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More Detailed Warnings Necessary on Yaz Birth Control

December 11, 2011 / Staff

Yaz birth control pills have come under scrutiny lately.

The FDA has indicated concern in recent months as some studies, including its own, have shown an elevated risk as the newer synthetic form of progestin called drospirenone, can make women more prone to blood clots.

Currently, the labels suggest that these contraceptives have blood clot risks similar to those of other birth control pills that combine estrogens and progestins.
Morgan Liscinsky, an F.D.A. spokeswoman, said the panel “definitely felt that stronger labels were needed, that the labels need to be updated to reflect current data and acknowledge that it is conflicting.”

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Do Men Really Think About Sex All the Time?

December 11, 2011 / Staff

Well, men think about sex just about as often as they think about food and sleeping.

And while women don’t think about sex as often they are not far behind men. And thoughts of food and sleep are proportionately less, as well.

“The story about this paper that’s been reported in the press has been ‘Men think about sex 19 times a day!’ ” said Terri Fisher, a psychology professor at Ohio State University at Mansfield, and the study’s lead author. But that isn’t all that much when you consider the study’s participants were college students, those repositories of raging hormones and unfettered urges.
“The more interesting finding is that male college students think just as much about food and sleep as they do about sex,” Dr. Fisher said.

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The Sugar Content in Children’s Cereal is Dangerously High

December 11, 2011 / Staff

Sugar in children’s cereal is alarmingly high.

At least three popular children’s cereals are packed with more sugar in a one-cup serving than a Hostess Twinkie, and an additional 44 are loaded with more sugar in a cup than three Chips Ahoy cookies, according to a study released Tuesday by the Environmental Working Group.

Find a list of the worst offenders cereals and the sugar content as well as a list of alternatives.

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Teenage Access to Morning After Pill Does Not Get Support from Obama White House

December 10, 2011 / Staff

Women’s groups are upset over the White house decision to limit access of the morning after pill to teenage girls without their parent’s consent.

President Obama noting that he was the father of two daughters, threw his wholehearted support on Thursday behind a decision by his health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, not to allow emergency contraceptives to be sold over the counter to young teenagers.

Mr. Obama insisted that he was not involved in the decision, on a contraceptive pill known as Plan B One-Step. The decision by Ms. Sebelius, announced on Wednesday, was an extremely rare case of an administration official’s publicly overruling the Food and Drug Administration, which had concluded after extensive research that the medication was safe to be sold to teenagers 16 and younger without a prescription.

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