Research prompts warning - A UNC scientist says pregnant women should avoid using some products

Catherine Clabby, Staff Writer

A UNC researcher says pregnant women should check shampoo and sunblock labels to avoid a chemical that harms the brains of unborn mice.

Dr. Steven Zeisel, a UNC-Chapel Hill nutrition researcher, has found that diethanolamine, or DEA, slows the creation of brain cells vital to memory in rodents.

Those results, based on DEA doses higher than people could encounter washing their hair, are published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology journal.

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Pressure to Build Families Early Affects Men as well as Women

New York City, January 13, 2005 – The stigma and fear many women feel in their 30’s when they are not married, are without prospects, and are listening to their biological clock ticking down, may not just be a female phenomenon any longer.

The release of the book “The Male Biological Clock” by Dr. Harry Fisch, Director of the Male Reproductive Center at Columbia University Medical Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital and Professor of Clinical Urology at Columbia University, raises the critical issue that a man’s procreative capabilities may start deteriorating as early as his mid-thirties, which is only a few years later than the female average of age 27. This new information proposing there is a male biological clock is a significant and eye-opening fact for men and women alike, as they consider their current or future plans to start or expand their families.

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NCCRM Newsletter Archives

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February 2009

http://community.icontact.com/p/nccrmivf/newsletters/fertility/posts/nccrm-february-2009-newsletter

December 2008
http://community.icontact.com/p/nccrmivf/newsletters/fertility/posts/nccrm-december-2008-newsletter

November 2008
http://community.icontact.com/p/nccrmivf/newsletters/fertility/posts/nccrm-november-2008-newsletter

October 2008
http://community.icontact.com/p/nccrmivf/newsletters/fertility/posts/national-infertility-awareness-week

September 2008
http://community.icontact.com/p/nccrmivf/newsletters/fertility/posts/nccrm-september-newsletter
August 2008
http://community.icontact.com/p/nccrmivf/newsletters/fertility/posts/nccrm-august-newsletter

 

Desperate Housewives' Actress Brenda Strong to Serve as National Spokesperson for The American Ferti

From The American Fertility Association

NEW YORK, Oct 17 -- The American Fertility Association (AFA) announced that actress Brenda Strong will serve as the first national spokesperson for the fertility patient advocacy organization. Ms. Strong -- known to many as Mary-Alice Young, the narrator and dearly-departed Wisteria Lane neighbor on ABC's hit "Desperate Housewives" -- wrestled with infertility and turned to the practice of yoga to manage and alleviate the associated stress brought on by the diagnosis. She will use her spokesperson platform to educate infertile women and men on how they can re-connect with their bodies, reduce stress, and increase self esteem through exercise and complementary medicine.

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