A new study has indicated that male sex addicts may have higher levels of oxytocin in their blood.  Oxytocin often referred to as ‘love hormone’ is a hormone produced by the hypothalamus and secreted by the pituitary gland. It plays a key role in sexual behavior, and abnormal levels of the hormone may contribute to hypersexual disorder.

The United Nations Children’s Fund has raised the alarm that more girls are at risk of being victims of female genital mutilation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The UN agency body stated this on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.

A Non-Governmental Organisation, Cancer Aware, on Friday said that 90 per cent of women could survive cancer if detected early. Tolu Falowo, Executive Director, Cancer Aware, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that regular screening helps to detect cancer at the early stage.

Paediatricians have warned new mothers who have difficulty lactating immediately after giving birth to be careful about the kind of breastmilk they procured from other mothers to give their newborns.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have found that a pantyhose facemask hack, while uncomfortable, is quite effective when it comes to protecting oneself from COVID-19. The researchers led by Eugenia O’Kelly of the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, found the most effective tactic to prevent COVID-19 was to wrap pantyhose around the bottom half of the face — on top of a mask.

A new study has indicated that hypertension at a young age may result in changes to the brain later on in life. The new study findings, presented by researchers at the American Heart Association’s International Stroke Conference 2022Trusted Source, revealed that long-term, uncontrolled hypertension may have an additional effect on the brain.

A new study has suggested that long-term paracetamol use could increase the risk of heart disease and strokes in people with high blood pressure. The University of Edinburgh study, published in the scientific journal Circulation, is the first large randomised clinical trial to address this question and complements earlier work in observational studies.

A sex therapist, Dr. Charles Umeh, has cautioned men against relying on drugs to initiate an erection, noting that no drug can really help a man to get an erection. According to the expert, drugs that claim to help a man initiate erection are misleading, explaining that based on science drugs cannot help a man initiate an erection but could rather help to sustain and intensify it.

Medical experts say black women experience a higher risk of having a miscarriage than white women, noting that many complex reasons drive this higher risk. The reasons, according to the experts, include lack of preconception care, inadequate health-seeking behaviour, lack of quality health care, and research involving all ethnicities.