“The United Nations is widely known for functions like peacekeeping, health programs, refugee support and the International Court of Justice. But those are just a part of its bureaucracy, whose size and structure still bewilder many of its own employees,” the New York Times writes in an article that examines how the current economic situation [...]
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The New York Times reports on how microlending has “prompted political hostility in Bangladesh, India, Nicaragua and other developing countries.” Such negativity “toward microfinance is a sharp reversal from the praise and good will that politicians, social workers and bankers showered on the sector in the last decade…
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Global Health Is A Top Foreign Policy Issues For 2011 In response to a story examining 2011’s top foreign policy issues, Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, writes in a letter to the editor, published in The Hill, that “[g]lobal health was disturbingly absent from” [...]
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Girls who begin menstruating at an early age are at greater risk of depressive symptoms in adolescence, according to new research published in the January issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry…
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In response to reports of adverse events in the United Kingdom, drugmaker Merck said on Wednesday that the number of unintended pregnancies associated with its long-acting contraceptive implant, Implanon, is not exceptional and that women should continue to use the method, the AP/Google News reports (AP/Google News, 1/5)…
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British researchers have developed a formula that estimates a couple’s chances of having a child through in-vitro fertilization, Reuters reports. A free, online version of the calculator is available to help users decide whether to seek IVF…
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When a woman cries, chemicals in her tears send off signals which reduce sexual arousal in males - their libido goes down, scientists from the Weizmann Institute, Israel, revealed in the journal Science. How and why this happens is still a bit of a mystery because tears have no smell, but they contain compounds which [...]
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For parents wanting to reduce the negative influence of TV on their children, the first step is normally to switch off the television set. But a new study suggests that might not be enough. It turns out indirect media exposure, i.e., having friends who watch a lot of TV, might be even more damaging to [...]
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(MedPage Today) — All lots of isopropyl alcohol prep pads, swabs, and swabsticks made by Triad Group have been recalled because of possible contamination by Bacillus cereus bacteria.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — As part of its continued push to increase transparency, the FDA has launched a new Web-based resource that industry can use to keep abreast of the regulatory status for drugs, devices, food, and cosmetics.
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