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Working Moms Are Healthier Than Stay-At-Home Moms, Sociologist Finds
Working moms striving to have it all now can add another perk to their list of benefits - health. New research from University of Akron Assistant Sociology Professor Adrianne Frech...
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Women with a Healthy Lifestyle Are More Likely to Live 15 Years Longer
Women with a healthy lifestyle such as a Mediterranean diet, regular exercise, not smoking, and maintaining a healthy weight, are more likely to live 15 years longer than their les...
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Early Menopause: A Mouse Model Of Human POI
Scientists have established a genetic mouse model for primary ovarian insufficiency (POI), a human condition in which women experience irregular menstrual cycles and reduced fertil...
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Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea: Only One Treatment Left For Sexually Transmitted Disease
CHICAGO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are urging doctors to stop using a key antibiotic to treat routine cases of gonorrhea due to signs of bacterial resistance, leaving...
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Why Menopause Evolved
The menopause evolved, in part, to prevent competition between a mother and her new daughter-in-law, according to research published in the journal Ecology Letters. The study - by ...
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Multiple Abortions May Increase Risk Of Prematurity And Low Birth Weight In Future Pregnancies
One of the largest studies to look at the effect of induced abortions on a subsequent first birth has found that women who have had three or more abortions have a higher risk of de...
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Study Provides Insight Into Why Severely Obese Women Have Difficulty Getting Pregnant From IVF
Now, a novel study led by Catherine Racowsky, PhD, director of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), and performed by Ronit Macht...
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Republican Ryan Says Obama Panders to Extremists on Abortion
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan launched a broad assault on President Barack Obama in a speech to social conservatives on Friday, acc...
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Scientists Discover Potential to Aid Fertility
Women who want to conceive but cannot often find it an emotionally wrenching experience. Because scientists believe that women produce only a limited number of eggs before menopaus...
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Just A Single HPV Protein Required For Cervical Cancer And Pre-Cancer Cervical Growths
Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV protein is required for ...
