Not long ago, and for reasons he couldn’t fully explain, Dr. James Simon saw a number of women within a short period of time with a remarkably similar complaint — orgasmic cephalgia, or a sudden, severe explosive headache upon orgasm. When the George Washington University obstetrician-gynecologist and his then-senior resident started looking into post-coital, orgasmic migraines, they discovered “a bunch of these cases” of …

Ben Mol isn’t exactly sure why a procedure that’s been around since 1917 helps women get pregnant — only that if it didn’t, he likely wouldn’t be here. Mol is the lead investigator of a large new study that found the century-old procedure, an X-ray diagnostic test that involves flushing out a woman’s fallopian tubes, may for many women be just as effective, cheaper …

Gluten-free foods should not be considered a healthy substitute to regular food because they usually contain high levels of fat and sugar, and low levels of protein, experts have said. Researchers from European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) have called for the widespread reformulation of gluten-free products so they match the products they replace. The warning follows …

Taking common painkillers such as ibuprofen for only a week can significantly raise the risk of having a heart attack, a study suggests. Patients are being urged to limit their use of the drugs to as short a period as possible, after they were linked to increased heart attack chances of more than 50 per cent. Scientists already suspected a …

The federal government should overturn a 13-year-old ban and make it legal to pay people to be surrogate mothers or donate sperm or eggs, Canada’s fertility specialists are urging in a major new policy position. The Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society suggests the public has become more comfortable with “assisted reproduction” generally, and that it’s time to permit carefully regulated …