term disability coverage, while 41 percent of those who do consider their coverage inadequate, a new survey shows. Aside from contributing to insomnia, anxiety, and jitters, caffeine may reduce fertility in women, lead to calcium loss associated with osteoporosis, and increase the risk of miscarriages. Alarmed by stalled progress against some cancers and struggles to find volunteers to test new treatments, pharmaceutical companies, the government, and medical groups are working on a cure. Women's heart disease tricky to diagnose Heart disease in women appears to be vastly different than heart disease in men.
Symptoms vary, it strikes later in life, and, most alarmingly, it often goes unrecognized.
The Bush administration is working to create an Internet-based clearinghouse of medical mistakes made by doctors and hospitals, with the intention of helping them avoid such errors in the future. At least if you're an insect. Scientists have known that plants under attack from bugs emit chemicals to defend themselves. Now, researchers from the University of Georgia are reporting that the chemical cocktail varies by day or night. Anyone who has walked in women's shoes has probably wondered whether they were designed specifically to torture.