Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
“U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon marked International Women’s Day Wednesday calling for gender equality and the empowerment of women, saying that until women and girls are liberated from poverty and injustice; peace, security and sustainable development stand in jeopardy,” VOA News reports. Though the international community will officially mark the occasion [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
Philippines’ Health Secretary Seeks To Boost Condom Distribution After Increase In HIV Diagnoses The Philippines’ Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral on Thursday announced she would seek additional public funds to support the distribution of condoms among high-risk groups, after the country recorded 143 new cases of HIV in January - its [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes recent action in Colorado and Wyoming related to a “personhood” initiative and bills addressing crimes against pregnant women…
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
“Last week, 21 Idaho senators injected themselves into private, painful decisions about conception, abortion and euthanasia” by advancing a bill (SB 1353) that would shield health care professionals from liability if they “decline to provide services that violate their conscience,” an Idaho Statesman editorial states…
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
Birth control use in three rural areas of Afghanistan increased over an eight-month period after health workers explained the benefits of contraception in individual counseling sessions, according to a report published Monday in the World Health Organization’s journal Bulletin, the AP/Yahoo! News reports…
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
The Uzbek human rights group Najot and the Expert Working Group, an independent Uzbek think tank, alleged this week that Uzbekistan’s Health Ministry has instructed government doctors to perform hysterectomies on women to help control the nation’s population, the AP/Google reports…
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — A day after the American Cancer Society (ACS) released updated prostate cancer screening guidelines, the group’s chief medical officer was before Congress urging the government to fund research into alternative methods for prostate cancer screening.
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA approved a name change for the gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) treatment dexlansoprazole (Kapidex) due to confusion over its marketed name with other, very different drugs.
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA and manufacturer of the HomeChoice and HomeChoice PRO dialysis systems notified patients of a class I device recall — the FDA’s most severe — after a number of reported injuries and one death.
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Posted on March 6th, 2010 by Health News
Lundbeck Inc. today announced the presentation of results from an open-label extension study of Xenazine- (tetrabenazine) for the treatment of chorea associated with Huntington’s disease (HD). Data from this study demonstrated that after an 80-week treatment period, subjects treated with Xenazine experienced a statistically significant reduction in chorea score (p< 0.0001) as measured using the [...]
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