Blogs Comment On Privacy Rights, Faith-based Pharmacies, Parental Involvement Laws
The following is a summary of selected women’s health-related blogs.
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Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
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was just the logical conclusion of a decision made by the Court eight years earlier.” Marcotte writes that in
Griswold v. Connecticut
, the Court “laid out the basic idea that citizens had a basic right to privacy Read the rest of this entry »
Houston Astros star and American League’s Most Valuable Player in 2002, Miguel Tejada apologised for lying to Congress.
The news comes as another massive blow to the sport, just daysafterNew York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 through 2003.
A teary-eyed Tejada acknowledged lying to Congress about the use of performance-enhancing drugs hours after pleading guilty in court.
Federal prosecutors Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING (AP) — Two Labrador retrievers — in uniforms and special leather shoes — started work this week as part of China’s first drug-sniffing dog unit to board airplanes, state media said Wednesday.
The dogs, named Weite and Haige, boarded a plane from the United Arab Emirates on Monday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, on their first seat-sniffing mission. If a dog smells traces of drugs on a seat, authorities are able Read the rest of this entry »
PHILADELPHIA Nuclear regulators have begun an investigation to determine why 55 prostate cancer patients received radiation treatments at lower than prescribed doses at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced today that a special inspection is under way at the facility in part because of the number of patients given incorrect radiation doses.
“We are concerned with the number of medical Read the rest of this entry »
Campaign to Visit Erie to Rally Residents to Eat Right, Move More and Milk Their Diets ERIE, Pa., Sept. 11
ERIE, Pa., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ — The last decade can be defined by the
ups and downs of different fad diets — which seem to go in and out of fashion
like shoulder pads and hemlines. Yet, long-term success has been slim. Two
out of three Americans remain overweight or obese.
Federal drug experts, gathered by the
, have decided that the drugs
, though they will not be banned from treating other approved pulmonary disorders like emphysema. It must be cautioned, however, that patients taking these drugs should not stop using them until
for an alternative. These two drugs are produced for the prevention of asthma attacks but must be paired with steroids otherwise severe attacks could commence; this means there is an Read the rest of this entry »
ROCKVILLE, Md. — One federal drug official told a panel of experts on Wednesday that more than 14,000 people may have died since 1994 after taking popular
drugs, while another suggested that even more might have died without the medicines.
Dr. David Graham, a safety official in the
, strongly recommended that the drugs, Advair, Symbicort, Serevent and Foradil, no longer be used to treat asthma in adults or children because they provide Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters) -– Eating a Mediterranean-style diet high in vegetables, fruits and nuts, legumes, fish and cereals, and low in dairy products, meat, and fat is not only good for the heart, it’s also good for the brain, new research hints.
In a study, “following Mediterranean diet-type habits was associated with reduced risk for getting mild cognitive impairment — a transitional stage between normal cognition and dementia/Alzheimer’s disease,” Read the rest of this entry »
Liz Browning nudged open the unlocked door of her son’s Capitol Hill apartment and recoiled at the floor blanketed with garbage — drifts of unopened bills, mounds of cigarette butts, rotting food and feces.
“Hello … hello?” Her voice captured on a video taken in March sounds strained, wishing her 22-year-old son into view, and at the same time terrified of what she might find. “We brought you some food. …”
She was startled, as her son Marc Read the rest of this entry »
THE University of Health Sciences (UHS) will hold entrance test for admissions to public and private medical/dental colleges for the session 2008-09 on Sunday (today).
The King Edward Medical University (KEMU), Lahore, was holding the entrance test through the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, for admissions to public medical and dental colleges of Punjab until last year.
The UHS will conduct entry test for admissions to Read the rest of this entry »