As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period.

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Submitted on August 20th 2016 by gladsdotter with 4 comments and with 1 Related Links:

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A 50-year study says more Vibrio infections correlate with rising water temperatures, representing “a direct impact on human health.”

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Submitted on August 19th 2016 by LisMan

Scientists have discovered a highly aggressive new strain of HIV in Cuba that develops into AIDS three times faster than more common strains of the virus. This finding could have serious public health implications for efforts to contain and reduce incidences of the virus worldwide. Researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium say the HIV strain CRF19 can progress to AIDS within two to three years of exposure to virus. Typically, HIV takes approximately 10 years to develop into AIDS. Patients with CRF19 may start getting sick before they even know they've been infected...

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Submitted on August 22nd 2016 by Chubros

A lavishly illustrated new book looks back at the strange and frequently sinister history of psychological testing.

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Submitted on August 18th 2016 by gladsdotter

By the time Rachel was hospitalized at New York City's Cornell Weill Psychiatry Specialty Center in July 2014, she was almost too exhausted to speak. For years, she had been traveling the same cloistered, unrelenting path on which many female members of her branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism find themselves: arranged marriage at 18, a domineering, sometimes abusive husband with whom she would have a bevy of kids. Duty, family, duty, duty. She was breaking slowly under that weight, and worst of all, she had no one to talk to.

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Submitted on August 22nd 2016 by rhingo

​You might expect a disease that can kill 95 per cent of its victims would be on everyone's radar. Not this one.

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Submitted on August 22nd 2016 by Appaloosa

Some of the headlines are alarming but pregnant women and their doctors should not change their current use of paracetamol on the basis of this paper.

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Submitted on August 20th 2016 by kxh

A body of research suggests yes, but scientists are having to fight red tape to study whether medical marijuana could substitute for opioid drugs

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Submitted on August 17th 2016 by Gozzin

A study by researchers at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior has found that a healthy diet, regular physical activity and a normal body mass index can reduce the incidence of protein build-ups that are associated with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. In the study, 44 adults ranging in age from 40 to 85 (mean age: 62.6) with mild memory changes but no dementia underwent an experimental type of PET scan to measure the level of plaque and tangles in the brain.

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Submitted on August 16th 2016 by Apolatia

In a powerful memoir of his brother, Colin Grant tells the story of a condition whose sufferers were killed in the middle ages for communicating with the devil

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Submitted on August 22nd 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Researchers from Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal and McGill University have just achieved a spectacular breakthrough in cancer research. They have developed new nanorobotic agents capable of navigating through the bloodstream to administer a drug with precision by specifically targeting the active cancerous cells of tumours. This way of injecting medication ensures the optimal targeting of a tumour and avoids jeopardizing the integrity of organs and surrounding healthy tissues. As a result, the drug dosage that is highly toxic for the human organism could be significantly reduced.

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Submitted on August 17th 2016 by drunkenninja

The experimental treatment combined transplanted neural stem cells with a protein called 3K3A-APC, the scientists said.

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Submitted on August 22nd 2016 by jcscher

Why it always makes you vomit.

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Submitted on August 22nd 2016 by kxh

Most addicts just stop using in time, without needing costly treatment. Why do some people walk away while others can’t? One of the most persistent and formative influences organising narratives of “ageing out” were the responsibilities and role demands connected to raising children.’ The more that individuals came to embrace their Navajo heritage, the more they expressed a sense that drinking simply didn’t fit anymore.

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Submitted on August 23rd 2016 by tranxene

Narcissists are imitators par excellence. And they do not copy the small, boring parts of selves. By Kristin Dombek.

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Submitted on August 22nd 2016 by AdelleChattre

The fast food giant was hoping Step It! Activity Band would be a means of getting kids active but Wednesday voluntarily removed the device from restaurants

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Submitted on August 18th 2016 by flappyjack

According to the CDC, in some instances the rates of STD infection for people over 65 rivals that of people in their 20s.

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Submitted on August 18th 2016 by Appaloosa

Health insurer Aetna announced late Monday that it is dropping Obamacare insurance in 69% of the counties and 11 of 15 states where it currently offers plans. The third largest health insurance company becomes the latest to pull back from the plans offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it cites heavy losses. Here's what that means for patients, insurers, the ACA and the company's fight with the government over its effort to acquire Humana. What does this mean for patients?

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Submitted on August 17th 2016 by Borska