The hormones in the pill can cause or exacerbate depression, and the type you use is an important factor.
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Melatonin can be useful as a sleep aid, but should be prescribed by a physician after a careful analysis of the causes of sleep loss.
Many of these digital tools aimed at women are created by, invested in and marketed by men.
Plants need light to feed themselves, so they grow in ways that help them collect as much of it as they can. Sometimes that’s straight up, but not always.
Little is known about what physiological mechanisms African primates use to cope with environmental and social changes such as climate change and human encroachment on their habitat.
Analyzing the genes that determine hair colour can shed light on other conditions that are affected by melanin production, like vitiligo.
New research suggests that despite the social mythology that surrounds testosterone in men, it may be much less important for life chances than previously thought.
Across the US, politicians, activists and transgender people are fighting over the right to access transgender medical care. Rarely is the care itself actually discussed. This is that discussion.
It’s been a stressful year, and for 61% of US adults, a year of unwanted weight change too. This isn’t surprising, as stress, eating and motivation are all linked through hormones in the brain.
Scientists issued an urgent call for better federal regulation of these endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Here’s what you can do to reduce your family’s risk.
Living in societies with gender bias can harm women’s health.
So-called “puberty blockers” work by temporarily suppressing the action of a specific hormone in the body.
Everything from hormones to certain heath conditions can affect how we feel.
Female moles evolved to have high testosterone levels, making them fiercer diggers and mothers. Female hyenas share this trait, but it means they must give birth through a male-like phallus.
A lack of sleep increases appetite, makes us more likely to eat unhealthy foods, and even affects how body fat is lost while dieting.
The human body is built to adapt to the sudden stress of overeating.
Wild dolphins are fast, smart and hard to study, but it is important to understand how human actions affect their health. So we are building a drone to sample hormones from the blowholes of dolphins.
It doesn’t matter how smooth your conversations have been. Absent the touch, taste and smell of a potential partner, you’re essentially flying blind.
A scholar and mother of a young child who is now working at home explores what’s called the ‘work-family conflict’ – and finds that’s the wrong label for the impossible choices faced by parents.
Just under one in six Australian women have PCOS but some are being diagnosed when they don’t meet the criteria.
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Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
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Emeritus Director, Hudson Institute
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Professor of Women’s Health Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, & Director of Research, Royal Women's Hospital, The University of Melbourne
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Gynaecology Unit Head the Royal Women’s Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
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Research professor, CQUniversity Australia
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Scientia Professor of Evolutionary Ecology; Academic Lead of UNSW's Grand Challenges Program, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, The University of Melbourne
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Head of School of Women’s and Children’s Health and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, UNSW Sydney
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Chair of Women's Health, Monash University
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Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, University of Adelaide
