Type and Timing of Menopause and Later Life Mortality among Women in the Iowa Established Populations for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (EPESE) Cohort

The relationship between menopausal characteristics and later life mortality is unclear. We tested the hypotheses that women with surgical menopause would have increased all-cause and cardiovascular mortality compared with women with natural menopause, and that women with earlier ages at natural or surgical menopause would have greater all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than women with later ages at menopause.

A new voice in the HPV vaccine debate

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On a day when CJAD News was discussing the story of a family intending to sue a massive pharmaceutical company for $200 000 after their daughter died soon after receiving the anti-HPV (Human papillomavirus) vaccine Gardasil, researcher Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic joined Aaron for a fascinating discussion about the safety of the vaccine.

NIH Study shows caffeine consumption linked to estrogen changes

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      For Immediate Release Thursday, January 26, 2012 Contact: Robert Bock or John McGrath 301-496-5133 Moderate caffeine intake associated with higher level for Asians, lower for whites Asian women who consumed an average of 200 milligrams or more of caffeine a day — the equivalent of roughly two cups of coffee — had Continue Reading …

The Problem(s) with Sex

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The Chronicle of Higher Education January 21, 2012, 6:55 am By David Barash Sex is a problem for evolutionary biologists, a very big problem.  (Let’s be clear: we don’t personally have any more difficulty with it than does anyone else; it’s strictly a professional problem!)  And here it is: By all rights, sex shouldn’t exist. Continue Reading …

Alongside Scientists Exploring Why Women Menstruate

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 Society for Menstrual Cycle Research re: Cycling January 19th, 2012 by Alexandra Jacoby I read a blog post about a paper (that I have not read). The post is “Why do women menstruate?“ by PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, blogging at Pharyngula. The paper is “The evolution of menstruation: A Continue Reading …

Circadian rhythms in the fetus

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PubMed.gov Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2012 Feb 5;349(1):68-75. Epub 2011 Aug 5. Serón-Ferré M, Mendez N, Abarzua-Catalan L, Vilches N, Valenzuela FJ, Reynolds HE, Llanos AJ, Rojas A, Valenzuela GJ, Torres-Farfan C. Source Programa de Fisiopatología, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas (ICBM), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile. Abstract Throughout gestation, the close relationship between mothers Continue Reading …

Excuse Me Waiter – There’s a Fly in My Vaccine Soup!

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Vac Truth By Sandy Lunoe | January 21st, 2012 |   We can laugh at the waiter’s reply to our complaint about the fly in our soup:   “- Never mind, it won’t eat much!”  However it is no joke that vaccines may contain residue from insect cells, yeast, mouse brains, tissue from pigs, guinea pigs, Continue Reading …

Mechanisms of Aluminum Adjuvant Revealed: Vaccine Risks to Children Clarified

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Gaia Health January 14, 2012 A new journal report destroys the concept that adjuvant-based vaccines are safe for children. The methods by which aluminum acts as a vaccine adjuvant and how that can affect a developing child are examined. It leaves little room to doubt that we’ve been playing with the health and future of our Continue Reading …

Medical journal openly questions science, ethics of HPV vaccinations

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Natural News January 13, 2o11 by Norma Erickson and Leslie Carol Botha, SANE Vax Inc. On January 12, 2011 the Annals of Medicine published a ground-breaking peer-reviewed paper titled, Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine policy and evidence-based medicine: Are they at odds?, 1 written by renowned researchers Lucija Tomljenovic, Ph.D.,and Christopher Shaw, Ph.D., with the Neural Continue Reading …

Estrogen levels higher among black women during menstrual cycle

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Posted on August 31, 2011

Marsh EE. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2011;doi:10.1210/jc.2011-1314.

New data suggest that black women have higher levels of estradiol and lower androstenedione-to-estradiol ratios throughout the menstrual cycle compared with white women, a trend that may contribute to differences in the incidence and prevalence of health issues between these two populations.