WASHINGTON It’s the morning after and the controversy over how to sell emergency contraception still looms.
The Obama administration’s top health official stopped plans Wednesday to let the Plan B morningafter pill move onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms.
Overruling scientists at the Food and Drug Administration, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decided that young girls shouldn’t be able to buy the pill on their own, saying she was worried about confusing 11yearolds.
For now, Plan B will stay behind pharmacy counters, available without a prescription only to those 17 and older who can prove their age.
It was the latest twist in a nearly decadelong push for easier access to pills that can prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, and one with electionyear implications.
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HOUSTON Recruitment is ongoing at Texas Children’s Cancer Center for a Phase 1 clinical trial in children with cancer using a novel immunotherapy approach called oncolytic virus therapy.
The trial, launched last spring and led by Dr. Chrystal Louis, assistant professor of pediatric hematology/oncology at Baylor College of Medicine, is also being conducted at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Immune cells destroy cancer cells
“This approach uses a modified smallpox virus that kills tumor cells but spares normal cells. I
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Unprotected anal intercourse with casual partners (UAIC) is the strongest predictor of HIV incidence among gay men. Familiarity between sex partners has been associated with likelihood to engage in UAIC, but the decision to use condoms with partners who are previously acquainted is complex and multifaceted. Using data from the Pleasure and Sexual Health survey 2009, we investigated the association between aspects of familiarity with casual partners and disclosure of HIV serostatus. Read more…
Baby names are a big deal! Generally speaking, you have one chance to give your child the perfect name, and as we all know, so much is attached to a name. Every year, the Social Security Administration publishes the most popular baby names of the year.
However, BabyCenter recently posted its list of the most popular baby names of 2011. At the top of the girls list of most popular names in 2011 was Sophia, while Aiden nabbed the most popular boys name spot.
The most popular baby names for girls were predictable, I think: Sophia, Emma, Isabella, Olivia and Ava.
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Surely you’ve been hearing a lot about this new system available to medical professionals that will help them be more organized when caring for their patients. If not, then you will be thrilled to know that this tool is designed to keep a patient’s medical records and personal information secure. It’s a much better tool than the file cabinets that you see filled with records and other important patient information. While file cabinets can be very effective, the EMR software is much more effective. The EMR Software for Medical facilities and how it works is a fairly simple deal.
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Question: What extra essentials do you carry in your yoga bag?
Yoga is a do-anywhere, anytime kinda practice. That’s why we at My Yoga Online are big fans of anything that helps us take our practice with us everywhere we go.
Enter the YogaSak —a yoga mat carrier that’s so well thought-out we think they may have consulted Einstein during the design process. It’s back-pack style, so we can strap it on when riding our bike without having to deal with it slipping from side to side. The straps are adjustable, so we can make it fit however we like. And here
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