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Battling brain drain: Training doctors in Ethiopia
Brain drain is so severe in Ethiopia that the nation's health minister has complained there are more Ethiopian doctors in Chicago than in his own country.
Sep 24, 2013
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Pediatrics
The benefits of touch for babies, parents
For babies, the nine months of pregnancy may feel like one long, loving embrace. It's not surprising, then, that studies support the benefits of skin-to-skin contact for mothers and babies from the moment of birth, throughout ...
Sep 23, 2013
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Birth setting study signals significant risks in planned home birth
While the number of homebirths in the United States has grown over the last decade, researchers at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center have found that babies born at home are roughly 10 times as likely to be ...
Sep 18, 2013
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Some painkillers tied to certain birth defects in study
(HealthDay)—Women taking prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and Percocet early in pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth to babies with devastating neural tube defects such as spina bifida, a new study ...
Sep 11, 2013
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Childbirth risks not the same for all obese women
Obesity raises the chances of complications and medical interventions in childbirth. But a new study by Oxford University shows the risks are not the same for all obese women.
Sep 10, 2013
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Study sees no link between drinking during early pregnancy and birth woes
(HealthDay)—Drinking alcohol during and even beyond the first trimester of pregnancy doesn't seem to raise the risk of premature delivery, low birth weight or size, or high blood pressure complications for the mother, a ...
Sep 9, 2013
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Lung cancer drug could aid plight of ectopic pregnancy patients
Women with ectopic pregnancies could be spared surgery if they are treated with a lung cancer drug, a study suggests.
Sep 9, 2013
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Genetics
Trial aims to advance prenatal diagnosis of genetic defects
Reproductive genetics researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) are leading a multicenter prospective clinical study investigating the effects of chromosomal abnormalities (duplicative or missing material) ...
Aug 21, 2013
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Surgery
Giant 23-kilo tumor removed from woman's abdomen in Bulgaria
Bulgarian surgeons removed a giant tumour that weighed 23 kilogrammes (50.7 pounds) from a woman's abdomen on Monday, likening the curious case to something out of an old medical textbook.
Aug 19, 2013
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Obesity and induction in Irish, first-time mothers linked with caesarean rates, says study
(Medical Xpress)—The rate of emergency caesarean section in Irish mothers is twice that of Eastern European women who give birth in Ireland, according to a study from University College Dublin and the Economic and Social ...
Aug 16, 2013
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