Family Planning (Pregnancy, Well Baby)
03/04/2007
A study
published in the February 21 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience offers new hope for multiple sclerosis patients. In tests involving mice, injections of the pregnancy-related hormone prolactin resulted in repair of damage to myelin, a fatty substance that helps nerve fibers conduct electrical impulses. (In MS, the immune system is believed to attack the myelin protecting the nerve cells, which disrupts the ability of the nerves to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain.
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03/02/2007
In Carey,30
the court decided that a statute requiring youth under sixteen to obtain contraception from physicians was not constitutional where “appellants assert[ed] no medical necessity for imposing a medical limitation on the distribution of nonprescription contraceptives to minors.”31
Without research to support the age distinction made by Plan B, the courts are left to conclude that the FDA's regulation of this contraceptive is based more on politics than actual concerns with the physical harm of minors.
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03/01/2007
Today, 1 in 8 infants, or about 13%, is born before the usual 40-week gestation period, according to the March of Dimes, compared with 9.4% in 1981. A baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered a preterm, or premature, birth. Preterm birth is the nation's leading cause of infant death, responsible for more than one-third of infant deaths before age 1, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"The rate of preterm births is going up, and we don't always know why," says Mary Ames-Castro, MD, an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
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