Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Health News
This week, abortion-rights opponents in Colorado began collecting signatures in an attempt to place a “personhood” amendment before voters that would give human embryos legal protection as people under the state constitution, the AP/CBS4 reports. The advocates are trying to collect enough signatures to place the proposed amendment on the state’s 2010 ballot.
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Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Health News
IBM on Monday announced the expansion of the company’s Corporate Service Corps, which sends teams of professionals around the world “to work pro bono with local organizations and businesses on projects that intersect business, technology and society,” Daily Independent/allAfrica.com reports.
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Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Health News
“You know things have gotten confusing when even the independent ‘fact checking’ organizations can’t agree with each other,” Steven Waldman, founder of Beliefnet, writes in the Wall Street Journal, adding that the “question that tripped them up” is whether heath care reform proposals cover abortion services.
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Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Health News
Dr. S. Vincent Grasso, a member of the Stevens Healthcare Information Technology Management Advisory Board and Seminar Leader for the Stevens Healthcare Educational Partnership (SHEP), will act as technical lead, solution provider and systems integrator within a nation-wide initiative to enhance the quality of care to women of color suffering from HIV/AIDS.
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Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Health News
GPs and health professionals working in maternity, obstetrics, gynaecology, and sexual health are today being asked to take part in new study into Female Genital Mutilation in a bid to better ensure that services to protect women and girls are as effective as possible. The study aims [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2009 by Health News
Circumcision “doesn’t help protect gay men” from HIV, according to a study presented by CDC researchers at the agency’s 2009 HIV Prevention Conference in Atlanta, the Associated Press reports. For the study, researchers looked at nearly 4,900 men who had sex with HIV-positive men, “and found the infection rate, about 3.
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Patients with stroke or transient ischemic attack are at high risk for vascular events, and researchers are suggesting that they may not show any signs or symptoms. Medscape Medical News
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The CDC and other organizations have updated previous guidelines for children who have been exposed to HIV or who are infected with HIV, and who are therefore at increased risk for OIs. Medscape Medical News
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A cohort study shows that for every 4 to 7 patients evaluated for hematuria, hemoptysis, dysphagia, or rectal bleeding, relevant diagnoses will be identified in 1 patient within 90 days. Medscape Medical News
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Myocardial perfusion imaging alone accounts for 22% of the effective radiation dose from all study procedures, while CT scans of the abdomen, pelvis, and chest account for nearly 38%. An editorial states that there is a need for high-quality imaging trials to justify the risk patients are being exposed to with these tests. [...]
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