It is only fitting that the theme for this year’s National Nurses Week is “Nurses: Leading the Way.” After all, nurses lead the way in showing an elderly patient how to manage his or her diabetes. They lead the way in making sure their patients – children and adults – get the vaccinations they need. They lead the way in helping our young moms learn how to care for their infants. And they lead the way in conducting research to promote high-quality life for those with chronic illnesses, and to help all of us stay healthy across the lifespan. According to the U.S.

May Is National High Blood Pressure Education Month, and nearly one in three adults in the United States has high blood pressure, also called hypertension. High blood pressure is dangerous because it increases the risk of stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure, death.

The Oncofertility Consortium is happy to announce the translation of Repropedia into Portuguese.  Repropedia is a reproductive dictionary created by an international team of scientists and clinicians led by investigators at Northwestern University.  This site provides information on common reproductive science terms that can be very useful to patients and providers.

Pain from inflammation may greatly reduce sexual motivation.   The direct impact of pain on sexual behavior was studied, possibly for the first time in any species,  and reported by researchers in Canada.   They found that pain due to inflammation greatly reduced sexual motivation in female mice in heat–but had no such effect on male mice.

“Chronic pain is very often accompanied by sexual problems in humans,” says Professor Yitzchak Binik at McGill University.  This animal study creates a model for exploring pain-inhibited sexual desire that can help researchers eventually apply to human research.