Adult women who survived cancer as a child report having less sex, less interest, less desire and less satisfaction than their sisters who never had cancer, according to a new study.
Month: August 2014
Synthetic Protein Offers New Hope for Male Infertility
A research team from Queen’s University in Canada, led by Richard Oko, has indentified a method of inducing fertilization using a synthetic version of the protein PAWP found in sperm cells.
Years Ago, ‘People Didn’t Talk About’ Infertility
The doctor who has helped usher Stacey and Chad Baker through their years of fertility treatment has watched his discipline ever so slowly emerge as a routine conversation topic.
Dissolving Tampons Deliver HIV Drugs (and Maybe Contraception, Too)
University of Washington researchers have come up with a whole new way to deliver HIV-killing microbicides: a dissolving tampon.
Baby Pictures at the Doctor’s? Cute, Sure, but Illegal
For generations, obstetricians and midwives across America have proudly posted photographs of the babies they have delivered on their office walls. But this pre-digital form of social media is gradually going the way of cigars in the waiting room, because of the federal patient privacy law known as HIPAA.
Egg-Freezing Allows Women to Buy Time for Motherhood
Through her 20s and early 30s, pediatrician Kristie Manning was so neck-deep in medical school and training that she had no time to focus on having children. Still single, the Pleasanton native isn’t ready to start a family by herself.
Couple That Fought to Ban Medical Procedure After Wife’s Cancer Looks Back at Year of Changes
Noorchashm, a cardio-thoracic surgeon, and his wife Dr. Amy Reed, a certified-anesthesiologist, spearheaded a campaign last fall to ban the practice of using laparoscopic power morcellation in the removal of uterine fibroids or the uterus due to possible cancer risks.
How Women Are ‘Freezing’ The Biological Clock
It was money she doesn’t regret spending. McKay is now the mother of chubby, vocal two-month-old named Maximillion. She is also just one of the growing number of British and European women who are using the controversial-but-improving technology of egg freezing to open up their window of fertility and beat the ever-ticking biological clock.
19th-Century Classified Ads for Abortifacients and Contraceptives
This compilation of classified ads, from the New York Herald and the New York Sun, shows how contraception, cures for sexually transmitted diseases, abortifacients, and abortion services were advertised in New York City during one week in December, 1841.
Women Have More Options for Relieving Menopausal Symptoms
More than 15 years after Viagra hit the market and former Sen. Bob Dole brought the term “erectile dysfunction” into American living rooms, hot flashes and vaginal dryness – along with the other symptoms of menopause – are starting to get their due.