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Postdoctoral research fellow at Emory University falsifies stem cell research data

2012-07-09T22:46:00.004-04:00

A former postdoc in the Department of Medicine at Emory University was found guilty of falsifying data presented at national and laboratory meetings, in ongoing and pending National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, and in manuscripts submitted to five high-profile journals, according to a report by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) published last Friday (July 6).

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Family's anguish as they face THIRD forced adoption

2012-04-08T16:47:00.001-04:00

A mum forced to give up her two kids for adoption by a gay couple wept last night as she told how her third baby has been offered to the same men.

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Latimer Truths Rarely Told

2012-03-26T00:09:00.001-04:00

When Robert Latimer first murdered his daughter because she had cerebral palsy, many people bemoaned that Robert had been forced to use car exhaust to put Tracy out of her ~~his~~ misery rather than have a doctor do the deed. But doctors should be no more able to kill children than parents.

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Moldova votes for chemical castration

2012-03-10T01:11:00.001-05:00

Chemical castration will be mandatory in Moldova for those convicted of violently abusing children under 15. Under a new law, foreigners and Moldovans convicted of violent paedophile offences will be chemically castrated.

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Marijuana's effect on brain doubled, study indicates

2012-03-08T11:59:00.000-05:00

Marijuana impairs the brain by acting on two types of brain cell at once, a new Ottawa study shows. Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Marijuana%2Beffect%2Bbrain%2Bdoubled%2Bstudy%2Bindicates/6268015/story.html#ixzz1oXshUNiI

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Anti-abortion activist rallies youth contest votes

2012-02-27T08:15:00.001-05:00

A campaign encouraging youth leadership has become the platform for a debate on abortion accessibility on Prince Edward Island.

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Is Pfizer Liable for Pregnancies Caused by Faulty Birth Control?

2012-02-24T00:09:00.002-05:00

If women end up pregnant because of this production debacle, what is Pfizer's legal responsibility? The cost of terminating the pregnancy or carrying the child to term? Physical and mental health issues related to the pregnancy? Rearing the child? Adverse outcomes during childbirth? Or are corporations such as Pfizer shielded by the law from facing substantive damages?

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Surrogacy is “reproductive prostitution”, says Dutch expert

2012-02-18T04:41:00.001-05:00

Once again Dutch legislators are organising a legal work-around for a procedure which is clearly illegal in the Netherlands. This time the issue is commercial surrogacy. The Deputy Justice Minister, Fred Teeven, is concerned that more and more Dutch women are seeking surrogate mothers abroad because fulfilling the conditions for legal surrogacy is quite onerous. The surrogate mother must be a family member, must work for free, and must not want any more children herself.

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Foetus parties: Womb with a view?

2012-02-11T02:32:00.001-05:00

The US tradition of having a baby shower to celebrate an impending birth is now commonplace in the UK. But "foetus parties", where people gather to view 3D and 4D scan pictures are also gaining in popularity.

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Clinical practice : Contraception in adolescents.

2012-02-11T00:43:00.001-05:00

ABSTRACT: In affluent societies, median age at menarche has dropped to below 13 years. Younger age at menarche is associated with earlier sexual activity. To avoid unintended teenage pregnancies, barriers to contraception provision must be kept low, i.e. availability without prescription or through a low-threshold prescription system, low-cost options and long-term prescriptions or easy refills.

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Study finds in utero surgery preferable to surgery

2012-02-09T07:31:00.000-05:00

DALLAS (Feb. 9, 2012) — In a study to be presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Dallas, Texas, researchers will report findings that show that, for children with spina bifida, surgery conducted while the fetus is still in utero as opposed to surgery on a newborn is more cost effective due to the costs associated with caring for a child with significant deficits.

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Babies cry in their 'mother tongue'

2012-02-09T07:21:00.001-05:00

NDTV report that researchers at the University of Wurzburg in Germany who carried out the study of language awareness in babies found that new babies cry with regional accents copied from their mothers and that their cries typical for their languages they have heard during their fetal life in the womb, within the last trimester before birth.

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Pavone's charities have $600K in overdue bills

2012-02-06T19:43:00.001-05:00

Twice last week, I received e-mail from Roman Catholic Priest Frank Pavone seeking donations. That’s not unusual. The fundraising marketing company used by Pavone’s pro-life charities – Priests for Life and several affiliates – makes several email pushes per week. But this one doesn’t appear to do much to bolster Pavone’s claims that the group hasn’t made flubbed management of donations.

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Study on men who have experienced abortions more than once

2012-02-06T19:27:00.000-05:00

Background: Prevention of unintended pregnancies is a public health objective; however, the profiles of male partners of women who choose to abort are relatively unexplored. Objective: To investigate risk factors among men who have repeated experience of being the partner of a woman electing an induced abortion

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Parents sue after Quebec teen dies following Gardasil vaccination

2012-02-02T14:11:00.000-05:00

MONTREAL, February 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The parents of a 14-year-old girl who died following Gardasil vaccinations provided by the Quebec government are suing the manufacture of the HPV vaccine, pharmaceutical giant Merck Frosst, as well as three doctors and a clinic, for $197,000.

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Gingrich proposes investigation of IVF clinics

2012-02-01T15:56:00.001-05:00

Bioethics is playing a walk-on role in the drama of the Republican primaries. Newt Gingrich has expressed his opposition to abortion and embryonic stem cell research and has called for an investigation of practices in IVF clinics. He believes that human life begins at conception.

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Child abuse scandals rock Hollywood. Or not.

2012-01-31T13:54:00.000-05:00

Just as the sordid but ongoing saga of filmmaker and convicted pedophile Roman Polanski fades once again from the headlines, stories of child abuse in Hollywood have erupted again, with an unprecedented frequency. Of course, if you don’t know where to look for this sort of news, you might never have heard a thing.

READ MORE: http://www.theinterim.com/features/child-abuse-scandals-rock-hollywood-or-not/.

Do we need a morality pill?

2012-01-30T12:52:00.001-05:00

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer and a research assistant, Agata Sagan, proposed a “morality pill” in a column in the New York Times this week. They speculate that moral behaviour is at least in part biochemically determined. Hence, it should be possible to engineer moral behaviour with drugs.

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Power increases infidelity among men and women.

2012-01-27T08:26:00.001-05:00

Abstract: Data from a large survey of 1,561 professionals were used to examine the relationship between power and infidelity and the process underlying this relationship.

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In Maryland, autistic boy beat up at the bus stop while peers watch and cheer; One posts video on Facebook

2012-01-26T22:25:00.003-05:00

Disturbing video has surfaced of a autistic boy in Cecil County who is punched by another boy while other children watch.

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Short-term sexual health effects of relationships with significantly older females on adolescent boys.

2012-01-24T16:22:00.003-05:00

PURPOSE: To examine the short-term effects on the sexual health of adolescent boys in age discordant relationships.

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Guyana: Woman accuses Dr. Sahadeo of rape during abortion

2012-01-23T07:59:00.001-05:00

A woman claiming to be a former patient of Dr Rama Sahadeo says she is willing to testify to the Medical Council of Guyana, and even in court about being drugged and raped at his clinic some 35 years ago.

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Man sexually abuses dog, posts pictures online

2012-01-22T13:35:00.003-05:00

METAIRIE, LA (CNN/WVUE) – State police arrested 21-year-old Blake Sanderford and charged him with taking video while he sexually abused his dog and then posting pictures of the assault on the internet.

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Estimating the prevalence of infertility in Canada

2012-01-21T01:04:00.001-05:00

BACKGROUND: Over the past 10 years, there has been a significant increase in the use of assisted reproductive technologies in Canada, however, little is known about the overall prevalence of infertility in the population. The purpose of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of current infertility in Canada according to three definitions of the risk of conception.

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Ukrainian Parliament banned broadcasting of palm reading programs

2012-01-19T20:23:00.001-05:00

On January, 12, the Ukrainian Parliament banned broadcasting of programs in which palm reading services are rendered , reports Christian Telegraph in reference to the Pavel Unguryan press room.

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