"The corporate sector in some sense has been a great equalizer" for women in medicine, Ms. Goldin said.
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"These are very high-force, high-impact injuries so they cause a lot of damage to tissue and to bone, " said Ron Walls, chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Despite women's greater presence in law and medicine, wage gaps between men and women persist in both fields.
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From business to medicine to our military, women are leading the fields that were closed off to them only decades ago.
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The biggest concern for recovery from such injuries is infection, said Elizabeth Matzkin, an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine expert at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
In the new study, published this week in the "Archives of Internal Medicine, " 248 menopausal women were randomly assigned to receive a placebo pill or 200 milligrams of soy isoflavone supplements per day -- a dose "equivalent to approximately twice the highest intake through food sources in typical Asian diets, " Levis says.
The trends, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, show death rates in women have caught up with men.
As he reports in the latest issue of Psychosomatic Medicine, lymphocytes from the depressed women responded much less than those from the normal women when exposed to agents that induce proliferation.
Lawless and Fox found robust interest among college-age women for careers in business, law and medicine and, last year, the Pew reported that two-thirds of Millennial women identified having a high-paying career as one of their top priorities, while only 59% of Millennial men said the same.
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Two papers published in the journal PLoS Medicine followed the health outcomes of pregnant women and their babies after a previous C-section.
He has also served as the head of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
In June, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that women pursuing careers in academic medicine earn significantly less than men.
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Ms. Goldin said women's gains in medicine have coincided with the rise of corporate-owned hospitals and medical practices, in many cases making it easier for women to balance work and family.
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Professor John Toy, medical director of Cancer Research UK, said the report strengthened the already well established message that HRT was a medicine which should be taken only after women and their doctors have carefully considered its potential medical benefits and risks.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine recommends no more than two embryos for women under 35 years old and no more than five for women over 40.
Professor Richard Fleming, director of the Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine, said that the root cause was because women were starting their families later in life.
Women are excelling in the fields of medicine and law.
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Dr. Aaronson is an emergency-medicine resident at Harvard and a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Journalists were shuttled off to the women's page, doctors to pediatric medicine, and lawyers to behind-the-scenes work such as real estate and insurance law.
There is also useful information and a few photos at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Web site and woman-specific information at the Women's Sports Foundation, a Web site founded by tennis legend Billie Jean King.
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In this study, carried out in 2002, scientists from the UK's University of Edinburgh and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the US, examined 38 women who were pregnant while at or near the World Trade Center when it was attacked.
The findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, come from 60, 290 questionnaires filled out by women in the Nurses' Health Study, a survey of more than 121, 000 female registered nurses begun in 1976.
That daunting statistic is one of the reasons Nadine Katz, senior associate dean, professor and director of medical education in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, got interested in helping aspiring female med school professors achieve their goals.
For instance, aspirin seems to prevent heart attacks and cause strokes in low-risk medicine, but a controversial study showed it did the opposite in women.
As women continue to make strides in fields like law and medicine, the gap in the tech industry has many wondering exactly what the culprit is.
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Dr. Leah Millheiser, director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been conducting studies looking at the MRI images of women with extremely low libido.
According to a 2008 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, between one-third and one-half of all women will find themselves coping with low sexual desire at some point in their lives.
But Dr Clare Tower, consultant in obstetrics and fetal maternal medicine, at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, stressed that women who have had the occasional alcoholic drink in pregnancy should not be overly alarmed by the findings.
"It's important to highlight that it's not been decided that the (27 regional) Councils of Medicine are favourable to abortion, instead it's the autonomy of women and doctors, " the president of the FCM, Roberto Luiz D'Avila, wrote on the statement.
According to Dajani, more than four in ten Jordanian women who go to a university major in science, engineering or medicine.
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