Medicine NewsWorldwide, 13% of women who give birth suffer from postnatal depression, which causes a significant deterioration in a mother’s quality of life and her ability to care for her baby. Now, Spanish researchers have developed a model to diagnose this illness with a predictive power of 80% – the best result to date for this [...]
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FDA last month sent a warning letter to a breast pump manufacturer, telling company officials that they should have investigated complaints from women who said the “Comfort Select” pumps electrically shocked them, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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After three years of negotiations, the United Nations General Assembly on Monday voted unanimously to authorize the creation of a new, more powerful agency for women’s issues, Reuters reports. The new agency will consolidate four existing U.N.
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Today sees the launch of a new report called Testing targets: findings from the United Kingdom Gay Men’s Sex Survey 2007. The survey was carried out by Sigma Research and commissioned by Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), on behalf of the CHAPS partnership. It is the largest survey of its kind in the world, with over [...]
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AP – In a bid to ramp up the public health battle against obesity, a group of nutrition and economics experts are pushing for a tax of 1 cent on every of ounce of sodas and other sweetened beverages.
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AP – Plan on getting your swine flu shot at work? Don’t count on it. The new vaccine will be rationed initially to groups most at risk of contracting the virus or developing complications children and young adults, pregnant women, health care workers and the chronically ill. People caring for infants will also receive [...]
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AP – Makers of injected promethazine, a sedative also used to treat nausea and vomiting, are being required to put the strongest warning possible on the product because it can cause tissue damage leading to amputation, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
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