Neuropathy, Womens' Health, and Socioeconomic Aspects of Diabetes

Neuropathy, womens' health, and socioeconomic aspects of diabetes.

NEUROPATHY At a symposium on neuropathy sponsored by the University of Texas Southwestern at the American Diabetes Association meeting in San Antonio, Texas, Soroku Yagihashi (Hirosaki, Japan) discussed aspects of the pathogenesis of distal symmetric polyneuropathy. In a recent survey in Tohoku, Japan, of 32,955 individuals with diabetes, history or symptoms of neuropathy made it the most commo...

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

heterogeneity within the orientalist discourse: representation of the orient in womens travelogues and mens paintings

from 1950s onward, new theories and critical approaches burgeoned across humanities. these theories were context-oriented; as a result, the analysis of discursive practices gained significance. thus, social, political, historical and cultural discourses that have been hitherto marginalized and considered inferior to literary texts, were introduced as important texts to be analyzed by critics. o...