Until now, treatment has included vaginal lubricants and therapy with the female sex hormone oestrogen.
Tamoxifen blocks the female sex hormone oestrogen that fuels the growth of some breast tumours.
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The cause of this condition is unknown, but it is thought that it might be caused by elevated levels of the female sex hormone oestrogen.
Because the female sex drive is hypergamous, Princeton women, as Patton asserts, will be attracted to men who are their cognitive or educational equals or superiors.
For example, higher levels of the female sex hormone estrogen can stimulate the growth of breast and endometrial cancers, and fat cells are known to produce estrogen.
Dr Perls suggests that the main determinant of both lifespan and age of menopause may be oestrogen, the principal female sex hormone.
These hormones include cortisol (which is related to stress), estradiol (the main female sex hormone) and prolactin (which, as its name suggests, triggers her breast tissue to develop the ability to secrete milk).
Standard evolutionary theory says that females should generally be the choosy sex because a female's maximum reproductive output is more limited than a male's.
Last month a doctor and his assistant in Haryana were sentenced to two years in jail for revealing the sex of a female foetus and then agreeing to abort it.
For example, one way to track the reproductive cycle in a female is to follow the waxing and waning of sex hormones.
When Tom Cruise fell our of the movie Salt, Jolie stepped in and the producers gleefully changed the sex of the lead character from male to female.
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Hans Ellegren and Ben Sheldon, two biologists at the University of Uppsala, in Sweden, and their colleagues, have demonstrated that female collared flycatchers do indeed adjust the sex ratios of their broods according to the sexiness of their mates.
The female lawyers look more like Charlotte of Sex and the City than like Miranda.
Other doctors simply don't want to broach the subject of sex with their adolescent female patients, he said.
People with HSV-2 can protect their partners from contracting the virus by using male or female condoms during sex, and by taking virus-suppressing drugs.
The current combined pill, which contains progesterone and another female sex hormone oestrogen, has been linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.
The loss of all the skilled female workers meant it was hard for anybody of either sex to get health care or education any longer.
Elizabeth, 56, underwent a male-to-female sex change operation in 1981 and married Michael Bellinger the same year.
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In Punjab state, the sex ratio at birth improved from 129 male births per 100 female births in 1999-2001 to 119 in 2005-07.
Peers of the same sex were also highlighted as a key cause of pressure on female pupils to look good by 83% of respondents and on male pupils by 54%.
These are the male sex hormone testosterone and desogestrel, a synthetic steroid found in the female pill.
It could invalidate some unions involving an intersex partner, but also allow a genetic male and female to marry even if they look as if they belong to the same sex.
Chronicling the travails and triumphs of four single Manhattan women, Sex spawned a devoted female following and later a cottage industry that has generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue--and not just for the media giant.
Last September when the New York Jets made headlines for how they apparently mistreated an attractive female sports reporter, I wrote a Forbes SportsMoney piece that examined the use of sex appeal in various avenues within the sports industry.
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Male and female recruits were moved into adjoining rooms housing up to eight soldiers, all the same sex.
They might not be heading to the Olympic Games, but Jordan's female boxers are challenging gender stereotypes in a region where many perceive women as the weaker sex.
Wal-Mart, in which lawyers representing female employees of the discount chain allege women were denied management positions and pay because of their sex.
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That male and female gametes might meet and make merry whilst contending with turbulent currents, hungry predators and the sex cells of a plethora of likeminded shellfish, is itself a tremendous feat.
But if the husband did no stereotypically female tasks (making meals, perhaps, or scrubbing floors), couples had sex 1.6 times more per month than couples in which husbands shared housework.
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Exactly why mice sing is not yet known, but given that the males are stimulated to sing when they smell female pheromones, it seems likely that it is to do with sex.
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