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...particular woman and (with any luck) vice versa? To see what light science could shed on the subject, I called Professor Martha McClintock at the University of Chicago. McClintock is an expert on odor and behavior who published a famous study in the early 1970s that showed that the menstrual cycles of college women living in dorms became synchronized through exposure to one another's pheromones, those faint chemical signals released from the skin that control the mating rituals of much of the animal kingdom. McClintock has a new study, published in the February issue of Nature Genetics, that makes...
MONTHLY ACCOUNTING Menstrual irregularities may be more than just a nuisance. Researchers say that women whose cycles are irregular or more than 40 days apart may face double the risk of diabetes. The connection? Irregular cycles may be linked to polycystic-ovary syndrome, a hormonal disorder that can disrupt the body's ability to metabolize sugar. If your periods are off, check with your doctor. Diabetes can often be prevented with a healthy diet and exercise, even if you're at risk...
...advanced asanas (poses) probably confirmed the misconceptions about yoga that keep people from trying it. Instead of wasting space naming the celebrities who practice yoga, you could have given more coverage to the numerous health benefits and curative powers of yoga for such problems as migraine headaches, panic attacks, menstrual disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome and back pain. DIANE M. PAVESIC Huntington Beach, Calif...
...pill, or emergency contraception, has introduced a new wrinkle in the battle over abortions. Women can take the hormone-laden pills (essentially a super-dose of regular birth control pills) up to 72 hours after intercourse to prevent an unwanted pregnancy. Depending on the stage of a woman's menstrual cycle, the pills will either keep an egg from making itself available to a sperm, or will stop a fertilized egg from implanting itself into the uterus...
...fictional near present. Hildegard Wolf, a successful Paris psychiatrist, finds herself treating not one but two patients who claim to be the notorious Lucan. But she too is in hiding from a criminal past; her real name is Beate Pappenheim, a sham Bavarian stigmatic who, using her menstrual blood to simulate Christ's wounds on the cross, once extracted a small fortune from credulous Roman Catholics before vanishing into a new identity...