Ovulation

medicine addresses issues of sexual education, puberty, family planning, birth control, infertility, reproductive system disease (including sexually transmitted diseases) and sexual dysfunction. In women, reproductive medicine also covers menstruation, ovulation, pregnancy and menopause, as well as gynecologic disorders that affect fertility. The field cooperates with and overlaps to some degree with gynecology, obstetrics, urology, genitourinary medicine, medical endocrinology, pediatric…

movements, distributing information and counseling patients regarding any type of birth control was illegal under federal and state laws. During this time period, there was little wide spread knowledge about many medical conveniences including time of ovulation, fertility period as well as various other reproductive facts (Achievements in Public Health, 1999). But now, this information has all become modern medicine…

Pregnancy prevention can be traced back as far as 3000 BC when people would use condoms made out of the bladder of fish or animal intestines. Today, there are many ways to prevent pregnancy, such as male condoms and female birth control. The form that is the most popular in the United States is the pill. The FDA did not approve of the pill until 1957 and was not approved for contraceptive use until 1960. Catholic churches believed that birth control was sinful and that women that took it were…

High BMIs are associated with increased risk for type 2 diabetes, and colon, breast and kidney cancers. The risk of type 2 diabetes increases with weight gain even within normal levels of the BMI range, but sharply increases if you are obese. BMI however, is only an estimated measure of relative weight and does not take into account overall health. If you 're especially lean, for example a body builder, you may weigh more as muscle tissue is denser than fat. Your BMI will then categorise you…

Despite what people say on the internet, harvesting rabbit wool should not be harmful to the animal. The wool is cut off much like people get their hair cut. The animal might look a little weird after harvesting the wool but there should be no damage to the rabbit or its quality of life if the animal is shorn correctly. Other than being used for production, meat and wool rabbits can be used for showing as well. To compete with meat rabbits at a show, they would be entered in a meat pen. This…

John was having issues getting his mother pregnant. So he decided to asks his friend for advice. "Hey Dan, there's a particular woman I'm trying to impregnate, but its seems difficult. The problem is, it's okay for me to fill her up on her safe days, but would never tell me. When's the most fertile days for her." Dan laughs hysterically at his friend misfortune. "I could help you out John, so who's the slut you're trying to impregnate?" John was a little embarrassed to give that information to…

Whether genetically modifying babies is right or wrong is something that could be debated depending on an individual's religious values. Several people dispute about the pros and cons to each side, however; genetically inserting, deleting, or changing genes should be banned in the United States because it is not fair to create super babies, it costs a significantly large amount of money, and it is not safe to have advanced humans in our society. Genetically modifying babies in the United…

INTRODUCTION In the time of women development it is inevitable that the menstrual cycle will be be a part of one’s life. With some women being college students, socializing with others and education play a great amount of time in the college experience. Menstrual cycles can cause symptoms and behaviors that may cause change in women’s everyday life for a short amount of time. “Periods” (an alternative name to menstrual cycles) alter communication with instructors and colleagues and also affect…

It was in the year of 1827 when scientist first discovered that the female body contains what is called today eggs. Back then, medicine called them ova based on its Latin name. However, it took scientists nearly sixteen years to discover that conception occurs through the connection of sperm from the male reproductive system with an egg from the female reproductive system. From this significant discovery in 1827, reproductive medicine slowly began developing step-by-step with each year adding…

Xenotransplantation is the process of transplanting or grafting organs and tissue between different species. As you’re transplanting a foreign organ not from the same species as you, this has many social and biological implications. Including the fact that there’s could be new viruses and pathogens passed over between species with the potential to cause a mass epidemic and kill of many members of a species. Also this procedure although been around for a long time it hasn’t had a very high…