Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Health News
The Kentucky Senate on Monday voted 32-4 to approve a bill (SB 38) that would require physicians to show women an ultrasound and describe “the dimensions of the embryo or fetus and the presence of external members and internal organs, if present and viewable,” the Louisville Courier-Journal reports (Gerth, Louisville Courier-Journal, 1/25). State Sen…
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Health News
Pakistan Moves Forward On Plans To Sell Farmland To Foreign Investors Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Tuesday the country plans to sell farmland to foreign investors despite warnings by the U.N. that doing so could compromise farmers’ rights, Reuters reports…
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Health News
Ruth Proskauer Smith, a longtime abortion-rights advocate and one of the founding members of NARAL Pro-Choice America, died Friday in Manhattan at age 102, the New York Times reports. Smith’s work in the reproductive rights field began as a field worker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts in the 1940s, and she later worked [...]
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Health News
As president of the G8 in 2010, “Canada will champion a new G8 identity focused on ending child mortality and other health woes in poorer countries when it hosts the club of industrialized nations in June, the government said Tuesday,” Agence France-Presse reports…
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About one in five female patients at family planning centers report experiencing reproductive coercion — pressure by a male partner through verbal threats, physical violence or birth control tampering to become pregnant, according to a study published in the journal Contraception, Newsweek reports…
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New scientific advances in the field of assisted reproduction “could add a futuristic twist to an area where the law already is a mess: the question of who, in this age of artificial insemination and surrogacy, should be considered the legal parents of a baby,” columnist Adam Cohen writes in the New York Times…
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There is no evidence to support the widespread practice of not allowing women in labor to eat or drink, according to a systematic review published last week by the Cochrane Collaboration, the New York Times reports. For many years, women have been told not to eat or drink, regardless of the length of time they [...]
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Boys face high rates of a variety of mental health issues, in addition to lagging behind girls in academic performance and college attendance, according to two new papers by University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher Judith Kleinfeld…
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — In a rare display of bipartisanship, a top House Democrat agreed to back a Republican lawmaker’s quest to urge the release of details on closed-door deals the White House made with healthcare industry insiders.
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by Health News
Raising seniors’ copayments for ambulatory care to offset rising healthcare costs may backfire on insurers, researchers asserted.
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