Over the last few weeks, a long-sleeping beast was awakened: the debate over access and the affordability of birth control, women's health care, and abortion.*Who should pay for it? Who shouldn't? What is basic health care, and what is vanity medication? And consistently, the perception has...
During this whole birth control kerfuffle, many, many non-uterus-having, non-medical-doctorate-having politicians have shown *that they truly have an intimate knowledge of the female body. It has become clear to many women in this country that men simply know better than be do when it comes to...
But then if you take birth control away, all the sexually active women will have baby after baby after babies Then those women can't afford the babies they made and then have to apply for welfare. Food benefits, cash benefits, and medicaid. Which would you rather pay taxes on, Birth control to...
According to results of a randomized controlled trial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ), the effects of influenza immunization on babies born to vaccinated mothers shows a considerable positive effect on birth weight. The study, part of the Mother'sGift project...
A multi-center study of a national survey published in Arthritis Care and Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), has established that over half of women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systematic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have fewer children than desired. Leading...
'Gals,' we need to get serious about this birth control silliness. Because Foster Friess, major donor to Rick Santorum's super PAC and contraceptive pragmatist wants you to know that you're all just being a bunch of ninnies. Clearly, the solution to the birth control debate (which is now being...
During a special announcement this afternoon, President Barack Obama didn't actually alter the effect of his previous decision that religious employers with health plans must offer birth control coverage. He just kind of changed the phrasing of it. Which is fine—hey, compromise, we dig it. But...
A had my baby 4 months ago im wondering if its normal for me to have no sex drive still and when i do have sex for it to start hurting after a short time?
Using a combination of evolutionary biology and virology, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have traced the birth of the ability of some HIV-related viruses to defeat a newly discovered cellular-defense system in primates. The research, led by Michael Emerman, Ph.D., a member...
Did Beyoncé and Jay-Z really have bodyguards all over the hospital ordering other patients around while she was giving birth? Is it ethical for hospitals to allow that? ...
...A door had slammed shut for Thompson and Ritchie in March of 1969, when their employer, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., withdrew from a collaborative project with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric to create an interactive time-sharing system called...
I recently lost my California ID along with my wallet... This winter break I'm going to Palm Springs and will be flying. Am I able to use my birth certificate and school ID? I'm staying in California- San Francisco to Palm Springs. Please Help
I have been on birth control for a while and me and my boyfriend where thinking of having sex using a condom. I was.wondering when is it ok or "safer" to have sex while on birthcontrol.like.when am I ovulating when am I not ovulating. Im really trying NOT to get pregnant. I thank those who take...
Apparently, birth control might be causing prostate cancer in men. How might birth control, something typically ingested by women, end up causing prostate cancer in men? According to a new study, it's likely that estrogen is ending up in our water supply, courtesy of birth control, and by way of...
Okay, so I just had my baby on Monday 31st. And the doctor told me that I couldn't have sex for 6 week's. And I'm not ready to have sex I'm still healing, but my question is how long after giving birth did you wait to have sex!? I know so people don't wait for the whole 6 week's.
I'm only 13, but I want to have kids in my 20's...maybe my first at 25 if I'm married.
I've heard some pain medications can make you barf...but I'm afraid, lol.
I know...I don't have to worry about this for at least another 10 years...
But how much does it hurt?