Web-based Newsletters

• On-Line News. Newsletter of the UC Agricultural Health and Safety Center at Davis intended for the general public.
  

Dissertation Abstracts on the Web

• Reproductive Health of Female Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
  This study detected significant differences in menstrual bleeding length, menstrual cycle length and cycle variability in women in different occupational groups.

Press Releases

• UC DAVIS STUDY AIMS TO IDENTIFY WHY BIRTH OUTCOMES ARE WORSE FOR SECOND AND THIRD GENERATION LATINAS Researchers looking for 1,500 women from San Joaquin County to enroll in the study. (July 23, 1999)
  Researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health are seeking 1,500 Hispanic women who live in San Joaquin County to participate in a study of healthy pregnancy and birth. The goal of the study - known as SHARE, or the Study of Hispanic Acculturation, Reproduction, and the Environment - is to identify the factors that contribute to Latinas giving birth to healthy babies.
• MISDEMEANOR CRIME RECORD IS A GOOD PREDICTOR OF LATER CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN LEGAL BUYERS OF HANDGUNS ( December 22, 1998)
  Among persons who legally purchased handguns, those who had previously been convicted of misdemeanor crimes were 7.5 times as likely to be charged with new crimes after buying their guns as were handgun buyers who had no prior criminal record. Those who had previously been convicted of two or more violent misdemeanor crimes were 15.1 times as likely to be charged with murder, rape, robbery, or aggravated assault after buying their handguns as were handgun buyers who had no prior criminal record.
• UC DAVIS RESEARCHERS NEED VOLUNTEERS TO STUDY DIET'S EFFECT ON BREAST CANCER RECURRENCE (October 7, 1998)
  Researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine and Medical Center continue to recruit women between the ages of 18 and 70 who have been diagnosed and treated with stages I, II or IIIA breast cancer in the past four years to participate in a study to see if a low-fat, plant-based diet might prevent cancer recurrence. Fifteen hundred women, 300 from the Sacramento area alone, are currently active in the study.
• WORKING MORE THAN 45 HOURS PER WEEK LINKED TO HIGH STRESS, THREE-FOLD INCREASE IN MISCARRIAGE RATE IN WOMEN LAWYERS (June 1, 1997)
  Women lawyers working more than 45 hours a week are five times as likely to feel high stress at work and three times more likely to experience a miscarriage in the first trimester than women who work less than 35 hours a week.