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Fertility on hold for child cancer patients
For parents of young children diagnosed with cancer, looking ahead can be at once terrifying and consoling. Now, a burgeoning field of research allows those parents to consider their pre-pubescent child's ability to someday bear children — and to...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health Treatments
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Untreatable Gonorrhea Spreading Worldwide, WHO Warns
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- A major public health crisis is emerging, in the form of a sexually-transmitted disease that doesn't respond to antibiotics, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually-transmitted...Tags: Politics, Health, Health Organizations, International Organizations, Gonorrhea
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Online Dish: Man Fails to Tell Wife about Vasectomy Letting Her Think She's Infertile
KIAHAll of the women who lie about takingtheir birth control and "trap" a man, allow me to introduce you to the man who didn't tell his wife he had a vasectomy! A wife writing to an advice column on Slate says she and her husband "Harry" struggled for two...Tags: Advice Columns and Columnists, Vasectomy
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The hCG Diet: Can prescription hCG aid weight loss?
Products marketed as “homeopathic” hcG drops, pellets or sprays are unapproved new drugs and therefore illegal, federal agencies said yesterday. But what about the injectable form of hCG, which is available only by prescription? HCG, or human...
Tags: Health, Food and Drug Administration, Weight
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Teacher says Catholic school fired her over IVF
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana teacher who says she was fired from a Roman Catholic school for using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant is suing in a case that could set up a legal showdown over reproductive and religious rights. Emily...
Tags: Laws, Employment Opportunities, Vincent de Paul, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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Exploring Your Options with Egg Freezing
With the fast-paced lifestyles and time-consuming jobs that many women are committed to these days, it seems that more and more women are trying to have children only to find out that it is "too late." Recent advances in medicine now allow women the...
Tags: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Health, Genes and Chromosomes, Health Treatments
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Understanding the new pap smear guidelines
Many women became used to having a Pap smear annually to check for cervical cancer, but recent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force have updated the timeline. Now, most women will need the test every five years. Cancer experts...Tags: General Practitioners, Entertainment, Colonoscopy, Vaginal Discharge, Concerts
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Treating menopause symptoms
Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...Tags: Acupuncture, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Stress, Health Treatments, Breast Cancer
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Fort Wayne teacher fired for using in vitro fertilization speaks out
A Fort Wayne, Ind., teacher fired after higher-ups at the Catholic School she was teaching at learned she was using in vitro fertilization to get pregnant spoke out Friday. Emily Herx said all she and her husband, Brian, wanted was more children....
Tags: Belief and Faith, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Christianity
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Study ties fertility treatment, birth defect risk
Test-tube babies have higher rates of birth defects, and doctors have long wondered: Is it because of certain fertility treatments or infertility itself? A large new study from Australia suggests both may play a role. Compared to those conceived...Tags: Cornell University, Health, Genes and Chromosomes, Australia, Birth Defects
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Diocese wants fertilization suit dismissed
Associated PressINDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana diocese asked a federal court on Monday to reject a lawsuit by a former parochial schoolteacher who claims she was fired for violating Roman Catholic doctrine by using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant. The...Tags: Laws, Employment Opportunities, Vincent de Paul, Crime, Law and Justice, Separation of Church and State
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