“Perhaps the most wretched people on this planet are those suffering obstetric fistulas,” a childbirth injury “often suffered by a teenager in Africa or Asia whose pelvis is not fully grown,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
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Science In Action: Saving The Lives Of Africa’s Mothers, Newborns, And Children is being released on Nov. 9 at the fifth annual conference of the African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI) in Accra, Ghana.
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A new study from a recent issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family shows that women who exit welfare (under TANF, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), are as likely to marry as women of similar socioeconomic backgrounds who were never on welfare. Marriage rates are lower while women receive TANF, but since most [...]
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Men with lower cholesterol are less likely than those with higher levels to develop high-grade prostate cancer - an aggressive form of the disease with a poorer prognosis, according to results of a Johns Hopkins collaborative study. In a prospective study of more than 5,000 U.S. men, epidemiologists say they now have [...]
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Penn Medicine will lead a new national $45 million clinical trial to test whether testosterone therapy can favorably affect certain conditions affecting older men. Low serum testosterone may contribute to a number of problems affecting older men, including decreased ability to walk, loss of muscle mass and strength, decreased vitality, decreased sexual function, impaired cognition, [...]
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SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) — The prevalence of asthma among those who responded to the World Trade Center on 9/11 is about twice that found in the general population, researchers found.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (MedPage Today) — The FDA has announced an initiative to cut down on the “longstanding problem” of preventable harm caused by abuse or misuse of prescription drugs.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA and online retailer Bodybuilding.com have announced a recall of all lots of 65 dietary supplements believed to contain steroids.
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BOSTON (MedPage Today) — Antimicrobial agents are the most common cause of drug-induced liver failure, with most cases ending in death or transplant, a researcher said here.
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Acceleron Pharma, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics that modulate the growth of cells and tissues including red blood cells, bone, muscle, fat, and the vasculature, today announced the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical study of ACE-041, a novel angiogenesis inhibitor that binds to and prevents members of the TGF-β superfamily from signaling [...]
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