HT: Drudge
The UK Daily Mail reports that a baby born at just 10 ounces and 25 weeks in Hanover, Germany, has now gone home with mom and dad, six months later at 5½ pounds.
Congratulations to the parents and to the University Clinic in Göttingen. In a city more famous for who died in it than [...]
AP reports:
In what is being called a “wrongful birth” case, a jury awarded more than $21 million to a couple who claimed a doctor misdiagnosed a severe birth defect in their son, leading them to have a second child with similar problems.
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Had the disorder been correctly diagnosed, a test would have indicated whether the couple’s [...]
ABC News reports female genital mutilation is on the rise in Britain despite the practice having been outlawed since 2003. I wasn’t surprised by that, but I was surprised by one paragraph:
It is practiced by Muslims and Christians alike, deeply rooted in the Nile Valley region and parts of sub-Saharan African, and is also done [...]
The New York Times reports that older women who have their embryos screened for viability actually decrease their chances of pregnancy, a study in France has found. It seems instead of culling the unviable, the testing harms the embryos.
“The way they performed this process tells us that they did not have a lot of expertise [...]
CNS News reports that House Representative Carolyn Malone (D-NY) and Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NH) have introduced the Access to Birth Control Act in their respective houses. The bill is not in Thomas yet.
When an employer fires pharmacists for not dispensing “Plan B,” that’s the employer’s prerogative. Now it seems that government wants to force pharmacists [...]
