“Catch that car!,” was the instruction given to 22 men sitting in a driving simulator. The more “macho” the man, the more risks he took on the road, according to a study by Julie Langlois, a graduate student at the University of Montreal Department of Psychology, who presented her findings at the annual conference of [...]
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The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Marie Stopes Launches TV Ad: Fox News reported on a new British TV ad from Marie Stopes International that urges women with unplanned pregnancies to call a toll-free hotline for counseling. Antiabortion-rights groups are protesting the ad, which uses the slogan “Are You Late?” and does not [...]
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There is a “modern fable” that it is usually the female partner “who conspires to get pregnant, perhaps by ‘forgetting’ to take her birth control pills, as a way to ‘trap a man,’” but two recently released studies demonstrate the “striking frequency with which it is in fact young men who try to force their [...]
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Since it was introduced in 2002, India’s market for emergency contraception has grown by 245%, leading some health experts to express concern that the increasing popularity and accessibility of EC could pose health dangers for women, Time reports. Starting in 2005, Indian law allowed EC by various brands to be sold without a prescription…
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U.S. women and their partners are increasingly using contraception when they have premarital sex for the first time, although about half of all pregnancies in the U.S. remain unintended because rates of unprotected sex overall are fairly high, according to the National Survey of Family Growth released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and [...]
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Changes in vaginal pH as a result of common triggers can have harsh consequences, making the vaginal ecosystem far more susceptible to problems such as odor, irritation or even bacterial vaginosis (”BV”): an itching, burning infection with many of the same symptoms as a yeast infection. In an effort to educate women about health [...]
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Male sex hormones, such as testosterone, have well defined roles in male reproduction and prostate cancer. What may surprise many is that they also play an important role in female fertility…
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Governments and other organizations must intensify efforts to improve the health of women and children, particularly in the developing world where the lion’s share of deaths occur, says Dr. Philip Baker, an internationally renowned medical researcher in obstetrics & gynecology…
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Women who drink two large glasses of milk a day after their weight-lifting routine gained more muscle and lost more fat compared to women who drank sugar-based energy drinks, a McMaster study has found. The study appears in the June issue of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise…
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA is considering criminal action against the Johnson & Johnson unit that makes Tylenol following the recent series of recalls and a history of manufacturing problems, a top FDA official told a congressional panel today.
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