| After a year without pregnancy | | Posted Saturday, February 10, 2007 12:46:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | INABILITY to conceive a child despite trying for one year is often the grounds upon which investigations for infertility can commence. The fact is even a completely healthy couple can't expect to get pregnant at the drop of a hat and just about 20 per cent of women who want to conceive become pregnant in the first ovulation cycle they try. We know that to become pregnant, a couple must have intercourse during the woman's fertile time of the month, which is right before and during ovulation. The obvious problem is difficulty pin-pointing the exact day of ovulation, yet having intercourse often during the approximate time maximizes the chances of conception. After a year of frequent intercourse without contraception that doesn't result in pregnancy, a couple is usually advised to go to a health-care professional for an evaluation.... | |
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| | | HEALTH CALENDAR, NOV. 13, 2006 | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:52:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Neuroscience of Anxiety and Its Treatment, 1-5 p.m. Nov. 17, $38, Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas, 555 N. Woodlawn, Suite 3105. Information,316-685-1821, ext. 297. Individuals With Attention Deficient Disorder: Setting Boundaries, 7 p.m. Nov. 13, free, Kansas Children's Service League, 1365 N. Custer. Information, 316-942-4261, ext. 1315. Hope and Help Through the Holidays, for those grieving a loss through death, separation, divorce, deployment, etc., 3 p.m. Nov. 18, Christ the King, 4411 Maple, Charity Hall. Free. Information, 316-685-5240. Overeaters Anonymous Celebrate Abstinence From Compulsive Eating, 1-3 p.m. Nov. 18, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 7404 Killarney Place. Information, 316-267-5857. Validation and Reality Therapy, 11:30 p.m.... | |
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| | | Fitting the female form Do new prosthetic knees for women really make a difference? | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:46:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Dr. Thomas Hoerner, wearing a surgical mask and gown, slipped a metal prosthetic piece over the end of his female patient's thigh bone during a knee-replacement procedure last month. It fit nicely. "A woman's femur tends to be narrower," he said, pointing out how this new implant, made specifically for women, fits the bone without sticking out at the edges. A traditional implant, used in men and women, would have been slightly wider for the same length, he said, maybe even a little wider than her bone. Doctors have known for years that women's knees are different from men's. Women's knees are narrower, they attach at a slightly different angle, and they are more prone to injury. Now the business world is catching on. As scientists learn more about the biomechanics of women's bodies, companies are using the information to market everything from women's mountain bikes to women's knee braces.... | |
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| | | Like what you see? I must be fertile | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 6:46:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Fertility may play a role in women's fashion and accessorizing, according to a report in the online version of Hormones and Behavior. Researchers tracked a full ovulation cycle of 30 women in committed relationships and photographed them at their least and most fertile phases. A panel of 42 men and women looked at each pair of photos and selected the one that they thought depicted the women trying to look most attractive (via attentive grooming, eye-catching clothing, etc.; the women's faces were not visible). Sixty percent of the selected photos were of the women at their most fertile time of the month. DETAILS, DETAILS Shoe shoppers should pay attention to specific details, not just price, when purchasing athletic shoes, podiatrists say. • Avoid shoes made with all-Velcro straps.... | |
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| | | Vitamins may help ovulation | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 12:18:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | SOME infertile women could improve their chances of having children by taking multivitamin tablets, research in the US has suggested. The dietary supplements can protect against failure to ovulate, according to a Harvard Medical School study of 18,000 nurses over eight years. Women who took multivitamins six times a week were 40 per cent less likely to fail to ovulate than those who took none. Less frequent use had a smaller effect. Ovulation failure affects 8.4 per cent of those in Britain who have problems conceiving. .... | |
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| | | Vitamin pills 'can reduce infertility' | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:46:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | Taking multivitamins while trying for a baby substantially reduces the chances of women suffering one of the most common causes of female infertility, according to research. American scientists found women who took the dietary supplements at least six times a week were more than 40 per cent less likely to have fertility problems linked to ovulation. They believe a number of nutrients in multivitamins could be behind the protective effect but that folic acid plays the most significant role. .... | |
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| | | Science | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:46:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | Global climate change isn't just a problem of the industrial age. Dinosaurs had to cope with it, too, geologists have found. The carbon and nitrogen content of ancient rocks retrieved from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean 1,000 miles east of Japan indicate that ocean surface temperatures fluctuated by as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit during the Cretaceous period 120 million years ago. .... | |
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| | | Ovulating women dress to impress | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:46:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Women dress to impress when they are at their most fertile, researchers said Tuesday in a study they say shows that signs of human ovulation may not be as mysterious as some scientists believe. A study of young college women showed they frequently wore more fashionable or flashier clothing and jewelry when they were ovulating, as assessed by a panel of men and women looking at their photographs. "They tend to put on skirts instead of pants, show more skin and generally dress more fashionably," said Martie Haselton, a communication studies and psychology expert at the University of California Los Angeles who led the study. Writing in the journal Hormones and Behavior, Haselton and colleagues said their findings disproved the conventional wisdom that women are unique among animals in concealing, even from themselves, when they are most fertile.... | |
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| | | U. doctor disputes claims for the 'morning-after' pill | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:46:17 PM by Blog57 Team | | Plan B, the "morning-after" contraceptive recently approved for over-the-counter use, is not as effective as a drug company claims, and there is no evidence that the pill's widespread use will reduce the rate of abortions or unwanted pregnancies, argues a Utah doctor who sat on the Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel. On top of that, Plan B can act as an "abortifacient" ? sometimes not preventing fertilization but preventing implantation instead ? contends Dr. Joseph Stanford, associate professor of family and preventative medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. This biological nuance is important to people who believe that life begins at fertilization, when the sperm enters the egg, versus others who believe it begins at implantation, when the embryo is implanted in the endometrium.... | |
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| | | Birth control furor in Chile | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:46:18 AM by Blog57 Team | | SANTIAGO, Chile -- Chile began supplying morning-after pills to girls as young as 14 this week under a program that has created an uproar in a country that still outlaws abortions and legalized divorce only two years ago. The liberalized contraceptive policy is close to the heart of President Michelle Bachelet, a socialist physician who is Chile's first female president. The program provides contraceptives -- including the morning-after pill -- to girls as young as 14 without notifying their parents. Until now, the age limit was 16, and the morning-after pill was given only to women who had been raped. .... | |
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