With the help of a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University is creating a cross-discipline, mentored program designed to increase the number and diversity of researchers in women’s health…
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Recent Releases In Global Health
Steps The U.S. Can Take To Improve Its Commitment To Development A Center for Global Development memo offers suggestions for the U.S. to improve its commitment to policies that benefit poor countries after it ranked 17th out of 22 wealthy i…
Abortion Rights Supporters, Children’s Groups, GOP Pushing Back On Various Health Law Provisions
“Elective abortions will be prohibited and people with pre-existing conditions will be able to get comprehensive benefits without paying any more than healthy people, under new federal regulations for high-risk health insurance pools released … by th…
Thirty Million Women Will Gain From Health Reform Law, Including About 15 Million Uninsured
Approximately thirty million American women will gain from the new health reform law over the next ten years, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation based in New York…
Oral Contraceptives And Hormone Replacement Therapy May Protect Women Against Brain Aneurysms
Results from a new study suggest that oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may yield additional benefit of protecting against the formation and rupture of brain aneurysms in women…
Genetic Link Between Two Rare Diseases Established By Next Generation Sequencing
Scientists have successfully used “next generation sequencing” to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder…