The rates of men dying from malignant melanoma - the deadliest form of skin cancer - have doubled in the last 30 years, according to the latest Cancer Research UK figures published last friday. In the late 70s fewer than 400 (1.5 per 100,000) men died from melanoma but now more than 1100 (3.1 [...]
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Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered a method to select sperm with the highest DNA integrity in a bid to improve male fertility. The method is comparable to that of the egg’s natural selection abilities, according to the study published in the June/July issue of the Journal of Andrology…
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Men with a deep, masculine voice are seen as more dominant by other men but a man’s own dominance - perceived or actual - does not affect how attentive he is to his rivals’ voices. His own dominance does however influence how he rates his competitors’ dominance: the more dominant he thinks he is, the [...]
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“At a time when the male leadership [of the Catholic Church] can be blamed for leading the church to a state of crisis — at time when the voices of women are needed more than ever — even the modest roles accorded to female clerics have come under attack,” Newsweek’s Lisa Miller writes in an [...]
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Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times column on challenges to family planning in developing nations “rightly prescribes more than just dispensing birth control pills in helping women make informed reproductive choices,” Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards writes in a letter to the editor…
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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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News outlets report on state initiatives to limit abortions by requiring an ultrasound before the procedure. “Over the last decade, ultrasound has quietly become a new front in the grinding state-by-state battle over abortion,” The New York Times reports…
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“The Obama administration on Thursday released a sweeping statement of its national security goals,” the Los Angeles Times reports. The 52-page document “calls for the United States to strengthen international institutions, to heed treaties and norms, and to build stronger ties to allies, including to the emerging powers of India, Brazil and China…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “In Memory of Dr. Tiller: Reflections on the Death of an American Hero One Year Later,” Julie Burkhart, RH Reality Check: Nearly one year after the shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller, Burkhart revisits a journal entry she wrote the day of the murder…
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“While the G8 is putting maternal health at the top of its agenda for next month’s summit, fears are growing that the club of wealthy nations is neglecting one of the biggest killers of women: AIDS,” the Globe and Mail reports in a piece that examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and what the [...]
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