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Over the past decade, obstetricians have noted an interesting phenomenon more women rejecting the concept of a natural birth and requesting elective cesarean deliveries, sometimes called patient-choice cesareans or cesareans on demand.
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If an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) were to occur in the United States this year, our health care and public health systems might have a significantly harder time detecting and containing spread of the virus than the countries that experienced cases last year, experts say.
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Canadas drug shortage from U.S. Internet sales?
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As legal arguments about the fate of Florida resident Terri Schiavo continue to work their way through the states court system, the new law allowing Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene in her case is prompting much debate in bioethics circles.
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The nations insurance coverage crisis is even worse than many policy analysts have feared, with nearly 38% of Americans younger than age 65 going without insurance at some point over a four-year period from 1996-1999, according to a study sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund, a private, social research foundation based in New York City.
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The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP), a nonprofit research advocacy organization based in New York City, offers the following recommendations for the safety of children involved in clinical research:
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In the emergency department (ED) at Palmetto Health-Richland, a 649-bed regional community teaching hospital in Columbia, SC, two waiting rooms have been converted into functional, secure units for patients with behavioral health problems who are waiting for transfer to a mental health treatment facility.
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New federal laws aimed at encouraging drug companies to study how well their products work in children have had the unintended consequence of weakening already vague protections that prevent child research subjects from being exploited, a leading human subjects research advocate claims.
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Hastings Center issues report on reprogenetics
