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Birth Control Pills and Your Health

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Birth Control Pills and Your Health

The birth control pill has been available to women by prescription since the 1960s, but many women are unaware of exactly how this form of contraception works. In fact, many members of the medical community may advise against using this form of contraception due to the various birth control side effects that may result from the use of hormones.

What Types of Birth Control Pills are Available?

There are several types of birth control pills that are available for women looking to prevent pregnancy. Of course, the birth control pill does not prevent STD infections, and this should be taken into consideration when choosing this form of contraception.

The birth control pill is available in the following forms:

1) The Combination Pill: this method uses synthetic estrogen and progesterone hormones in order to stop ovulation and prevent pregnancy.

2) The Mini Pill: this contraceptive pill uses only progestin hormones. While ovulation may be suppressed when using the mini pill, the main function of this form of birth control is to thicken cervical mucus in order to prevent the sperm from meeting an egg

Is the Birth Control Pill Safe?

There are many benefits to the use of the birth control pill, including helping with acne and PMS symptoms, as well as possibly preventing the development of certain cancers affecting the female reproductive system, such as ovarian cancer and endometrial cancer.

However, many medical professionals warn against the potential side effects and health complications that are associated with the birth control pill. These range from common and relatively harmless birth control side effects such as nausea or spotting, to more serious health risks such as blood clotting and liver tumors.

In addition, there are various factors that should be taken into consideration when taking the birth control pill. A health care professional will typically assess a woman?s medical history in order to determine whether she is at risk of developing certain complications as a result of taking the birth control pill. Typically, women who smoke or are over the age of 35 will not be prescribed this type of contraception.

There are many other birth control options available to both men and women who are concerned about the potential health risks associated with the birth control pill. The important thing is to be informed and understand the ways our bodies work in order to make the birth control decision that is best in each individual case.

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After missing the past two games with a sprained thumb Alex Rodriguez is back in the Yankees? lineup today, playing third base and batting cleanup against the A?s.

Rodriguez missed 38 games following knee surgery and lasted just one game before suffering the thumb injury, going 0-for-5 against the Twins in his return Sunday.

He hasn?t played back-to-back games since June 6 and 7 but the Yankees haven?t missed a beat without Rodriguez, going 44-25 during that time while Eduardo Nunez and Eric Chavez split starts at third base.

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/25/alex-rodriguez-returns-to-yankees-lineup-after-thumb-injury/related/

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Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Earth (AP)

WASHINGTON ? Our world is a much wilder place than it looks. A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of the yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists say.

So far, only 1.9 million species have been found. Recent discoveries have been small and weird: a psychedelic frogfish, a lizard the size of a dime and even a blind hairy mini-lobster at the bottom of the ocean.

"We are really fairly ignorant of the complexity and colorfulness of this amazing planet," said the study's co-author, Boris Worm, a biology professor at Canada's Dalhousie University. "We need to expose more people to those wonders. It really makes you feel differently about this place we inhabit."

While some scientists and others may question why we need to know the number of species, others say it's important.

There are potential benefits from these undiscovered species, which need to be found before they disappear from the planet, said famed Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, who was not part of this study. Some of modern medicine comes from unusual plants and animals.

"We won't know the benefits to humanity (from these species), which potentially are enormous," the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wilson said. "If we're going to advance medical science, we need to know what's in the environment."

Biologists have long known that there's more to Earth than it seems, estimating the number of species to be somewhere between 3 million and 100 million. Figuring out how much is difficult.

Worm and Camilo Mora of the University of Hawaii used complex mathematical models and the pace of discoveries of not only species, but of higher classifications such as family to come up with their estimate.

Their study, published Tuesday in the online journal PLoS Biology, a publication of the Public Library of Science, estimated the number of species at nearly 8.8 million.

Of those species, 6.5 million would be on land and 2.2 million in the ocean, which is a priority for the scientists doing the work since they are part of the Census of Marine Life, an international group of scientists trying to record all the life in the ocean.

The research estimates that animals rule with 7.8 million species, followed by fungi with 611,000 and plants with just shy of 300,000 species.

While some new species like the strange mini-lobster are in exotic places such as undersea vents, "many of these species that remain to be discovered can be found literally in our own backyards," Mora said.

Outside scientists, such as Wilson and preeminent conservation biologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University, praised the study, although some said even the 8.8 million number may be too low.

The study said it could be off by about 1.3 million species, with the number somewhere between 7.5 million and 10.1 million. But evolutionary biologist Blair Hedges of Penn State University said he thinks the study is not good enough to be even that exact and could be wrong by millions.

Hedges knows firsthand about small species.

He found the world's smallest lizard, a half-inch long Caribbean gecko, while crawling on his hands and knees among dead leaves in the Dominican Republic in 2001. And three years ago in Barbados, he found the world's shortest snake, the 4-inch Caribbean threadsnake that lays "a single, very long egg."

The study's authors point to other species as evidence of the growing rate of discovery: the 6-inch, blind, hairy lobster-type species found in 2005 by a submarine looking at hydrothermal vents near where the Pacific meets Antarctica and a brilliant-colored frogfish found by divers in Indonesia in 2008.

Of the 1.9 million species found thus far, only about 1.2 million have been listed in the fledgling online Encyclopedia of Life, a massive international effort to chronicle every species that involves biologists, including Wilson.

If the 8.8 million estimate is correct, "those are brutal numbers," said Encyclopedia of Life executive director Erick Mata. "We could spend the next 400 or 500 years trying to document the species that actually inhabit our planet."

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Online:

Census of Marine Life: http://www.coml.org

Encyclopedia of Life: http://www.eol.org

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/science/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110824/ap_on_sc/us_sci_millions_of_species

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