Unisex Non-Hormonal Birth Control Pill on the Horizon
Razi Berry Birth control options aren’t great. For women, most options require using hormones that cause common side effects such as weight gain, metabolic disturbances, nausea, and headaches. For men, the options are fairly dismal, condoms. With condoms having a failure rate high enough to warrant the constant recommendation of an added birth control method, […]
Children Taking Multiple Drugs May Be at Risk for Drug-Drug Interactions
Razi Berry A recent research study from the University of Illinois at Chicago estimates that 20 percent of children regularly use a prescription medication, and that one in 12 of those children are at risk of a harmful drug-drug interaction (DDI).1 Adolescent girls are at the highest risk of these adverse events. Researchers looked at […]
Poison Arrows May be the Answer to Male Birth Control
Node Smith, ND Male Birth Control Pill Could Not be Far Off The question of contraception is largely left up to women, because most of the contraception methods are directed at the female population. Besides condoms, men don’t have an effective method to utilize. The development of a male birth control pill has been talked […]
14 embarrassing questions about sex you should ask your doctor
Dr. Natalie Bozinovski ND. MSc. Sex shouldn’t be embarrassing – it’s on fire…it’s healing…George Michael wants it, Rihanna loves the smell of it, and the Divinyls are thinking about you and touching themselves. But despite song lyrics like those, talking about sex doesn’t come easily to all of us. Nonetheless, if you find yourself wondering […]
Natural Form of Birth Control to Replace Hormonal Contraceptives
(NaturalPath) For a long time, hormonal contraceptives have been one of the only birth control options for women. They can cause a wide array of health consequences some which we are still surfacing today. The use of these hormonal birth control methods can cause symptoms such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), nutritional deficiencies, mental health […]