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Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers. Produced in the endocrine glands, these powerful chemicals travel around your bloodstream telling tissues and organs what to do. They help control many of your body’s major processes, including metabolism and reproduction. When you have a hormonal imbalance, you have too much or too little of a certain hormone.…

A tale from a breast cancer patient When Clare was told she had breast cancer and needed a mastectomy, she expected to be upset by it. After approaching her treatment with positivity, however, she now feels better than she ever did before. Clare, a white woman with a shaved head, is smiling. She is wearing…

All you need to know about the alopecia;a hair loss condition condition which Will Smith’s wife;Jada Pinkett Smith is suffering from ALOPECIA (SEE: HAIR LOSS)DEFINITION Hair loss can affect just your scalp or your entire body. It can be the result of heredity, hormonal changes, medical conditions or medications. Anyone — men, women and children…

A Birth Control Pill for Men Could Start Human Trials This YearThe non-hormonal pill was 99% effective at preventing pregnancy in mice, new research found. Scientists are still racing to create the first male contraceptive that isn’t a condom or surgery. In new preliminary research, a team says they’ve developed a non-hormonal form of male…

Labor induction — also known as inducing labor — is the stimulation of uterine contractions during pregnancy before labor begins on its own to achieve a vaginal birth. A health care provider might recommend labor induction for various reasons, primarily when there’s concern for a mother’s health or a baby’s health. One of the most…

𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏; Complications of pregnancy are health problems that occur during pregnancy. They can involve the mother’s health, the baby’s health, or both. Some women have health problems that arise during pregnancy, and other women have health problems before they become pregnant that could lead…

THE VIRUS BECAME UNDETECTABLE IN SIX OUT OF SEVEN TEST SUBJECTS. A team of researchers in Japan has created a vaccine that was able to kill a type of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in macaques during an early trial, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun reports. While becoming infected with HIV isn’t exactly great news, with…

𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔; Any woman who has experienced a miscarriage—especially when the pregnancy was wanted—knows that losing a baby at any stage of pregnancy can be very difficult to come back from. There are likely to be a range of thoughts and…