Teen girls are getting pregnant, in part, because they don’t understand their menstrual cycles. It’s time for sexual health educators to step up and teach girls the primary sign of fertility.
Many American Women Use Birth Control Pills for Noncontraceptive Reasons
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Health News Digest
By Staff Editor
Nov 15, 2011 – 9:37:55 AM
[Guttmacher_7_1] The most common reason U.S. women use oral contraceptive pills is to prevent pregnancy, but 14% of pill users—1.5 million women—rely on them exclusively for noncontraceptive purposes. The study documenting this finding, “Beyond Birth Control: The Overlooked Benefits of Oral Contraceptive Pills,” by Rachel K. Jones of the Guttmacher Institute, also found that more than half (58%) of all pill users rely on the method, at least in part, for purposes other than pregnancy prevention—meaning that only 42% use the pill exclusively for contraceptive reasons.
Adverse Health Outcomes in Women Exposed In Utero to Diethylstilbestrol (DES)
October 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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.
Do Girls Who Flow Together Go Together?
September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re:cycling
September 8th, 2011 by Elizabeth Kissling
Guest Post by Harriet Hall, M.D.
When women live together, do their menstrual cycles tend to synchronize? It’s been a long time since I first heard that claim. I didn’t believe it, for a number of reasons. I had never observed it myself, I saw no plausible mechanism to explain how it could happen, I thought the statistics to prove it would be problematic and complicated, and I suspected that confirmation bias and selective memory might have persuaded people that a spurious correlation existed. How often do women say “Oh, look! We’re having our periods at the same time”? How often do they say “Oh, look! We’re having our periods at different times”? Now that many years have passed since my first encounter, I thought it would be fun to revisit the claim and see whether science has supported it or rejected it.
Falling Fertility Rates Around The World Will Cause Mass Depopulation
August 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Prevent Disease
The Economist reported this week that falling fertility rates around the world spell doom for many countries as the single life appeals to more women than replacing themselves through children.
For hundreds of years, the world’s population has grown steadily. But demographers now believe that within several decades, the number of people on earth will actually begin to decline. Women in the wealthier parts of Asia, for example, are literally on a “marriage strike” leading to a drop in birth rates.
Fertility options for women who’s ‘biological clock’s are running out – Tonight on Holy Hormones Honey!
August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
08.15.11 Author Rachel Lehmann- Haupt will join me to discuss her book ‘In Her Own Sweet Time – Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood’ on Holy Hormones Honey Radio on KRFC FM on Monday August 15.
EXCLUSIVE: Antidepressants and Breast, Ovarian Cancer Link Suggested
August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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.
“Mommy, Where Do Babies Come From?” Time for “The Talk”
August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When is the right time to have “The Talk” with your child? This week’s topic suggested by Wakefield Patch reader Melissa.
Wakefield Patch
August 2011
Tasha Schlake Festel
Anyone who knows me knows I’ll talk about pretty much anything, anytime, anywhere… often to my husband’s chagrin. This generally applies to my children as well. However, to be honest, prior to this week’s topic, I hadn’t spent a lot of time considering how I was going to discuss sex with my kids. They’re 5 and 7. Sex isn’t on my radar for impending discussions, unlike “you may not hit in kindergarten” and “there is a difference between being honest and being a jerk.”
Are New Vaccines Laced With Birth-Control Drugs?
July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
EducateYourself.org
By J.A. Miller, correspondent for Human Life International.
http://educate-yourself.org/vcd/vcdvaccineslacedwithbirthcontrol.shtml
June/July 1995
Originally published in HLI Reports, Human Life International, Gaithersburg, Maryland; June/July 1995, Volume 13, Number 8
Are New Vaccines Laced With Birth-Control Drugs?
During the early 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been overseeing massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in a number of countries, among them Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines. In October 1994, HLI received a communication from its Mexican affiliate, the Comite’ Pro Vida de Mexico, regarding that country’s anti-tetanus campaign. Suspicious of the campaign protocols, the Comite’ obtained several vials of the vaccine and had them analyzed by chemists. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), a naturally occurring hormone essential for maintaining a pregnancy.
Should GPs lead the way in facing the facts about obesity and its link to breast cancer?
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Telegraph
United Kingdom
By Judith Potts Health and lifestyle
Last updated: July 27th, 2011
The believed causes of breast cancer are myriad and well-documented – family history; age; time and type of menopause (i.e. natural or induced by surgery where ovaries are removed); whether or not the woman has had children; over-indulgence of alcohol; smoking; HRT; a compromised immune system etc. To this long list has just been added the height of the person, the age at which a woman began menstruating and – perhaps most crucially – obesity.
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