A study to evaluate birth control methods has found dramatic differences in their effectiveness. Women who used birth control pills, the patch or vaginal ring were 20 times more likely to have an unintended pregnancy than those who used longer-acting forms such as an intrauterine device (IUD) or...
ok so i started birth control sunday made me sick to my stomach yesterday didnt take it last night (stupid me) but my dr said the sickness wont last very long to atleast finish the first pack and then quit or think about switching, so idk what to do, do i throw away yesterdays pill? do i take...
ok so i started birth control sunday made me sick to my stomach yesterday didnt take it last night (stupid me) but my dr said the sickness wont last very long to atleast finish the first pack and then quit or think about switching, so idk what to do, do i throw away yesterdays pill? do i take...
Scientists at A*STAR's Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), in collaboration with doctors and scientists in Jordan, Turkey, Switzerland and USA, have identified the genetic cause of a birth defect known as Hamamy syndrome[1]. Their groundbreaking findings were published in the prestigious journal...
The internet has been aflutter with arguments over whether Girls is the voice of a generation, as Lena Dunham's character Hanna memorably claims she might be. But when it comes to birth control and safe sex, the show is closer to the mark than we'd like to believe, at least according to a new...
Not all people are born equal. In fact, new research suggests that if a child is born from an obese mother, it is likely to have significantly lower cognitive function compared to a child from a mother of a healthy weight. More »
I have had a Mariana (IUD) in since December 2010..so almost a year and a half. Well. I got it only because my periods were so heavy. I RARELY have sex. But one week ago I did have sex and we did not use any protection and he c*me in me but like I said I have the IUD. Well I have not had my...
Judging by current U.S. political debates, you might think women's reproductive health wasn't a huge priority for governments. But the U.N. would like to tell world leaders that they do, indeed, need to wake up and take birth control more seriously, especially when it comes to young women. More...
In the United States, a baby is born with a facial cleft every hour, of every day of the year! Such birth defects result from both gene mutations and environmental insults. PRDM16 is a transcription factor originally described as being aberrantly activated in specific types of leukemia's, and...
Preterm babies are born at a higher rate in the United States than in 130 other countries of the world, including many poorer nations, according to the just-released report 'Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth.' The report, containing the first-ever estimates of preterm...
Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of shorter length than infants born to women who used anti-HIV drug regimens that do not include tenofovir during pregnancy, according to...
A distinct advantage of leaving your younger years behind should be ditching your drugstore's acne section along with them. But for many of us, dotting our skin with ProActive and testing birth control formulas to clear up our skin is still a far too common habit. Adult acne results from the...
Yes, 2000 years ago it appeared miraculous. But today every other doctor
is implanting the seed of a man in the body of a woman and producing a
baby.
Is this simple implant so wonderful that you start calling him God or son of God?
Muhammad...
The Food and Drug Administration announced earlier this week that it would add stronger warning labels to Yaz, Yasmin and other birth control pills containing drospirenone (a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone) about the associated risk of blood clots. But, the FDA emphasized, the...
You know those birth control commercials that try to convince you that you can't possibly remember to take the Pill every day, so instead you should opt for the "once every three month" injection? Well, according to new research, one of these contraceptive shots--the depo-medroxyprogesterone...
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus really, really wants all of the controversy surrounding women's reproductive rights—you know, the one that stumps GOP nominee Mitt Romney*and turns female voters off of his party—to go away. So to persuade everyone, he compared women to...
Heavier female babies are more likely to develop diabetes and related metabolic risks when they grow up compared with their male counterparts, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (JCEM). The incidence of...
We've been talking a lot of about contraceptive and reproduction this week, and mostly focusing on female birth control. But the truth is, male birth control isn't that far behind...and men want it. So why the long wait for a medication that is both in demand, and scientifically plausible? Guest...
Probably one of the biggest and most damaging pieces of misinformation swirling around during this whole reproductive health*debate is that birth control is inexpensive. And whether or not you think that it should be covered by insurance (like every other kind of medicine is), the fact remains...