More than 5 million women in the United States have the condition, the National Women’s Health Information Center says. The agency says certain factors may place you at higher risk:
Starting your period at a young age.
Having heavy periods.
Periods that last for longer than seven days.
Short menstrual cycles — 27 days or less.
Having a close female [...]
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Babies conceived with the aid of fertility treatments are more likely to suffer birth defects, according to a study conducted by Ottawa researchers.
In an examination of 61,208 Ontario births from 2005, researchers found that 2.6 per cent of those babies conceived through assisted reproduction had birth defects, compared to 1.9 per cent of those conceived [...]
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Metformin, a drug used to treat diabetes and thought to hold great promise at overcoming the infertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), is less useful for helping women with the condition achieve pregnancy than is the standard treatment with the infertility drug clomiphene, report researchers in an NIH research network.
This study is the largest, [...]
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Roughly 10 percent of couples are unable to conceive after one year of unprotected sex. Couples in this situation may use a commonly recommended treatment, intrauterine insemination with controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. However, this treatment is costly and involves the risk of multiple births.This technique, which involves depositing sperm into the women’s uterus and stimulating her [...]
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One of the leading causes of infertility is often misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome or PCOS, often leads to abnormal periods, abnormal weight gain, and hair growth. Many women with the syndrome are insulin resistant and have abnormal cholesterol levels. But with proper testing and treatment, women lose weight, return to normal insulin, and cholesterol [...]
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What's so different about women? Just a sampling:
Women wake from anesthesia more quickly than men.
Medications, such as antihistamines and antibiotics, cause different side effects in women, partly due to women's hormonal cycles.
Women are more susceptible to immunity diseases like multiple sclerosis and lupus.
Women who are the same weight and consume the same amount of alcohol [...]
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Remember the population bomb? The new threat to the planet is not too many people but too few. How the new demography will shape the coming century.
By Michael Meyer
Newsweek International
Sept. 27 issue - Everyone knows there are too many people in the world. Whether we live in Lahore or Los Angeles, Shanghai or So Paulo, [...]
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