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Post-Menopausal Study’s Final Results

After more than a decade and over 100 journal articles, the final results are in from the Women’s Health Initiative, the study that startled millions of post-menopausal women and doctors in 2002 by linking the commonly prescribed estrogen plus progestin hormone replacement therapy to increased risk of breast cancer and heart disease.

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Reproductive Biologists Move In Vitro Fertilization Knowledge Forward

Two new papers from reproductive biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with international partners, report advances in understanding the basic processes of sperm capacitation that may one day improve success rates of in vitro fertilization (IVF) by providing a shortcut to bypass problems, and may eventually lead to a male contraceptive.

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Women Wrongly Believe They Can’t Get Pregnant

More than half of unintended pregnancies in America happen to the 10 percent of women who are not using contraception. A new survey of 50 women seeking abortions from the Guttmacher Institute reveals the psychology behind not wanting to be pregnant but not doing anything to not get pregnant. Most participants believed they were at a low risk of pregnancy for a variety of reasons requiring various degrees of magical thinking.

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Sleep Answers: Sexual Dysfunction in Men

You just have to turn on the TV to know that there is an epidemic of male sexual dysfunction in America.  We are bombarded with ads for medications that improve erectile function and correct low testosterone levels.  However, what is rarely mentioned is the relationship of sleep and sleep disorders to sexual function.

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‘Morning-After Pill Brigade’ Protests for Better Emergency Contraception Access

A “roving band of feminists” organized by the National Women’s Liberation (NWL) took to the streets, or rather the aisles, in New York City Saturday to protest pharmacies that restrict over-the-counter access to Plan B One-Step.
 

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