January 24, 2012
This phrase may be uttered more often by women than by men, and it’s not just because men are so tough and macho. Although it’s possible for men to underplay the pain they feel in the name of preserving their masculinity, researchers suggest there’s something much deeper underlying the difference between men and women when ...
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September 27, 2011
If you have a problem with MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, it might be even harder to accept the reverse: 61 and pregnant. Although she’s old enough to be a granny, an unnamed 61-year-old Brazilian woman is due with her first child this November. After having “undergone a very thorough medical clearance,” her and her 38-year-old ...
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July 28, 2011
Whether it’s depression, loneliness, substance abuse or other mental health conditions, middle-aged women are losing the battle against their demons. Women from the age of 40-69 are the most at-risk of taking their own lives, according to a new report released from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The report goes on ...
July 8, 2011
One in twenty women will experience menopause before the age of 40, a new study has found. This early menopause can threaten more than your sex drive and mood swings. Risks include heart attack, stroke and bone disease, but researchers have been unable to explain the cause. This research, done by the Imperial College London, ...
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study,
women,
women's health
June 28, 2011
Get the soup, herbal tea, vaporizers, cough drops, tissues and tender love and care ready — your man is sick. Women may accuse men of being babies when they get a cold, exaggerating for the extra attention they used to get as little boys when it was perfectly fine to need their mommies, but men ...
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Man flu,
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tender love and care
June 8, 2011
Apparently daddies have quite a large role in their daughter’s prenatal process after all. A study of 1000 post-menopausal Japanese women asked a series of questions about the time when their periods stopped and past histories of smoking family members. Those whose fathers were smokers while they were in their mothers’ wombs wound up going ...
Tags: birth,
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family,
history,
menopause,
period,
second-hand smoking,
second-hand smoking in utero,
smoking,
smoking effects menopause,
smoking effects unborn baby,
smoking while pregnant
May 6, 2011
It’s always been accepted as a given that women are more weepy than men. It’s just the scapegoat that changes. Women are hormonal, PMS-ing, menopausal and overall more delicate than men. Men learn to control their tears. Their fathers, peers, siblings and even women might think they’re pansies if they don’t. We all know that ...
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testosterone,
The Lion King,
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March 4, 2011
Women are always portrayed in movies as having it all together career-wise but being compete dunces with their personal lives. Sure, she has a job and friends, but she can’t really be happy until she meets Mr Right and has a chance to settle down and begin a family. If only she understood that before ...
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women
February 25, 2011
All my life I have assumed that I would get married and have kids, but I never once had an active urge to make babies. I knew women and men who had always dreamed of the day they could have their own families, and next to them I felt like I was a bad person. ...
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women
October 28, 2010
A fertility doctor has recommended that women in their 20s and even late teens should freeze ovarian tissue so they can have healthier babies when they are older. Dr Sherman Silber recommends not freezing individual eggs, as is currently done, but freezing ovarian tissues by taking a sliver out. This would allow up to 60,000 ...
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