Pedal pushers saw their risk for heart disease, cancer and early death cut by almost half in 5-year study
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It’s no secret that going to therapy can be beneficial to mental and emotional health, but some new research is pointing out an interesting reason about why that is. A study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry found that when a therapist helps a patient challenge unhealthy thought patterns, that person shows measurable changes in their brain activity.
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We’ve heard over and over again that men and women have brains that work in slightly different ways, but some new research on emotions claims that the sexes are more alike then we think.
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Many of us take for granted the access that we have to the medical assistance that we might need or want at any given time. When it comes to female reproductive rights, though, things are much more complicated.
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Although we might still be fighting for gender equality on many fronts, the fact still remains that there are some genetic differences between men and women, and there are some important reasons to pay attention to that fact.
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Note: This article originally ran on World AIDS 2014. Because the information shared herein is still relevant and important, we’re republishing it on World Aids…
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Once again, conservative anti-abortion lawmakers have proved that they are adept at coming up with creative ways to make getting abortions harder for women, despite abortion being a federally-protected right for more than 40 years.
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A sperm bank in the UK called the London Sperm Bank has created an app that functions a lot like Tinder, except that it matches women with potential sperm donors as opposed to potential dates. It’s been aptly nicknamed “Order A Daddy.”
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More than half of all women will get a urinary tract infection at some point in their life, and for many women, the issue will be a reoccurring one.
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Just when you think you can start giving someone the benefit of the doubt again, they turn around and show you their true colors. We should have seen it coming.
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More young women in the United States are becoming receptive to using long-acting reversible contraception (LARCs) to meet their birth control needs, according to a story covered by NPR earlier this month.
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In a world of people thinking that they need to avoid gluten because their favorite mommy blog tells them to, there exists Celiac disease: a real gluten intolerance with serious potential long-term complications and malignancies.
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