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Vaccinations during childhood could be made less effective by exposure to chemicals commonly found in plastic containers and food packaging, Harvard researchers have claimed. The Telegraph By Nick Collins, Science Correspondent 7:30AM GMT 25 Jan 2012 The man-made chemicals, known as PFCs, are found in a variety of everyday items including non-stick frying pans, waterproof Continue Reading …
Women’s eNews By Suzanne Braun Levine WeNews guest author Sunday, January 8, 2012 Despite conventional wisdom dictating that intimacy ends at midlife for women, Suzanne Braun Levine says this is untrue in her new book “How We Love Now.” In this except, she describes how love actually changes and deepens. (WOMENSENEWS)–Being in love knows no Continue Reading …
Womens eNews By Suzanne Braun Levine WeNews guest author Sunday, January 8, 2012 Despite conventional wisdom dictating that intimacy ends at midlife for women, Suzanne Braun Levine says this is untrue in her new book “How We Love Now.” In this except, she describes how love actually changes and deepens. Being in love knows no Continue Reading …
New England Journal of Medicine
N Engl J Med 2011; 365:1304-1314October 6, 2011
Background
Before 1971, several million women were exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol (DES) given to their mothers to prevent pregnancy complications. Several adverse outcomes have been linked to such exposure, but their cumulative effects are not well understood.
What your Doctors Don’t Tell You
11 August 2011
Breast cancer isn’t quite the deadly disease it once was – but doctors can’t explain why. The one thing they do know is that intensive screening programmes have had nothing to do with the sudden drop in the number of women dying from the disease.
Irish Health
August 27, 2011
by Deborah Condon www.irishhealth.com]
Chemotherapy may have a greater effect on a woman’s fertility than first estimated, a new study indicates.
According to US researchers, previous studies have tended to focus on whether a woman’s periods come back after treatment. The absence of menstruation is known as amenorrhoea and until now, it has been viewed as one of the main reproductive side-effects associated with chemotherapy.
Body Ecology
Posted August 16, 2011.
Do you know the telltale signs of hypothyroidism?
The thyroid gland is a small butterfly shaped gland that sits just below the thyroid cartilage. The thyroid can:
Lift your energy.
Warm your body.
Activate the immune system.
WeNews
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
WeNews guest author
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Despite common assumptions, youth sex isn’t the only good sex, says Margaret Morganroth Gullette. In this excerpt from her book, “Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America,” she posits that many women find that sex actually improves with age.
(WOMENSENEWS)–Under what circumstances do women with some experience say sex got better after young adulthood?
Not when they are asked, “Do you [still] want sex and how often?” which assumes that youth sex was fabulous and treats older sex as a series of metered losses. Questions about frequency-over-time reveal little but male anxiety, from Alfred Kinsey on into recent large-scale surveys, including AARP’s.
The Women’s Media Center
By Dr. Sharon Ufberg
August 1, 2011
Authored by Lisa Cosgrove of the Harvard Center for Ethics, a recent statistical analysis of studies assessing the relationship between breast and ovarian cancer and antidepressant drug use finds possible link.
Are you one of the thousands of women currently taking antidepressants? A recent review indicates that these medications are not risk free, particularly for women.
The analysis of published studies suggests a link between breast and ovarian cancer and antidepressant drug usage. The review, which found an 11 percent increased risk overall in both breast and ovarian cancer for patients taking such medication, points to a need for further investigation, particularly since the results varied widely depending on who funded the research.
Age of Autism
By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.
August 4, 2011
As part of my continuing series of articles which I think should be subtitled, Official Documents which Scare the Living Daylights Out of Me! I offer this July 24, 2011 publication from the Food and Drug Adminstration.
The release is entitled Investigating Viruses in Cells Used to make Vaccines; and Evaluating the Potential Threat Posed by Transmission of Viruses to Humans. XMRV is prominently featured as a virus about which they are concerned. Please feel free to read the entire document at FDA.gov.
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