Archive for March 23rd, 2009
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LESS COMMON FACTORS AFFECTING FERTILITY
The uterus. Some people are born with an unusual uterus, it may be a different shape, which in itself does not always cause a problem (many women have no trouble having babies despite having a double uterus), but it might be a reason why a woman cannot conceive. The uterus may have developed extra swellings [...]
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PREGNANCY: WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE?
Morning sickness. Like some cruel trick of false advertising, this name gives the impression that after feeling queasy in the morning, you are going to be bouncing around as right as rain for the rest of the day. In fact, this sick feeling (nausea) which accompanies pregnancy in more than 50 per cent of women, [...]
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WART VIRUS
The warts people get on their bottoms belong to the same family as the warts I avoided as a child. There are at least fifty different sub-types of the ‘human papilloma virus’ or HPV, the virus responsible for making warts. Some of these sub-types like the genital region, and tend to be found there, rather [...]
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SIDE-EFFECTS OF CONTRACEPTIVE PILL “THE PILL”
The pill’s safe use depends on the careful screening of potential users to exclude “high-risk’ women, and direct them to more suitable forms of contraception. Also, over the years developments have made the pill safer, in particular, recognition of the relationships between age, smoking and high-dose oestrogens. The actual incidence of serious side-effects of the [...]
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FEMALE ANATOMY: PROLACTIN AND MENOPAUSE
Prolactin. Another hormone involved with reproduction is prolactin, which is made in the pituitary gland in the brain. It acts on breast tissue to stimulate milk production during late pregnancy and when a woman is breastfeeding. It also acts to interfere with the usual production of FSH and LH, so ovulation does not tend to [...]