New research found that eating orange and yellow fruits and vegetables may make sperm swim faster, while eating red vegetables may increase the production of healthy sperm.
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Now, a Kiss Isn’t Just a Kiss
Is there any recent research that would explain the etiology of geographic tongue, and which foods aggravate the condition?
Politics of the Pill: Why We Don’t Have Better Contraceptives
More than 50 years after Australian women first had access to the oral contraceptive pill, research into new contraceptives has stalled and women are stuck with new versions of old products to manage their fertility. Why? Sadly, the answer comes down to politics.
Better Access to Contraceptives for Parents Means Better Outcomes for Children
What’s the long-term impact of access to birth control and family planning? The economist Martha J. Bailey pulled together decades of data and research on families surrounding two major policy changes in the United States: laws banning the sale of contraceptives and their repeal, and the expansion of federal funding for local family-planning clinics during the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee
Many online journals are ready to publish bad research in exchange for a credit card number. That’s the conclusion of an elaborate sting carried out by Science, a leading mainline journal. The result should trouble doctors, patients, policymakers and anyone who has a stake in the integrity of science (and who doesn’t?).
Women’s Lower Risk for Cardiovascular Disease May be Tied to Reproduction
New research shows that once women hit menopause, their risk of heart disease is the same as the risk for men.
Embracing Desperation in Fertility
New research shows that negative emotions, like desperation and anger, often deepen a patient’s involvement in decision-making and cause them to deliberate carefully, rather than consigning them to paralyzed indecision or blind commitment to unrealistic goals.
Hormone Therapy Risks May Vary by Weight, Other Factors
For a woman contemplating taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT), the increase in breast cancer risk she faces may depend on her individual body type, race and ethnicity, according to new U.S. research.
Promiscuity and Sperm Selection Improves Genetic Quality in Birds
New research from the University of East Anglia has shown that females can maximise the genetic quality of their offspring by being promiscuous. Researchers studied red junglefowl (the wild ancestor of the domestic chicken) in a collaborative project with the University of Oxford, Stockholm University and Linköping University.
Infertility Affects Women’s Lives Differently Based on Social Class
For women, finding out that they are unable to have children means something different depending on their social class, recent research suggests.