Female genital mutilation: entrenched ritual with devastating effects
Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation.
Jul 15, 2024
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Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation.
Jul 15, 2024
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A multi-institutional study found that 1 in 6 youths fill an opioid prescription prior to surgery, and 3% of patients were still filling opioid prescriptions three to six months after surgery, indicating persistent opioid ...
Jul 11, 2024
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New research led by UCLA Health has found a drug that treats insomnia works to prevent the addictive effects of the morphine opioids in mice while still providing effective pain relief.
Jul 9, 2024
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Researchers have presented the latest findings from a clinical trial aimed at discovering a cure for sickle cell disease, a painful genetic blood disorder with limited treatment options.
Jun 15, 2024
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There are various types of widow spiders, including black, red, and brown varieties in North and South America, the Australian redback spider, and several button spider species that inhabit South Africa. In Europe, Latrodectus ...
Jun 12, 2024
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Australian and Chinese researchers have jointly discovered a genetic key to the development of the devastating autoimmune condition childhood lupus.
Jun 3, 2024
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Every year, several thousand cancer patients in Sweden risk receiving too little pain relief in the end of life, as the health care system fails to detect that the patients are suffering from pain. When patients cannot verbalize ...
Jun 3, 2024
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A large, linked data study has detailed the scale of prescription opioid use—such as oxycodone, morphine, or tramadol—after a hospital or emergency department (ED) visit, while giving insight into how often people then ...
May 29, 2024
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Hip replacement is a major, arduous elective surgery, and rehabilitation afterwards takes time, according to an expert from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
May 21, 2024
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Of all the body's amazing abilities, perhaps one of the strangest is its capacity to make stones.
May 20, 2024
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