(SARS)-CoV-2, or COVID-19, took the world by storm in March of 2020 when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. On December 11, 2020 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave emergency use authorization (EUA) to a vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech for those 16 or older. A week …
Polycystic ovary syndrome, known as “PCOS” for short, is a condition where the ovaries produce abnormal amounts of androgens. These male sex hormones are usually only present in small amounts in women. Polycystic ovary syndrome was named to illustrate the small cysts that form in the ovaries. Some women with …
Women frequently criticize birth control because they don’t want to gain weight. That strikes me as absurd, considering that birth control causes you to put on a little weight or that getting pregnant causes you to gain a lot. Therefore, I advise you to consider ways to prevent getting pregnant …
For my STEAM project I wanted to show how easily and commonly parts of the knee area of our legs can be damaged. This was partially due to my own experiences with it, and it seemed like a good example to use. So in my STEAM project I only painted …
Eumenorrhea—normal menstrual/ovarian cycle: Hypothalamic pituitary ovarian axis. GnRH is secreted from the hypothalamus. Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) are secreted from the anterior pituitary. FSH and LH act on theca and granulosa cells of ovarian follicles to produce estrogens (and inhibin); estrogens act on the endometrial lining to …
For my STEAM project, I wanted to elaborate on topic of development and remodeling of bones in our body. One subject that really stuck out to me was the topic of osteoporosis, which was a topic we studied more in depth. While studying osteoporosis, our textbook compared the disease to …
