Posted on July 2nd, 2009 by Health News
Governor M. Jodi Rell announced that the State of Connecticut is receiving $3.75 million federal grant to expand access to health care in Hartford for low-income women nearing childbirth to ensure their newborns get a healthy start. “Our children are our most precious resource and the health of a child [...]
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NARAL Pro-Choice America on Monday announced its endorsement of appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in her bid for a full term in 2010, Politico reports. New York Gov. David Paterson (D) in January appointed Gillibrand to fill the Senate seat vacated by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously voted to uphold Al Franken’s (D) win in the 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota, effectively clearing the way for Franken to become the state’s newest senator, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Colorado Right to Life and Personhood USA are proposing a 2010 state ballot initiative with a different version of 2008’s defeated “personhood” amendment to the state constitution, the
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The U.S. should conduct research to compare the effectiveness of innovative programs aimed at preventing unintended pregnancy, according to a report issued Tuesday by a congressionally convened Institute of Medicine panel, the New York Times reports (Meier, New York Times, 7/1).
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There is growing evidence that a procedure for identifying chromosomal abnormalities in embryos prior to in vitro fertilization is ineffective at helping older women become pregnant, the Wall Street Journal reports. The procedure — known as pre-implantation genetic screening, or PGS — is performed in dozen of U.S.
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“Domestic violence is a serious law enforcement and public health problem affecting as many as one in four women in this country,” but “Washington has devoted too little attention to reducing domestic violence and sexual assaults generally,” a New York Times editorial states.
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Selected highlights from a new study on immigration, health and gender roles: Mexican wives who stay home when their husbands immigrate to the United States for work have poorer mental health than a comparison group. Shifting gender roles seem to be equally as stressful as the husbands’ [...]
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A new study examining the evolution of maternal mortality rates in Spain since 1996 shows a 17% increase in deaths. This trend is linked to the widespread increase in maternal age. The highest death rates are among foreign women and those who live in the province of Malaga. Medicine has taken giant [...]
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for the Company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Ortho McNeil Janssen’s oral contraceptive, Ortho Tri-Cyclen® Lo. Shipment of this product, for which Teva’s trade name is Tri-Lo Sprintec, has commenced.
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