Many contaminants have a more subtle effect than simply killing cells. Some mimic hormones, like sex hormones. A team from Yale School of Medicine has presented at the 2008 Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Annual Scientific Meeting held on March 26-29 in San Diego, California, a study detailing how synthet... |
2 April 2008
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The fact that stress decreases a woman's fertility is known. But a new research published in the "Annals of Behavioral Medicine" shows that daily stress can go much further than that, decreasing women's immune system capacity to defend a common sexually transmitted disease, leaving them vulnerable for devel... |
20 February 2008
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Hormones come with unwanted secondary effects, while the knife dreads anyone. The new contraceptive method destined to women involves none of these and lasts just 15 minutes. The procedure has the role of impeding women getting pregnant and implies the use of radio waves for making a lesion at the level of the fallop... |
7 January 2008
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Modern life gets us in contact with an increased number of cancer inducing or boosting factors, from pollutants to food additives and stress. And while the number of cancer patients grows, so do their survival rates due to ceaseless research on the medical field and cancer turns into a chronic condition. A life partn... |
11 September 2007
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There are more and more mysteries about the sharks' reproductive abilities, besides the already known facts, like the double penis and the siblings' intrauterine cannibalism. Recently, the first case of asexual reproduction (parthenogenesis) among sharks has been documented, a hammerhead female shark at a N... |
26 June 2007
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The world is still in search of an anti-HIV cure, but even so, the antivirals employed currently can manage to prolong the life of the infected ones for decades. Generations of children who could not reach sexual maturity before, are able to do this now. But these youngsters do not grow healthy, as the root of the ev... |
30 April 2007
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the last solution to which sterile couples resort and many physicians prescribe the steroid hormones called glucocorticoids, as they have powerful effects on triggering the body's inflammatory and immune responses, in order to make the lining of the uterus more receptive to embryo... |
12 March 2007
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