Humans are unusual in that women go through menopause and stop reproducing long before reaching the end of their life expectancy. One theory holds that this aspect of human life history may be explained by the evolutionary ...
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Ancient Egyptian mummies revealed that humans have been hosting parasitic flatworms called schistosomes for more than 5,000 years. Today the parasites continue to plague millions of people across the world, causing roughly ...
Aug 12, 2013
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Endometriosis is a chronic condition affecting women, often resulting in painful symptoms such as menstrual cramps and pelvic pain. Pain caused by endometriosis significantly lowers the quality of life and reproductive health ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Perimenopausal women need better education and support about how their periods might change towards the end of their reproductive life, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Nov 20, 2023
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Children born to mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy may be more likely to develop obesity, according to a new study published online ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. It is titled, ...
Mar 29, 2023
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The lower prevalence of risky sex with multiple or new partners without using condoms, which occurred during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, was still evident a year after Britain's first lockdown, reveal the results ...
Mar 27, 2023
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Minipuberty is a stage of reproductive development during infancy in both sexes when reproductive hormones change and reproductive organs develop. The importance of minipuberty is not well understood but could represent an ...
Mar 27, 2023
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Scientists at Nottingham Trent University investigated menstrual cycle characteristics of more than 550 women before and during lockdown.
Dec 6, 2022
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Both the gut microbiome and virome of early life have always drawn research attention because they are strongly associated with the health status of an individual in the future. The gut virome, consisting of phages and eukaryotic ...
Oct 18, 2022
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The research team from UCL, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust undertook a comprehensive review to investigate ...
Mar 24, 2022
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