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For years,the number of female-controlled birth control options skyrocketed, starting with drug trials for oral contraceptives beginning in the 1950s, and public availability of the Pill made possible during the early 1960s. By the mid-1960s, millions of women were using oral contraceptives. Planned Parenthood was establishing itself in a number of states, and women enjoyed [...]
A new study uncovers a brain mechanism that could be targeted for new medications designed to help people quit smoking without gaining weight. This research, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, shows that a specific subclass of brain nicotinic receptor is involved in nicotine’s ability [...]
A new report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends that eight preventive health services for women be added to the services that health plans will cover at no cost to patients under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). The ACA requires plans to cover the services listed in the U.S. [...]
To many, a tax on soda is a no-brainer in advancing the nation’s war on obesity. Advocates point to a number of studies in recent years that conclude that sugary drinks have a lot to do with why Americans are getting fatter. But obese people tend to drink diet sodas, and therefore taxing soft drinks [...]
Researchers are exploring how hormone levels impact certain brain activity during the menstrual cycle and the results may influence how birth control pills doses are prescribed to women with conditions like epilepsy in the future. Increased levels of certain reproductive steroids correspond to more frequent generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) in women with epilepsy, according to [...]
Disordered eating behaviors are not just an adolescent problem, according to a 10-year longitudinal study of both women and men that University of Minnesota researchers recently completed. Hoping to assess eating pathology during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, and to track disordered eating patterns over time, researchers recruited over 4,000 young men and [...]
Summer allows more time for children to play outdoors, but when kids (and grown-ups, too) are covered with bug bites after spending time outside, we start to worry about disease spread by ticks, such as Lyme disease, or by mosquitoes, such as West Nile virus. Luckily, there are simple steps to prevent bites and diseases [...]
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