http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The Obama administration and federal courts are wrangling over changes to the regulations governing access to emergency contraceptives. The administration supports new rules that would allow girls as young as 15 to purchase the drug without a prescription, while a New York judge has ordered it be made available to anyone, regardless of age. With those changes pending, Northeastern University news office asked Todd Brown, vice chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, to explore the issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-future.html Medications Tue, 14 May 2013 07:00:01 EST news287732980 Despite most parents ultimately just wishing for a healthy baby, there are many cultural and social factors that can drive the desire for a baby of a particular sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-medical-myth-sex-baby.html Health Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:46:05 EST news285410747 Even though there are many women who do not notice any special symptoms, there are some whose pre-menstrual disorders hamper their everyday lives: depressive mood, anxiety, excessive emotional sensitivity, fatigue, lack of concentration, headache, etc. Nevertheless, according to Leire Aperribai, PhD holder in Psychology from the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, unified criteria for defining and diagnosing this disease have yet to be agreed on, "and so it is difficult to develop suitable interventions to treat women suffering from these symptoms." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-pre-menstrual-syndrome.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:31:52 EST news275308293 (HealthDay)—The frequency of respiratory symptoms, including wheeze, shortness of breath, and cough, varies throughout the menstrual cycle, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-respiratory-symptoms-vary-menstrual.html Health Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:40:01 EST news273753309 An Ottawa scientist has discovered a critical reason why women experience fertility problems as they get older. The breakthrough by Dr. Johné Liu, a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and professor at the University of Ottawa, also points to a simple solution that could increase the viability of egg cells for women in their late 30s and older—putrescine water. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-putrescine-fountain-youth-eggs.html Medical research Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:15:52 EST news273158143 Long after women have chosen Mr. Stable over Mr. Sexy, they struggle unconsciously with the decision, according to a new study by UCLA researchers who look at subtle changes in behavior during ovulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-when-she-says-it-not.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:40:47 EST news270355197 One of the most frequent is the existence of tumours that induce an over-secretion of this hormone. These women present with chronic infertility due to anovulation. Thanks to the work of the Inserm researchers from unit 693 "Steroid receptors: endocrinian and metabolic physiopathology", the intimate mechanism of the hyperprolactinaemia alterations affecting reproduction in mice has been discovered. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-infertility-ovulation-function.html Medical research Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:19:19 EST news269698751 (Medical Xpress) -- Could ovulation be the link to ovarian cancer? Joanna Burdette of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy thinks it might be, and she's working to find out. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-ovarian-cancer-linked-ovulation.html Cancer Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:11:03 EST news262365057 Women using fertility drugs who did not conceive a 10-plus week pregnancy were at a statistically significant reduced risk of breast cancer compared to nonusers; however, women using the drugs who conceived a 10-plus week pregnancy had a statistically significant increased risk of breast cancer compared to unsuccessfully treated women, but a comparable risk to nonusers, according to a study published July 6 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-fertility-drug-usage-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:00:01 EST news260799723 Nice guys do finish last at least when it comes to procreation according to a study from The University of Texas at San Antonio that answers the question of why women choose bad boys. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-ovulating-women-sexy-cads-good.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 14 May 2012 14:01:33 EST news256222744 Women who have just finished ovulating are better at detecting snakes than at other times of their menstrual cycle, according to an unusual study that sheds light on in-built reflexes for survival. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-hisss-women-snakes.html Other Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:09:35 EST news250441762 A new research report in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology suggests that a woman's ovarian cycle plays an important role in her susceptibility to infection. Specifically, researchers from Spain and Austria found that women are most susceptible to infection, such as Candida albicans or other sexually transmitted diseases, during ovulation than at any other time during the reproductive cycle. This natural "dip" in immunity may be to allow spermatozoa to survive the threat of an immune response so it may fertilize an egg successfully. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-females-susceptible-infection-ovulation.html Health Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:29:46 EST news244812574 Women who take the Pill tend to choose as partners men who are less attractive and worse in bed but a sounder bet for a long-term relationship, according to an unusual study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-women-pill-dud-bed-dude.html Other Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:17:09 EST news237615418 A pioneering Australian doctor known for his groundbreaking work on the world's first pregnancy through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has died after a long illness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ivf-doctor-dies-australia.html Other Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:03:27 EST news236314984 The voice can reveal a lot about a person - their sex, their age, how they are feeling - and recent studies have even suggested that women's voices might also contain cues that men can read about how close they are to ovulation. A new study, however, published today in the journal PLoS ONE, challenges the view that women broadcast reproductive information in their voice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-women-voices-men-ovulation.html Medical research Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:59:50 EST news235846775 Eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are associated with fertility problems and negative attitudes to pregnancy, according to a UK study. The research also revealed high rates of unplanned pregnancies in women with a history of anorexia, suggesting they may be underestimating their chances of conceiving. The study is to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-disorders-fertility-reveals-picture.html Health Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:40:04 EST news231560813 This meant that the calendar method predicted ovulation correctly in only one in four women, whereas the ClearBlue Digital Ovulation test (20 test pack) predicted correctly in 99% of women over the same period. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-simple-accurate-ovulation-women-pregnant.html Medical research Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:01:44 EST news229078889 A new study by psychologists at the University of Toronto and Tufts University shows that a woman can more accurately identify a man's sexual orientation when looking at his face, when she is closest to her time of peak ovulation. Further, having romantic thoughts or a mating goal heightens a woman's ability to discriminate between straight and gay men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-psychologists-link-ovulation-women-ability.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:50:07 EST news227976595 In recent years several studies have suggested that women's voices change at different times over the menstrual cycle, with the tone rising as ovulation approaches. Now a study conducted by researchers at the West Texas A&M University in which women's voices were subjected to computerized acoustical analysis contradicts those findings. After assessing 175 samples provided by 35 study participants at various points throughout the menstrual cycles, the researchers say that changes in hormonal status have no significant impact on eight distinct voice parameters. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-women-voices-steady-month.html Medical research Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:30:02 EST news221746063