When it comes to dirty jokes and crude movies, we don’t seem to have much problems talking about sex in today’s world. But what about when it becomes between just you and him? Just the two of you and your new relationship. How easy is it to talk about sex then? Easy enough to talk about condoms? It’s surprising how often the answer is “no.”
Both men and women know how important condoms are. Being on the Pill will prevent pregnancy, but it won’t prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) like chlamydia or HIV. The only thing that will …read more

Time for a coffee and a read with the latest edition of the Healtbolt Carnival.

Brain Blogger reports on how Depression and Diabetes Linked in Pregnancy.

Woman Tribune discusses Cheerios partnership with WomenHeart. Find out how you can help Cheerios donate to heart disease research, and get a free cholestrol screening at Cheerios Circle of Helping Hearts. Plus enter to win a freshwater pearl bracelet.

Tushar Mathur from Talking About Green gives us Ways To Go Green In The Kitchen.

Joel Gray from Health Tips 101 tells you to Open Your Mouth and Check for Cancer.

Cynthia Kerry from Best Fat Loss Reviews reports on …read more

Got a few minutes to spare? Then check out this National Geographic Channel quiz which challenges you to compare twinned photos to find 10 differences in each, and learn facts about identical twins, particularly how they may not actually be fully identical.
Sure hope you do better than me…

The National Geographic Channel created this quiz as part of their In the Womb series.
By the way, the next episode of In the Womb screens this Saturday 28th February on National Geographic Channel.

I’m not sure whether this contraption is bizarre, silly, or cute.
Developed by a father to be who was feeling a little left out of the pregnancy because he was missing the baby’s movements in the womb. Here’s what he says…
“As an expectant father, I am once-removed from the physical knowledge my wife has of our baby and its development. With the Kickbee, I wanted to create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements.”
So he created a way for all movements to be monitor via, believe it or not, twitter and the …read more

If you guessed the Jolie-Pitt clan, you’re wrong. According to her OB, there’s still a few weeks to go.
No, the babies I’m talking about are the ones that have been born to ‘a 70 year old grandmother’ and ‘a transgender man’. Talk about pushing the limits.
Can you imagine having a baby twins at the age of 70? I’m having a hard time getting my head around the idea. And get this, she is already has two daughters and five grandchildern. I could understand if this was a simple fluke of nature, but the twins were conceived through IVF treatment.
Why ? …read more

New research indicates that pregnant women using mobile phones possibly have an increased risk of giving birth to children with behavioural problems.
The study, based on questioning the mothers of over 13,000 children born in the late 1990s, found that…
“… mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely to have children with behavioural problems and that the likelihood increased with the amount of potential exposure to the radiation. And when the children also later used the phones they were, overall, 80 per cent more likely to suffer from difficulties with behaviour. They were 25 per cent more at …read more

Lots of interesting news this week.
Let’s talk transplants…
US doctors at John Hopkins Hospital recently performed what is believed to be the world’s first simulanteous six-way kidney transplant. Can you imagine that? Twelve people were operated on at the same time, with kidneys removed from six people and transplanted into six other people.
Why all at once? In the words of Jeanne Heise who received a kidney from one donor while her husband was donating a kidney to another patient…
“The waiting list for a kidney is very long and too many people die while waiting. With this group procedure, more and more …read more