Sep 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Scientists have found heavy metals in everyday products like clothing, water, and even chocolate. Yet, despite their widespread pervasiveness, researchers only recently began investigating their presence in tampons. A study at UC Berkeley examined 30 tampons across 14...
Sep 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Despite being home to the second-largest LGBTQ+ population in the country, Texas has emerged as one of the states with increasingly restrictive laws affecting the rights of the community. In the last two years, The Lone Star state attempted to ban drag performances,...
Sep 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Starting October 1, 2024, hospitals in Louisiana are legally required to remove a life-saving medication, misoprostol, from their crash carts. Misoprostol is prescribed in various capacities and is essential to reproductive health. Medical practitioners use it to...
Aug 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Microplastics, pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters long, have been found practically everywhere. Scientists have discovered them as far as the arctic ice and as deep as the deep sea trenches, and even in human placentas. And now, recent research has...
Aug 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
In the past, ovaries were simply considered organs for reproduction. Even now, the extent of their biological importance beyond the life cycle is limited. However, thanks to societal advances, we have a better understanding of ovaries beyond the obvious. Ovaries...
Aug 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
A new study published in the journal Fertility and Sterility reported the impact of unhealthy air quality on patients preparing to conceive via IVF. Researchers at Oregon Health and Science University (OSHU) studied 69 patients who began IVF treatment six weeks...
