A group of Catonsville nuns who claimed that the new federal health care law’s contraceptive coverage requirement would violate their religious beliefs are actually exempt from the mandate, a U.S. district judge concluded Friday.
Month: December 2013
Face It: You Can’t Have a Baby Whenever You Want
Selvaratnam, 42, has now poured her considerable energy into a book detailing her experience with infertility, called The Big Lie: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. It’s a bold title. It may bother you. It may even seem disingenuous: After all, only 10 to 20 percent of women over 35 will be unable to get pregnant after six months of trying to conceive. But Selvaratnam’s intention is to provoke.
Environment: Nonstick-Cookware Chemicals in Breast Milk and Menopausal Women Raise Concerns
Two new studies of perfluorinated compounds in women raise concerns. In the first, the longer the women nursed their babies, the higher the levels of certain compounds in their babies’ blood. In the second, higher levels in women were associated with early menopause.
The Most Common Diagnoses and Treatments for Infertility
Today, one in every six couples struggle with infertility. While every situation is different, Dr. Jennifer Hirshfeld-Cytron of Fertility Centers of Illinois provided this list of the five most common diagnoses and treatment solutions.
Infertility Expert: Risk of Twins Worth Toll ‘In Vitro’ Can Take
Pregnancy is now a dream within reach for those who have trouble with conception thanks to advances in assisted reproduction. But as recent reports have shown, doctors are facing a catch-22 when it comes too many moms birthing two babies at once.
Top Cancer Centers Lack Policies to Protect Cancer Patients’ Fertility
Infertility is consistently listed as one of the most distressing long-term side effects of cancer treatment for adolescents and young adults. Yet the leading National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers — which should be leaders in fertility preservation — aren’t doing an adequate job of helping patients protect their fertility, reports a new Northwestern Medicine- study.
Confirmed: Surgical Menopause Linked to Cognitive Decline
The earlier the age of surgical menopause, the faster the decline in cognition, particularly in areas of episodic and semantic memory, and the more Alzheimer disease (AD) neuropathology, new results suggest.
London Sees ‘Boom’ in Sperm Donation
Lawyers, film-makers and financiers are behind a sperm donation “boom” in the capital.New figures published today give an insight for the first time into the profile of donors. Instead of students, professionals are now among altruistic Londoners helping childless couples become parents.
America’s ‘Virgin Births’? One in 200 Mothers ‘Became Pregnant Without Having Sex’
The findings were based on a study of 7,870 women and girls aged 15 to 28.
Sex Drive Ruined by Antidepressants? Just 30 Minutes of Exercise Can Help
Exercise may hold the key to combatting some of the negative side effects that antidepressants can have on a woman’s sex drive.