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Unique they are. They required that their heroically stoical mother give up solid food and lie at an angle with her pelvis higher than her head for weeks in order to minimize pressure on the cervix...
...teenage girls. For one thing, they develop chlamydia more often than adults. In fact, whenever health experts track cases by age, they find that about half of all chlamydia cases occur in girls ages 15 to 19. Reason: the younger the woman, the more vulnerable to infection is her cervix, the ring of tissue that protects the opening to her uterus. In addition, chlamydia often infects silently, with few or no initial symptoms. Although it is easily cured with antibiotics, the longer it remains undetected and untreated, the more likely it is to cause extensive internal scarring. The disease, after...
That uncertainty could be changing. In the past few years, pharmaceutical companies have developed highly sensitive urine tests for chlamydia that work equally well for boys and girls. (The previous test required more invasive sampling of the cervix or urethra.) Such tests should permit more extensive screening campaigns. Already, a pilot program in the Pacific Northwest has achieved a dramatic decline, from 9% to 3%, in chlamydia rates among women in family-planning clinics. But the goal should be getting to zero, which means that both men and women need to be tested and treated. Otherwise, they'll just...
...orgasm, and one of these days they may be able to simulate it. In studies of women with spinal cord injuries, the professors discovered an alternate pathway through which the sensation of an orgasm is sent to the brain. Through the vagus nerve, sensation can travel directly from the cervix, through the abdomen and chest cavity, into the neck and to the brain stem, bypassing the spinal column. That surprising discovery led to the isolation of a chemical called vasoactive intestinal peptide, which Professor Barry Komisaruk says is the neurotransmitter, or nervous system chemical messenger, in the body that causes...
...Women who've had a hysterectomy may be able to forgo annual PAP SMEARS. The test detects cervical cancer but is also used to identify cancerous vaginal cells in women who have had their uterus--and cervix--removed. Now research finds that vaginal cancer is too rare to warrant routine testing...