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The more I learn about contaminants in the environment, the more I shop at the local organic market—but it can be expensive. At a recent lecture held at Northwestern on the Environment and Women’s Reproductive Health, I learned that some fruits and vegetables are likely more contaminated than others. So the key to healthier eating [...]
An inexpensive instructional program to teach routine newborn care skills to midwives in Zambia resulted in a substantial reduction in the death rate of infants in the first week of life, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The study, published online in Pediatrics, [...]
Fat talk (women speaking negatively about the size and shape of their bodies) is a popular phenomenon among college women according to a study done by researchers at U of Wisconsin and Northwestern University. Rachel Salk and Renee Engeln-Maddox interviewed 168 female students at a midwestern U.S. university. Their work was published in the Psychology [...]
Choosing a treatment option for breast cancer can be almost as confusing and frightening as the diagnosis itself. But it doesn’t have to be. A new study from the University of Michigan has found that women make smarter choices about treatments when they receive information and make decisions in small doses rather than all at [...]
It has been reported in the past that obesity (body fat mass) is protective against osteoporosis and fracture. However, a recent study has documented a high prevalence of obesity in postmenopausal women with fragility fracture. An international group of researchers has presented research at the European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis that compares the prevalence [...]
Now that so many women are balancing school, family, and work, it’s hard to find time to stand up for women’s causes. But it is important and it does work. Recently a prominent surgeon wrote a Valentine’s Day editorial about the mood enhancing effects of semen on women during unprotected sex. He cited a research [...]
Today, over 250 health professionals attended our monthly forum on the environment and reproductive health and I am certain that no one left the room doubting that the chemicals we are exposed to at home, at work, in our food, and in the air are harmful to reproductive health. Dr. Tracey Woodruff from the Program [...]
Male fetuses most vulnerable to alcohol. Exposure to alcohol in the womb doesn’t affect all fetuses equally. Why does one woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy give birth to a child with physical, behavioral or learning problems — known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder — while another woman who also drinks has a child without [...]
Addictive eating behavior and substance dependence have similar patterns of brain activity, finds a new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale. The study is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and is the first to link symptoms of addictive eating behavior with specific patterns of brain activity in [...]
We aren’t sure how Bisphenol A (BPA) (found in plastic food containers) affects human beings — especially developing fetuses and young children — and if concerning test results in animal subjects translate to people. Should BPA be banned from baby bottles, as it has been in other countries like Canada? Unfortunately, our ability to [...]
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