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New evidence could encourage more men to opt for a vasectomy as part of family planning.A new study from the UK provides an updated look at data concerning risk factors and complications from the popular procedure - more than 500,000 men opt to have a vasectomy per year in the United States.Some of this data hadn't been updated since the 1980s.

Menopause treatments will be revolutionised by a drug that acts directly on the brain to prevent hot flushes, leading doctors have predicted.Speaking after the US approved the first non-hormonal menopause drug, made by Astellas Pharma, experts said the treatment could be transformative for the hundreds of thousands of women in the UK for whom hormone replacement drugs (HRT) are not suitable.

Only after having this could I move on, she said.Holly McComish was just 25 years old when she had a stroke that almost killed her.Doctors at the hospital told her to immediately stop taking the contraceptive pill she had been prescribed two months earlier.Having been prescribed the pill over the phone and not even been given a pamphlet laying out the risks and side effects associated with taking it, Ms McComish said she was unaware of the pill's more serious potential effects.

Michael Gordon is, pardon the redundancy, a maniacal Philadelphia Eagles fan.Like many of his ilk, he has a high threshold for agony.It helped him cope with all those Eagles playoff flops over the years.And it also informed the decision he made last week when confronted with the ultimate test of his devotion.

When the New England Patriots take on the Cincinnati Bengals on Christmas eve, they will se a few familiar faces on the other sideline.Most prominent among those is Ted Karras.A sixth-round draft pick by the Patriots in 2016, Karras spent the first four seasons of his career in New England.After a short interlude in Miami in 2020, he returned for another season in 2021 before signing a three-year, $18 million deal with the Bengals this offseason.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.A recently emerging tick-borne illness is spreading in New York City, and a tick expert said it's something that most people should watch out for, just as much as the more well-known Lyme disease.Babesiosis, while not as common as Lyme, is still problematic, according to Maria Diuk-Wasser, professor of ecology at Columbia University, who has been studying ticks in New York City, including Staten Island.

Food and Drug Administration advisers concluded that the benefits outweighed the risks of making a hormonal contraceptive pill sold under the brand name Opill and produced by the French company HRA Pharma available without a prescription.If the F.D.A. follows the nonbinding recommendation of its advisers and there is a chance the agency might not Opill would become the first and only birth control pill to be available over the counter since oral contraceptives were introduced in the U.S. in 1960.

Pregnant women and their developing babies are at higher risk for severe outcomes if they get Covid-19, and now a large, international review is helping to underscore how devastating those risks can be.The study draws on data from 12 studies from as many countriesincluding the United States.Altogether, the studies included more than 13,000 pregnant womenabout 2,000 who had a confirmed or probable case of Covid-19.

With China's zero-COVID policy abruptly scrapped last month, the pandemic virus is now ripping through the country's population, and health experts are bracing for a wave of devastation as peak transmission shifts from urban centers to more vulnerable rural communities.The dire situation is expected to be "dramatically enhanced" by mass travel later this month for celebrations of the Lunar New Year on January 22.

America is in a maternal health crisis.According to new CDC data released this week, the rate of maternal mortality defined as deaths during pregnancy or within 42 days of giving birth rose by 40% in 2021.At a rate of 33 deaths for every 100,000 live births, 1,205 women died of maternal causes that year.

Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people over 60 to have a coronavirus vaccination but, despite a surge in cases, many are alarmed by stories of fevers, blood clots and other side-effects.i Liansheng, 64, who had been vaccinated before he caught Covid-19, said: "When people hear about such incidents, they may not be willing to take the vaccines."

Women in the UK are three times more likely to die around the time of pregnancy compared to those in Norway and Denmark, a new study has found.Research compared maternal mortality rates in eight European countries and found that the UK had the second highest mortality rate after Slovakia.It comes after a major new review found that maternal mortality rates have risen in the UK.

A person's odds of getting a new diabetes diagnosis were 58 percent higher in the months following a COVID-19 infection compared with prior to infection, even amid the era of omicron, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal JAMA Network Open.The study is just the latest to link the development of diabetes to COVID-19, which pandemic data suggests increases the risk of a range of cardiometabolic conditions, including blood clots, myocarditis, stroke, and diabetes.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted a fast-tracked approval for a new Alzheimer's disease treatment, which may slightly slow the progression of cognitive decline in the disease's early stages, but also raises risks of brain bleeds and swelling.The treatment-lecanemab, brand name Leqemb, made by pharmaceutical companies Eisai and Biogen-is an intravenous monoclonal antibody that targets amyloid-beta proteins, which accumulate in plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's.

BEIJING (AP)  Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19.But even as cases surge, 64-year-old Li Liansheng said his friends are alarmed by stories of fevers, blood clots and other side effects.When people hear about such incidents, they may not be willing to take the vaccines, said Li, who had been vaccinated before he caught COVID-19.

The 69-year-old man rose from his desk at the guard station in the front hall of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala.He usually patrolled the entrance to the busy clinic once or twice an hour.This time, he didn't take more than a dozen steps into the humid spring warmth before he felt the familiar symptoms he'd come to dread.

BOULDER, Colo.-- Part politician, part preacher and part pitchman, Deion Sanders fired up a crowd of alumni, boosters, former players and other VIPs celebrating his hire as Colorado's coach on Sunday.He spewed motivational sayings that he promised will soon adorn the walls inside the complex at Folsom Field and he vowed to lead the bedraggled Buffaloes back to prominence after going 27-5 in three seasons at Jackson State.

A blood-thinning drug given as a potential life-saver to many patients recovering from severe Covid does not work and can cause major bleeding, research shows.The findings have led to calls for doctors to stop advising people to take Apixaban, because it does not stop them from dying or ending up back in hospital and also can have serious side-effects.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Hemgenix, a new drug to treat hemophilia.Manufacturer CSL Behring set the price at $3.5 million per treatment, making it the most expensive drug in the world.Hemgenix is a gene therapy to treat adults with hemophilia B, a genetic bleeding disorder in which people do not produce a protein needed to create blood clots.

The Miami Heat aren't doing so well right now as they continue to look for answers about their young season.Off to a 2-5 start, the good thing about it all is this-they can only improve from here.And they'll look to do just that as they lock in for another round of games at home to begin November.But beginning November doesn't just hold merit for this year's Heat group for that reason, the chance to start new, fresh, and in the confines of your home building, but it means something significant to the Heat organization and an important time during their history as a franchise in the NBA.