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30 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
The group Alaskans Against Government Mandates -- which opposes a ballot initiative that would require parental notification for state minors seeking abortions -- has reported collecting five times the money disclosed by Alaskans for Parental Rights, which supports the initiative, the AP/Anchorage Daily News reports...
30 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
Health insurers have started to back down "on their decision to pull out of the child-only coverage market after the Obama administration addressed their concerns about the potential damage to their bottom lines," The Hill reports. "The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday clarified regulations mandating that insurance plans agree to cover sick children...
30 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
This year "India has reported the lowest number of polio cases in [the] January-June period ... in a decade," PTI/ZeeTV reports. Twenty-four cases were detected between January and June this year, compared to 151 in the corresponding 2009 period, and 317 in January-June 2008 (7/29). According to LiveMint...
30 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
Epoch Times Examines Child Marriage Hearing An Epoch Times article discusses a recent congressional hearing held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on child marriage...
30 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
The following summarizes selected women's health related videos. GRITtv Explores Reproductive Coercion: GRITtv recently examined dating violence and reproductive coercion among teenagers...
30 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
Celebrating the pediatric nurse at the bedside was the central theme of the 26th Annual Pediatric Nursing Conference, July 16-18, 2010, in Philadelphia, PA. More than 275 pediatric nurses from across the country and around the world attended this landmark annual event. Attendees networked with colleagues, enhanced leadership skills and explored the latest advances in care...
30 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
Media outlets continued to reflect on news from the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, which attracted over 19,000 participants from 197 countries to Vienna last week, according to the conference blog. The Washington Post reports that "concerns about [the] costs" of global HIV treatment programs "dominated the talk" of the conference...
30 Jul 2010 at 5:00am
"[H]umanitarian watchdog Development Initiatives outlines some of the needs, responses and funding trends" in humanitarian aid over the past decade in its 2010 Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report, IRIN writes in an article that examines the organization's findings. According to the report, private funding is the "rising star" in humanitarian aid, IRIN reports...
30 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning that inadvertent exposure to Evamist through skin contact with patients using this product has the potential for adverse effects in children and pets. Evamist contains estradiol, an estrogen hormone, and is used in women to reduce hot flashes during menopause...
30 Jul 2010 at 4:00am
MediPurpose® announced the launch of its latest safety medical product, the babyLance™ heel incision device for infants. A complement to the company's vastly popular line of SurgiLance® safety lancets, babyLance™ is a safe, easy and effective solution for newborn heel incisions...
30 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
A genetics research team based at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocations-places in which two chromosomes exchange pieces of themselves. As many as 1 in 600 persons carry balanced chromosome translocations, which involve no loss or gain of DNA...
30 Jul 2010 at 3:00am
Shionogi Inc., a U.S.-based group company of Shionogi & Co., Ltd., announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of CUVPOSA™ (glycopyrrolate), the first liquid treatment for patients ages 3-16 who suffer from chronic severe drooling associated with neurologic conditions such as cerebral palsy. CUVPOSA™ was designated an Orphan Drug by the FDA...
30 Jul 2010 at 2:00am
A new study from Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and a 'Western-style' diet in adolescents. The research findings have just been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorders...
29 Jul 2010 at 7:00am
According to Smart Nutra Inc., there were 6-12 million outbreaks of head lice reported in the United States this year. Large outbreaks of louse infestations have also been reported from all over the world including Israel, Denmark, Sweden, U.K., France and Australia. The number of cases of human louse infestations (or pediculosis) worldwide is in the hundreds of millions...
29 Jul 2010 at 6:00am
A Fair Exchange The New York Times The battle over health care reform won't end just because Republicans and Democrats find they can cooperate on exchanges...
