Despite the low figure, it is a 4% increase from 2011's numbers, the Centre for the Study of Women in Television and Film said.
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According to NJ.com and The Star Ledger, a study by the Center for the Study of Women in TV and Film at San Diego State showed that only 7% of the top 250 films released in 2009 were directed by women.
But Avastin failed to help breast cancer patients in a study of 462 women completed last fall.
The next stage of the ongoing research project will involve a study of 80 women who have been similarly mapped while dancing.
In a study of 288 women from 2001, the drug tamoxifen reduced breast-cancer incidence among healthy BRCA2 carriers by 62% compared with a placebo, though it didn't reduce breast-cancer incidence among healthy women with BRCA1 mutations.
Speaking at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference, Dr Julie Nekkebroeck, who carried out the small Belgian study of 15 women, said they also found that 27% wanted to give their relationship a chance to blossom before bringing up the subject of having a baby.
That study, of 455 women aged over 70, showed patients who had had surgery and tamoxifen lived about three years longer than women who had had surgery but not the drug.
Another study of 592 pregnant women published in Marriage and Family Review in 1997 found 46% chose adoptions, and the 69% of those who picked the adoptive family reported less grief, regret and sadness than those who didn't.
But a new Kyowa-funded study of 60 healthy women found a monthlong regime of daily doses of citicoline resulted in improved attention and fewer errors on a cognitive test compared with placebo, says co-author Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a scientist at the Brain Institute at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who is a paid consultant to Kyowa.
Dr. BROCK: And so in a study of over 500 women from the Washington, DC, area, as a matter of fact, more than 50 percent of them were very happy with their, you know, overweightness because their husbands or counterpart felt that--the person in their lives felt that that's the way they liked them, so they were very satisfied with having hips and thighs, and this is a norm for us.
While the average metabolite levels of the pregnant women in the study were substantially higher than the national average, as many as 25% of pregnant women in the general population have levels above the study average.
After analysing different sub-groups of bus pass holders, the study found that women over the age of 70 and living in London or in urban areas were significantly more likely to use buses and walk three or more times a week than those without bus passes.
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Case in point: a Sage study showing half of all women 18-24 want to launch their own ventures.
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The study of 2, 005 women didn't focus on Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) at all.
Another American study, this time of women who left work to have children, found that all but 7% of them wanted to return to work.
According to Rothstein Kass in a recent study, an index of women-led funds produced a net return of 9%, compared to a global index return of a mere 3%.
In a three-year study of high-risk women, biopsies were performed as a result of sonograms 7.8% of the time in the first year and 5% in the second and third years.
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In a recent study, 73% of women felt that passing money to children and causes is important, but only 14% have conducted detailed financial planning to ensure an effective wealth transfer.
Then in 2002 a single study of 16, 000 women blew all those other results out of the water, finding that hormone replacement therapy increased the risk of heart attacks by 29%.
In 2006, a study of 2, 800 women who had breast cancer showed those who saw few friends or family were as much as five times more likely to die of their disease than women with many social contacts.
Out of the 814 women in the study, four women who were taking testosterone developed breast cancer, but none of the women on placebo did.
And also, the other issue with that study that's been publicized is the average age of the women in that study when they entered was age 63, which is older than most women who are using hormones.
The results of this study just show that women who are taking NSAIDs for other reasons probably have a lower risk of breast cancer.
Francess' work is currently on show the University of Hull, sponsored by WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation) University of Hull, Women with Cameras and the Black History Partnership.
Who belongs to the control group of men-led high tech start-ups to which the study compares the outcomes of the 500 women-led start-ups?
However, the lead researcher of the study, preventive cardiologist Dr. Francine Welty, cautioned that the findings must be confirmed in a larger number of women for a longer amount of time than the study involved.
In the new study, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University analyzed the medical records of more than 121, 000 women who were part of the Nurses' Health Study.
She says in her study, many of the suicidal women had mothers who were also suicidal.
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The study of 160, 000 working women was carried out at the University of Michigan.
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