Alcohol is killing more people and at a younger age in the United States, and the biggest increases in mortality are among women, according to a new analysis.

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At least 37 Palestinians have been injured when Israeli forces opened fire at protesters in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Democratic gains were fueled by women, young and Hispanic voters, a Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll found. Fifty-five percent of women said they backed a Democrat for the House this year, compared to 49 percent in the 2014 midterm congressional election.

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Exposure to wood smoke can have different effects on the respiratory immune systems of men and women — effects that may be obscured when data from men and women are lumped together, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Iranian women directed almost 14 percent of the films submitted to the secretariat of the 12th Iran International Documentary Film Festival, known as Cinema Vérité, which is slated for December 9-16.

Amazon.com Inc.’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: Their new recruiting engine did not like women.

Young women are much more likely to care about climate change than young men, an Australian study has found.

Expectant mothers should be told that the risk of placenta complications rises after a caesarean or fertility treatment, according to top doctors.

A program established by investigators from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), MIT and Harvard is addressing the persistently elevated risk of HIV infection among young women in South Africa from two angles — first, investigating biological factors that modulate infection risk along with the early immunologic events following viral exposure and second, alleviating the socioeconomic factors that limit opportunities for young women, the group at greatest risk of infection in the region of the world hardest hit by the HIV epidemic.

Three-quarters of Japanese companies have no female senior executives and the vast majority say women account for less than 10 percent of management, a Reuters poll showed, underscoring an uphill battle for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘Womenomics’ push.

India accounts for a disproportionately high proportion of global suicide deaths among women

Women in the UK are living shorter lives on average than most of their counterparts in Europe, according to an analysis by Public Health England (PHE).

The number of years a woman can expect to live in decent health has stalled for the first time due to the rising prevalence of dementia, according to a government report.