Only Yes Means Yes: Sexual Coercion in Rural Adolescent Relationships

In Haliotis, NO means YES

Settlement and metamorphosis of marine invertebrate larvae is an ecological process of profound importance to the structure of benthic marine communities. Yet, metamorphosis is also a developmental process and our understanding of the mechanisms that regulate it remains relatively poor. Over the last 15 years, a nitric oxide (NO) based signaling system has emerged as the most phylogenetically w...

Sex during pregnancy: Yes, Yes, Yes!

Regular readers of this Journal will recall that it was just over a year ago that I was commissioned to explore the issue of ‘Grey Sex’:1 sexuality in the older age group and the challenges that raises for health professionals, not least in leading us to acknowledge that for human beings the sexual impulse does not inevitably fade. Fast forward, and in this Journal issue I want to explore sex a...

Yes, yes, IL-6: what else?

IN THIS ISSUE of the Journal of Applied Physiology, the article “Time course of changes in inflammatory markers during a 6-mo exercise intervention in sedentary middle-aged men: a randomized-controlled trial” by Thompson and colleagues (6), independent of the specific sets of results presented in the manuscript, addresses a more general question that many laboratories, in a variety of forms, ha...

Opinion: Yes

Nowadays, synthetic meshes are widely used in reconstructive surgeries of the pelvic floor. However, since the publication of the FDA warning about associated complications in 2011 (1), several discussions and contrary opinions have been published about its usefulness. The fear of court lawsuits related to side effects, common in some settings, has contributed to the widening of global discussi...

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