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...with all aspects of reproductive biology," says John Rasweiler, associate professor of reproductive biology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "When you focus on some of her errors, many things seem to fall apart." Errors? "Every gynecologist knows the incidence of pelvic infections increases, not decreases, after the menstrual period," contends Dr. Charles Debrovner, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University School of Medicine. "In fact, menstruation makes women more susceptible. Menstrual blood itself may even act as a vehicle for transporting infection." Counters Profet: "Saying uterine bleeding causes infections is like saying a fireman causes...
...procedure. Over the next 3 1/ 2 years, 100,000 Frenchwomen used it successfully. Of those who made the decision early enough, about 85% chose RU 486 over surgery. (The pill is currently used in France only within seven weeks of the first day of a woman's last menstrual period; there is now talk of extending usage to a 10-week interval.) Almost all judged the method satisfactory...
...commit impulsive crimes, such as murdering strangers, have low amounts of serotonin. Men convicted of premeditated violence, however, show normal levels. As for aggressive behavior in women, some researchers speculate that it might be tied to a drop in serotonin level that normally occurs just before the menstrual period. Drugs that increase serotonin, researchers suggest, may make people less violent...
...others point to women who have formed separatist "Women-Church" worship, a New Age blend of feminist, ecological, neopagan and Christian elements. One book offers liturgies to celebrate the coming-out of lesbians, teenagers' first menstrual period and cycles of the moon. In an Ash Wednesday rite, women repent not of their own sins but of the sins the church commits | against women. Last month, 30 members of Chicago Catholic Women gathered to chant, "I am a woman giving birth to myself; bless what I bring forth," and then shared eucharistic bread and wine -- without once uttering the name...
Healy finds the Finnish study "very provocative." It suggests that at least part of estrogen's protection is indirect: by triggering the monthly menstrual flow, which carries away iron, it reduces levels of the metal in the bloodstream and lessens the threat of heart attack. When periods cease after menopause, the reasoning goes, iron begins to accumulate and the risk rises...