New Advances in Screening for Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal Cancer is the second-leading killer in the U.S., and according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), over 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed and over 50,000 will die from the disease in 2018. ACS also notes that “Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 22 (4.49%)
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Mental Illness

King George III—Mad as a Hatter or Simply Manic?

As Independence Day approaches, we look back on our nation’s history with awe, inspiration and thankfulness— as well as interest in the British monarch, King George III, who not only lost America but also lost his mind. King George III’s reign lasted 60 years. It was punctuated with bouts of brilliance. The American Revolution was
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The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Announces the Winners of the Robert S. Birch Award

We established a competition for the best original scientific paper accepted for publication in our journal, Gender and the Genome, to encourage the receipt of high quality original studies for publication. The entries were required to have included gender as a variable in their research protocols, thus assessing the relevance of sex and gender to
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Summer and smoke

Summer and Smoke

Last summer we wrote about the perils of e-cigarettes and vaping in our blog (E-Cigarettes: When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) that are marketed to young people who want to be hipsters, not knowing how dangerous the ingredients in e-cigarettes really are. In fact, there has been an ongoing battle among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), manufacturers and distributors to disclose and label
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Joint stiffness

FDA Approves New Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug

According to the Arthritis Foundation, roughly 1.5 million people in the United States suffer with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and nearly three times as many women have the disease as men. RA, which is an autoimmune disease affecting the joints, afflicts women primarily between the ages of 30 and 60 whereas in men it usually occurs
A Vacation? Who Has Time?

A Vacation? Who Has Time? **

When my editor and her associate urged me to for the second year in a row to write my August editorial on why doctors need a vacation, I couldn’t seem to do a credible job. My son, passing through the room in which I was wrestling with this inexplicably difficult assignment, suggested that since I
Bonding bones

A New Meaning for the Term “Glued to the Hip!”

According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), more than 53 million people in the United States have osteoporosis or are at risk of experiencing an osteoporosis-associated bone fracture. And, over six million fractures will occur in the U.S. every year. And, if you have ever broken a bone, you know just how painful and
Hydrogel Implants

A Potent New Tool Against Cancer: Hydrogel Implants

In the fight against cancer, surgery is often the first step for patients. However, once a tumor is surgically removed, inflammation impedes healing by suppressing antitumor immune cells which can result in the increase of cancer cells. Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of all cancer deaths.  Now there appears to be new hope in
Our Researchers in Action

The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine—Our Researchers in Action, Part Two

In this second article, the Foundation presents the research of our final four grant awardees. Two of these young research scientists are also recipients of our M. Irené Ferrer Award. Doctor Ferrer was a distinguished scholar who used the cardiac catheter to define the nature of heart disease in the living patient. Our Foundation is
Scientists

The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine—Our Researchers in Action, Part One

A research scientist’s work is never done. It involves planning, is often rigorous, painstaking and always evidence-based. When theories are proven, the results can yield major breakthroughs; when theories fail, it is back to the drawing board to begin again. The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine is proud to note that many of its awardees have
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