Monthly pain relief
Anecdotal tales that the pill eases period pain have been given new credence. Over 1200 women were asked to rate period pain at age 19 and again at 24. Accounting for age-related changes, women on the combined oral contraceptive pill reported significantly less severe pain than those who did not use it (Human Reproduction, ).
Death by music
Listen up and take care when walking with music: the number of US pedestrians killed by vehicles while wearing headphones has almost trebled, from 16 in 2004 to 47 in 2011. A warning was sounded by the…
