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US Approves the Sale of Morning after Pill Without Prescription

... The medication, which contains a high dosage of hormones contained in birth control pills, interrupts pregnancy if used within days of unprotected sex. With the decision, health authorities overcame years of emotionally laden political debate that pitted women's rights and advocacy groups against religio...

Processed foods – "the" cause of obesity!

... makes the body produce more insulin, which blocks hormones that would normally tell the brain to stop eating”, he said. According to Lustig, the pattern of sugar consumption is similar to nicotine addiction and it takes more than just will power to change it. To get rid of these sugary foods from mainstrea...

Wear and Tear of Stress: The Psychoneurobiology of Aging

...on (APA). From a review of studies on how stress hormones affect the brain, psychologist Bruce McEwen, PhD, ...functions start to drop off and when the catabolic hormones start to increase. These hormones, the tissue fuelers, can become too active and actually break the ...

Women Alerted against "Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy"

...tion in the form of troches, or lozenges, with the hormones absorbed through the lining of the mouth. The hormones estrogen and progesterone obtained from yams or soy and prepared in laboratories is present in the N...

Studying the psycho neurobiology of aging

...festyle. From a review of studies on how stress hormones affect the brain, psychologist Bruce McEwen, PhD, ...functions start to drop off and when the catabolic hormones start to increase. These hormones, the tissue fuelers, can become too active and actually break the ...

Toxic and Addictive Foods Responsible For Obesity

...as pointed out that this upsets the balance of two hormones leptin and insulin, which regulate how much we eat. High-sugar, low-fiber diet causes leptin to be suppressed by the effects of insulin leading to decreased activity and increased appetite. He said children could not be blamed or expected to take ...

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy

...physicians uncertain about the safety of synthetic hormones and searching for alternatives. Bio-identical (“n...rpart, requires a physician’s prescription for the hormones estrogen and progesterone. The hormones differ in that nBHRT is derived from plants rather than synt...

SEMEN – More than just a sperm carrie

...imulating Hormone) initiates ovulation. Some other hormones are reported to have a role in the maintenance of pregnancy. The researcher, Rebecca Burch, thinks human males have evolved the concoction as a counter-strategy to concealed ovulation in women. Although there are subtle chemical cues that a woman is...

Iodine Deficiency affects IQ of Children

...ies solely on the presence of the mother's thyroid hormones to ensure 'neuropsychological development' because...t yet functional. Of course this supply of thyroid hormones is dependent on an adequate supply of iodine in the diet of the pregnant mother. Iodine can be got...

A Balancing Act: Hormones and the Skin

...nd nails.// These changes occur as the levels of hormones in the body increase and decrease, or if any abnor...cramento, Calif.,discussed how the fluctuations in hormones can affect the skin, hair and nails. Puberty and Hormones Acne typically first appears during adol...

Mornings Are the Best Time to Induce Labor

...up (10:00 pm). Hormone oxytocin was one of the hormones used to induce labor. It was found that women admitted in the morning were less likely to need an infusion of oxytocin when compared to those admitted in the evening group. This showed that inducing labor in the morning is very similar to the natural...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Is Familial

...standing of how environmental factors -- including hormones and infections -- may play a role in the onset of the disorder. He directs the U-M Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division's Pediatric Anxiety and Tic Disorders Program, which treats young patients whose OCD may be related to an infection. That diso...

Knee Osteoarthritis May Be Triggered By Low Levels Of Estrogen

...rone to osteoarthritis. Researchers thing that sex hormones may play a vital role in the disease because of the inflammation caused in the condition as it worsens.// A new study has examined the role played by estradiol, the main sex hormone estrogen in premenopausal and early perimenopausal women and how i...

Males too Undergoes Hormonal Changes During Parenting: Study

...males, males too experience sharp changes in their hormones once they start parenting, say scientists who studied the brain structure of small monkeys.// Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy and her colleagues from Princeton University studied the brain structure of common marmosets - small monkeys that live in trees - th...

Stress Therapy can Restore Fertility: Study

...rhea," which is caused by a long-term reduction in hormones that trigger ovulation. If the results are supported by a larger study, Berga said "we will have very strong evidence for offering stress reduction as an effective therapy for a significant group of infertile women". (Source: IANS)...

Study Finds direct link Between stress And Ovarian Cancer

...The researchers explained that in mice, the stress hormones directly attach themselves to the tumor cells and act by stimulating new blood vessel growth and other factors that leads to faster and more aggressive tumors. The study that has been published in the journal Nature Medicine also found that a blood p...

Mutation in Breast Stem Cells Lead to Breast Cancer

...stem cells do not express receptors for the female hormones oestrogen or progesterone. This characteristic is very similar to those seen in the aggressive basal subtype of breast cancer. It is now a known fact that breast cancer is a heterogenous disease and the speculation is supported by study that breast t...

Muscles May Need Estrogen to Regain Strength, Especially as Women Age

...ool of Health Professions. "The role of female sex hormones on skeletal muscle has been unclear in the past. In fact, some reports have suggested that the hormones have no effect." Brown studied the effect of low hormone levels combined with physical inactivity ...

A three-dimensional Culture System ensures Female Fertility

...roviding the follicles and eggs with the necessary hormones for development while maintaining their normal architecture. The eggs were then used for in vitro fertilization. The fertilized eggs were implanted into a foster mother that was of a different strain than the donor egg and sperm, resulting in babies ...

Beef imports-Area of concern

...o be produced by injecting cattle with many growth hormones that are extremely harmful to health//. This has c...show that children are extremely sensitive to some hormones which can cause sudden growth or breast development, even at levels which are difficult to detect in...

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