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What's the Purpose of Menopause in Women?

We are a very odd species in many ways. For example, female animals too experience menopause and become sterile after a certain age, but this means a very close end to their lives. But women start releasing mature eggs at puberty age, and menstruation is installed at around the age of 13. By the age of 50, the egg re...

1 November 2007
09:37 GMT

Jennifer Lopez Is Having a Pretty Bad Year - Oh, Well, At Least She's Pregnant

Jennifer Lopez is not having the best time of her life - professionally speaking, that is. But there is an upside to her new album tanking, to her label being close to dumping her and to her new movie being a complete flop and being released straight to DVD in January when it is released. You guessed it - yet another...

1 November 2007
07:10 GMT

Smoking Mothers Will Have Obese Children

Nicotine pumped by smoking mothers into their babies growing inside the wombs is known to affect the brain's development, causing long-term behavioral and learning impairment. A 2007 research found that nicotine in the breast milk shortens a baby's sleep time. And this new Japanese research points to anothe...

1 November 2007
05:28 GMT

Never-Before Seen Anna Nicole Smith Video Footage Tells Tragic Story

Dead people should be allowed to rest in peace - or so it is said, but when it comes to tragic blonde Anna Nicole Smith and the mysteries that surround part of her life and her death, that's not quite so. And if you thought the story of her life and death was a closed book, think again: Fox has just aired some n...

24 October 2007
05:35 GMT

Having Sex Before Giving Birth Does Not Trigger Labor!

Most pregnant women stop having sex a few weeks before giving birth, as there is a widespread idea that having sex late in pregnancy could trigger labor. But this was found to be just a myth by a team led by Dr Peng Chiong Tan of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. "This study is not the final word on...

20 October 2007
06:03 GMT

Drinking Mothers Deliver Boys with Abnormal Testicles

In almost half the cases, man is the cause of a couple's infertility. In the last 4 decades, male fertility has been plummeting in developed countries, with sperm count decreasing by 1.5 % annually in the US and 3% in Europe and Australia. This, combined with the tendency of later pregnancies (that is after a wo...

10 October 2007
14:11 GMT

Halle Berry Just Won't Shut Up about Her Gorgeous Man

I know Halle Berry can be pretty annoying at times - and I had a feeling her pregnancy might at some point bring out that particular side of hers - but I'm sure it's all due to hormones. And besides, it's cute to be pregnancy scared these days - it will make for a nice Oprah interview once she gives bi...

3 October 2007
04:46 GMT

Big Mamas Have Baby Boys

Naturally, about 103-106 boys are born, as compared to 100 girls (a birth sex ratio of 1.03-1.06). But as boys are weaker, at the adult age there will be a sex ratio of about 100:100 (or 1). In the last decades, there has been registered a decrease in the number of baby boys born as compared to girls in industrialize...

25 September 2007
05:08 GMT

Nicole Richie Is Really, Really Pregnant

Isn't it sort of weird to see Nicole Richie pregnant? Don't get me wrong - it's not the pregnant part that I find just a bit strange - after all, pregnant is the way to go if you want to be the IT lady this season. Just look at all the celebrities either already pregnant, hoping to get pregnant, trying...

24 September 2007
04:28 GMT

Jennifer Lopez Is Officially Pregnant

It's official - Jennifer Lopez is finally pregnant. She hasn't made it public yet - but a friend confirmed that the singer was given the good news after she had an ultrasound on September 12th. The friend also stated that "the test calculated that she was about 12 weeks pregnant. She's due in the sprin...

19 September 2007
03:52 GMT

Is Angelina Pregnant Again?

If this is true, then I guess we're all in for some long months of rumors and speculation. The fact is, it wouldn't come as a very big surprise, given that both Angelina and Brad have openly and repeatedly stated that they want more children. "Brad and I would like to have more kids", Angelina stated recent...

17 September 2007
08:53 GMT

Shock of the Day: Nicole Richie IS Pregnant!

For weeks now we've been hearing nothing but rumors and speculations about Nicole Richie being pregnant. At first, the entire world went like 'What? She can't have a baby! She can barely take care of herself!' but, in time, as the dust began to settle and the 'Simple Life' star was still...

1 August 2007
09:02 GMT

Over 50 % of the Whales Killed Annually by the Japanese Whalers Are Pregnant!

Japan is considered one of the nations with the highest technology and assumes one of the highest life standards. That's why it's a shame that Japan is still defying the international ban of commercial whaling, which could lead to the extinction of 5 out of 13 great whale species. The abundance of whale mea...

31 July 2007
04:13 GMT

Pregnant XTina Is Not OK

Although there is no official confirmation, the entire world knows that Christina Aguilera is pregnant. Amidst rumors that she has her figure-hugging outfits altered weekly to fit her changing body and various sources coming out and stating for a fact that she is with child (including her very father, who was contact...

30 July 2007
06:10 GMT

Ashlee Simpson Is Next in Line for the Wedding Bells?

So "Live Earth" brought us good music with a peaceful message, like saving the planet and stuff. It looks like this event has brought much more to the (now) blonde Ashlee as her boyfriend, rocker Pete Wentz, who asked her to marry him. According to sources, Pete did it like in the movies, on one knee and with a huge ...

18 July 2007
09:41 GMT

Teen Pregnancies Have Reached Record Low

It seems that nowadays girls do not get fooled so easily anymore. A new report revealed that currently, less high school students are having sex, and condom use is on the rise. This triggered a record for the fewest teen pregnancies. Now more young people are also finishing high school and more little kids are being ...

14 July 2007
05:10 GMT

Obese Mothers Deliver Sick Children

Smoking and drinking scare most of the pregnant women, but for most of them, pregnancy is a pretext to pig out. "Physicians need to be aggressively counseling women about the importance of starting pregnancy at a healthy weight," said Temple University obstetrician-gynecologist, Dr. Vani Dandolu.His team discovered t...

13 July 2007
03:57 GMT

Christina Aguilera Pregnant

Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman have been telling friends that they are expecting their first baby by the end of this year. Or at least that's what the "New York Post" is saying. According to their source, which is a close friend of the couple, Christina is three months pregnant and should so...

23 June 2007
04:55 GMT

Extra Iron Can Be Harmful

Too much of anything, be it even a good thing, may result harmful. Iron is often taken against anemia, as it raises the blood's number of red blood cells. In pregnancy, women are preventively prescribed iron and many take extra iron separately or in a multivitamin pill. But a new research at Tarbiat Modarres Uni...

31 May 2007
09:26 GMT

Sex Problems and Resuming Sex after Birth, Linked to Race

A new research made at Birmingham, UK, found that about 33 % of women still experience painful sexual intercourse a year after they gave birth and less than 15 % were completely recovered. The research was made on 482 women, aged over 16 and from all ethnic groups, who followed a self-administered questionnaire at le...

29 March 2007
07:25 GMT

Didn't Salma Hayek Use to Be, Like, Really Hot?

When I'm asking you whether Salma used to be really hot or not, I'm not actually saying that she is ugly now. But, you see, a couple of months ago, her appearance in a magazine or at a press conference was good enough reason to make the entire world go va-voom (and especially guys)! Or have you already forg...

7 March 2007
09:31 GMT


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