Oral hormone therapy significantly alters the metabolome of postmenopausal women
Groundbreaking research led by a team of scientists including a University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician shows that oral hormone therapy (HT) significantly alters the metabolome of postmenopausal women. This finding, which examined blood specimens from the landmark Women s Health Initiative (WHI) study, may help explain the disease risks and protective effects associated with different regimens of hormone therapy. This is the first analysis of the metabolomic effects of hormone therapy conducted within the framework of a randomized clinical trial, says Raji Balasubramanian, associate professor in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, whose research connects biostatistics, molecular epidemiology and women s health.
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Remembering the old towns
J.R. Greene holds his latest book, “The Old Quabbin Valley In 100 Objects,” and his 2021 Quabbin History Calendar, both available for purchase now. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO An aerial view of the Quabbin Reservoir. FILE PHOTO
In 1938, Enfield residents held a Farewell Ball before their town was drowned and disincorporated during the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir. FILE PHOTO
The Quabbin Reservoir as seen from the overlook in New Salem off of Route 202.
Brush clearing and burning in Enfield; spring 1939. This is one of the photos taken by the Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission to document the construction of Quabbin Reservoir. This view was taken in the spring of 1939, at the site of Enfield Center, looking southeast. The brick building was the Enfield Town Hall, which had not yet been dismantled by the contractor who purchased it at auction in September, 1938. A large tractor is pushing brush in the foreground. Photo was featur
In the high reaches of the Canadian Arctic, conducting climate research for UMass Amherst, postdoctoral researcher Francois Lapointe and his Inuit guide were chased by a muskox. Eluding the huge creature, Lapointe returned to UMass with important evidence of unprecedented warming of the Atlantic Ocean.
A team led by Lapointe and University Distinguished Professor Raymond Bradley in the Climate System Research Center of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Pierre Francus at University of Québec-INRS analyzed sediments gathered from the bottom of Sawtooth Lake on remote Ellesmere Island. The sediments provide a record of the Atlantic temperatures there as long as 2,900 years ago and show that the warmest interval over this period has been in the past 10 years.
On intimate partner violence
Modified: 12/17/2020 2:57:57 PM
The awareness around intimate partner violence (IPV) has been brought to the fore with the COVID-19 pandemic media attention has highlighted that globally, women already experiencing abuse are at risk of heightened violence along with a general proliferation of IPV overall during the pandemic.
Having worked in the field of domestic and sexual violence for over nine years, I know well the ways in which violence interrupts and affects women’s lives in brutal ways. My doctoral studies in public health at University of Massachusetts Amherst have given me the time to delve deeper into understanding this public health epidemic – and epidemic that I believe continues to be highly stigmatized, invisible to many, and dangerously mis-characterized and largely treated as a private issue.