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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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Category: Women's Health
Heidi Ledford at Nature covers a recent presentation at the American Heart Association of data showing that oral contraceptive use increases the amount of plaques in women's arteries over years of use. This is part of several studies that have...
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Category: Women's Health
Madam Fathom has a great piece on the results of fellow Sinai researcher John Morrison's study into cognitive improvement with estrogen treatment. (I would note, however, that hormone replacement therapy is still not recommended for anything other than the acute...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:15 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Women's Health
God, what is with me today and women's health? You would think I had girls on the brain. I happened across this the other day, and it is simply the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. They are now...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:31 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Women's Health
This falls into the rather broad category of things I will post but about which I will not comment. This is in part because I think the results are relatively self-explanatory. Maybe it is because I am a big prude....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:15 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Women's Health
In June, we talked about a new human papiloma virus (HPV) vaccine that was being opposed by a Christian group in Colorado on the grounds that it might promote premarital sex. HPV is a virus that commonly infects the female...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:48 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Women's Health
There is a big controversy among doctors and patients as to the wisdom of C-section vs. vaginal delivery. It is a complex issue. For the first birth, there is no evidence that I am aware of that C-section or vaginal...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:46 AM • 11 Comments •
Category: Women's Health
This is actually not a silly question. Birth control pills on the market such as Seasonale allow women to postpone having their period for three months and to only have four periods total per year. The way these oral contraceptives...
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