A bill (S. 221) approved by the North Carolina Legislature that would require a public school sex education curriculum covering abstinence, contraception and sexually transmitted infections “will be the most comprehensive and science-based approach the state has used” for sex education, a
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A new technique for transplanting the ovaries of women who have lost their fertility as a result of cancer treatment was outlined to the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. Dr. Pascal Piver, manager of the IVF Centre at Limoges University Hospital, Limoges, France, described a new, two-step method [...]
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Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that an ingredient in human breast milk protects and repairs the delicate intestines of newborn babies. The ingredient called pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor, or PSTI, is found at its highest levels in colostrum - the milk produced in the first few days after [...]
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A substantial number of European patients travel to other countries for fertility treatment, both because they think that they will receive better quality care abroad and in order to undergo procedures that are banned in their home country says a study of the subject launched at the 25th annual conference of the European Society of [...]
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Sixty-two percent of U.S. residents want Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be confirmed, and 55% say she is “about right” on a liberal-to-conservative scale, according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, the
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In an unprecedented move today, millions of midwives, nurses and doctors across the world delivered a message to G8 leaders to take urgent action to prevent women dying needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth. With more than half a million maternal deaths every year, health workers have joined forces to ask world leaders [...]
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LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (MedPage Today) — The new H1N1 flu virus has the ability to cause serious illness and death among young individuals with no preexisting medical conditions, Mexican researchers confirmed.
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WHEELING, W.Va. (MedPage Today) — Studies of cancer drugs that are expected to find survival advantages of two months or less should be undertaken only if the treatment costs less than $20,000, two NIH researchers recommended.
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ATLANTA (MedPage Today) — At least one million people in the U.S. have been infected with the new H1N1 flu virus, according to preliminary findings from the CDC.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — Widespread prostate cancer screening substantially increases diagnoses without much evidence for a survival benefit, a review found.
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