Health
8 drug-free tips to fight spring allergies
Spring allergies can be brutal, and many—but by no means all—sufferers reach for synthetic medications to combat their symptoms.
Apr 10, 2023
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News tagged with sterilization
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Officials: Person dies after brain-eating amoeba infection
A person in southwest Florida has died after being infected with an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba, health officials said.
Mar 4, 2023
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Medical research
Terminal sterilization of oligonucleotide drug products
A new report, coauthored by several major pharmaceutical companies, reviews the current state of sterile oligonucleotide drug product processing. The article, which provides recommendations to aid in the evaluation and development ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Survivors of Utah's eugenic sterilization program still alive in 2023
At least 830 men, women and children were coercively sterilized in Utah, approximately 54 of whom may still be alive. They were victims of a sterilization program that lasted for fifty years in the state and targeted people ...
Feb 15, 2023
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Health communication expert unpacks how a legacy of forced sterilization shapes doctor-patient conversations today
Sterilization is a safe and effective form of permanent birth control used by more than 220 million couples around the world. Despite its prevalence, however, patients seeking sterilization from their doctors often face a ...
Dec 12, 2022
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Medical research
New research provides theory on why women stopped menstruating upon arrival at Nazi death camps
The horrific toll of the Holocaust, with its crimes against humanity amid the state-sponsored mass murder campaign that killed six million Jews and millions of others during World War II, has been scrutinized in numerous ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Permanent birth control methods for women have up to 6% failure rates
Hysteroscopic sterilization, a non-incisional procedure, has been found to be as effective as minimally invasive laparoscopic sterilization in preventing pregnancy, but both methods had higher than expected failure rates, ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Tubal ligation half as likely for moms who deliver at Catholic hospitals
Women who deliver babies at Catholic hospitals are about half as likely to have undergone a sterilization procedure to prevent unwanted pregnancies after the birth as those who delivered elsewhere, a new study has found.
Feb 16, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Researchers evaluate safety of popular method of sterilization
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002 approved hysteroscopic sterilization, a less invasive type of permanent contraception branded as Essure, it was considered a turning point in birth control. But then ...
Feb 4, 2022
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Pregnancy experts call for Medicaid policy change
Postpartum sterilization is a safe and effective form of contraception. It can be performed immediately after birth without increasing the length of stay in the hospital for new mothers. Unfortunately, women enrolled in Medicaid ...
Nov 14, 2021
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