One Sunday evening, I got a text from a friend: She’d read that the NewYork-Presbyterian health care system was going to ban spouses and partners from the delivery room due to efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by novel coronavirus. At that point, it was the day before I was scheduled […]
A woman in Japan who contracted the new coronavirus and was released from hospital after recovering has tested positive again, officials said Thursday. The case is the first time a patient apparently cleared of the virus has subsequently tested positive for it, a local official in Osaka said. The woman in her 40s was first […]
Italian woman, 25, grows eyelash-like hairs out of her GUMS, as baffled doctors believe it was fuelled by her polycystic ovary syndrome The rare phenomenon has only affected five other people in the world The unidentified woman sought help 10 years ago and was diagnosed with PCOS Hormonal treatment stopped the eyelash growth for six years […]
Is it possible to investigate menopausal age, or not? In more than one in three women aged 50, the body provides no clear answer about the menopause, a University of Gothenburg study shows. Increased use of hormonal intrauterine devices and contraceptive pills are the cause. The springboard for the study was previous research, published in […]
Almost completely paralyzed by a terminal illness, 42-year-old Peruvian Ana Estrada says she is a “prisoner in her own body” and yearns to be legally allowed to end her own life. But Peru doesn’t permit medically assisted suicide, so Estrada is campaigning for a change in the law from the electric wheelchair in her Lima […]
