Scientists have developed a model that will enable them to investigate, for the first time, how human testes develop in baby boys while they are in the womb…
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The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “A New Fight Over Abortion Access,” Joyce Tang, Daily Beast’s “Blogs & Stories”: Antiabortion-rights crisis pregnancy centers “have long operated under the guise of reproductive health care” and “been largely unregulated, even though they are eligible for federal abstinence-only funding,” Tang writes…
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New Meningitis Vaccine Scheduled For ‘Mass Campaign’ In October The WHO “recently gave approval to a new meningitis vaccine that is expected to cost only 50 cents a dose, a price many African governments and donors can afford,” the New York Times reports…
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Among Chinese women who are survivors of intimate partner violence, an advocacy intervention that included empowerment sessions and telephone support from social workers did not result in a clinically meaningful improvement in depressive symptoms, according to a study in the August 4 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights…
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Texas Sen. Bob Deuell (R) has asked state Attorney General Greg Abbott to clarify a 2005 law regarding which family planning clinics can participate in the state’s Women’s Health Program, Kaiser Health News/Texas Tribune reports…
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South Asia is “lagging behind” in poverty and hunger reduction and is “in danger” of missing key Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, a U.N. official told Asian ministers gathered to discuss MDGs progress, Agence France-Presse reports…
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The message that U.S. investment in global health “helps advance longer term security and development goals” while also supporting a “small but growing industry with good paying jobs and world class research” was the focus of a recent meeting between officials from Washington, D.C. and Washington State, the Seattle Times’ “Business of Giving” blog writes. [...]
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“Bipartisan legislation that would mandate a comprehensive plan to combat violence against women worldwide is poised for a potential congressional vote, marking tough new action by the United States on a problem that’s commonplace across the globe,” McClatchy Newspapers reports. In addition to offering protection to women worldwide, Rep. Bill [...]
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For patients with moderate pain after foot surgery, the cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX-2) inhibitor drug etoricoxib provides better pain relief with fewer side effects than the opioid drug tramadol, concludes a study in the August issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS)…
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Feeding infants with breast milk has been shown to improve baby health and even IQ. But according to dietitians, many new mums are unaware that breastfeeding also lowers their own risk of cancer and heart disease - two of the biggest killers among Australian women…
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