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Women comprise more than half the population of the nation's cities, are three times as likely as their male counterparts to live alone after the age of 65, and are primary caregivers for their families at all ages and stages of life...

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Children with a cleft lip or cleft palate are more likely to receive recommended age-appropriate health care when that care is provided by an interdisciplinary team rather than an individual provider. In a study encompassing three states, Arkansas, Iowa and New York, 24% of participants were not receiving team care...

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3500 20- to 24-year-old women from Tromsø and Hamar in Norway were offered free hormonal contraception for a year. The result was that the abortion rate in the trial cities was halved...

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Too many people in England are receiving poor quality out-of-hours doctors services, the Patients Association says.

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It turns out that there is a striking similarity between how the human brain determines what is going on in the outside world and the job of scientists. Good science involves formulating a hypothesis and testing whether this hypothesis is compatible with the scientist's observations...

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(Indiana University) A new mathematical model developed by Indiana University Bloomington and Arizona State University geographers could help communities that are in the midst of passing or reforming sex offender laws. The researchers describe the model and report its first test in an early view edition of Papers in Regional Science.

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(American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine) Eighty-four percent of males who had ACL knee (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction with a patellar tendon (the tendon that attaches the knee to the front of the tibia or shin bone) graft continue at a high level of activity 15 years later, according to a study presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 13). Additionally, these patients have not developed severe

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An ongoing outbreak of mumps in the Hasidic (Jewish) community in New York and New Jersey prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a Health Advisory this week. Medscape Medical News

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Obese women drinking little more than a glass of wine a day have double the risk of liver disease compared with those who are slimmer, experts warn.

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A hepatitis C sufferer tells her story

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Related Articles Fecal incontinence in primary care: prevalence, diagnosis, and health care utilization. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Dunivan GC, Heymen S, Palsson OS, von Korff M, Turner MJ, Melville JL, Whitehead WE OBJECTIVE: We sought to estimate the frequency of self-reported fecal incontinence (FI), identify what proportion of these patients have a diagnosis of FI in their medical record, and compare health care costs and utilization in patient

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Related Articles Correlation between levator ani muscle injuries on magnetic resonance imaging and fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, and urinary incontinence in primiparous women. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Heilbrun ME, Nygaard IE, Lockhart ME, Richter HE, Brown MB, Kenton KS, Rahn DD, Thomas JV, Weidner AC, Nager CW, Delancey JO OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to correlate the presence of major levator ani muscle (LAM) injuries

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Related Articles Lower urinary tract injury in women in the United States, 1979-2006. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Frankman EA, Wang L, Bunker CH, Lowder JL OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine age-adjusted rates (AARs) of lower urinary tract injury and incidence in selected inpatient gynecologic and obstetric procedures. STUDY DESIGN: We utilized the National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1979-2006. AARs of nonobstetric bladder and ureteral injuries and i

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Related Articles Is computed tomography a reliable diagnostic modality in detecting placental injuries in the setting of acute trauma? Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Manriquez M, Srinivas G, Bollepalli S, Britt L, Drachman D OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether computed tomography (CT) is a reliable method of imaging to assess placental injury after acute trauma during pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN: This study was a retrospective r

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The Liberal Democrats would not back a governing party which proposes "merrily slashing" public spending immediately, Nick Clegg has said.

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Related Articles Association of hypoglycemia with mortality for subjects hospitalized with pneumonia. Am J Med Sci. 2010 Mar;339(3):239-43 Authors: Mortensen EM, Garcia S, Leykum L, Nakashima B, Restrepo MI, Anzueto A BACKGROUND:: Previous research has shown that hypoglycemia is associated with worse outcomes for the elderly, in sepsis, and in children with pneumonia. The purpose of this study was to examine whether hypoglycemia (<70 mg/dL) is associated with

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Related Articles Insulin regimens in type 2 diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2010 Mar 11;362(10):959; author reply 960 Authors: Lund SS, Vaag AA PMID: 20220196 [PubMed - in process]

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Related Articles Low diagnostic yield of elective coronary angiography. N Engl J Med. 2010 Mar 11;362(10):886-95 Authors: Patel MR, Peterson ED, Dai D, Brennan JM, Redberg RF, Anderson HV, Brindis RG, Douglas PS BACKGROUND: Guidelines for triaging patients for cardiac catheterization recommend a risk assessment and noninvasive testing. We determined patterns of noninvasive testing and the diagnostic yield of catheterization among patients with suspected coronary

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Related Articles Phenotypic characteristics and diagnoses of patients referred to an iron overload clinic. Dig Dis Sci. 2010 Mar;55(3):803-7 Authors: Dever JB, Mallory MA, Mallory JE, Wallace D, Kowdley KV BACKGROUND: There are limited data on the phenotypic differences between patients with hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) and other forms of iron overload. AIMS: To describe and compare patients suspected of having iron overload disease. METHODS: Patients were ev

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Related Articles Infection-related stillbirths. Lancet. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Goldenberg RL, McClure EM, Saleem S, Reddy UM Infection is an important cause of stillbirths worldwide: in low-income and middle-income countries, 50% of stillbirths or more are probably caused by infection. By contrast, in high-income countries only 10-25% of stillbirths are caused by infection. Syphilis, where prevalent, causes most infectious stillbirths, and is the infection most ame

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Related Articles Is laminin gamma-1 a candidate gene for advanced pelvic organ prolapse? Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Chen C, Hill LD, Schubert CM, Strauss JF, Matthews CA OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine allele frequencies of 3 LAMC1 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Caucasian and African American (AA) women with stage > II pelvic organ prolapse (POP) (cases) and in ethnicity-matched controls with stage < 2 POP. We also sought to det

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Related Articles Placental vascular lesion differences in pregnancy-induced hypertension and normotensive fetal growth restriction. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Kovo M, Schreiber L, Ben-Haroush A, Wand S, Golan A, Bar J OBJECTIVE: Pregnancy-induced hypertension/preeclampsia (PIH) and fetal growth restriction (FGR) share a common placental origin. The pathologic classification that divides placental lesions to maternal or fetal origin was compared bet

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Related Articles Nicotine restores endothelial dysfunction caused by excess sFlt1 and sEng in an in vitro model of preeclamptic vascular endothelium: a possible therapeutic role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) agonists for preeclampsia. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 10; Authors: Mimura K, Tomimatsu T, Sharentuya N, Tskitishvili E, Kinugasa-Taniguchi Y, Kanagawa T, Kimura T OBJECTIVE: In this study we tested the hypothesis that nicotine restores proang

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Related Articles Trends in inpatient prolapse procedures in the United States, 1979-2006. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2010 Mar 9; Authors: Jones KA, Shepherd JP, Oliphant SS, Wang L, Bunker CH, Lowder JL OBJECTIVE: We sought to describe national trends for inpatient procedures for pelvic organ prolapse from 1979-2006. STUDY DESIGN: The National Hospital Discharge Survey was analyzed for patient and hospital demographics, as were International Classification of Diseases,

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