Month: May 2013

15-year-old Skylar Marion’s organs were donated to four people, including his friend Kyle.        

Pregnant women receive a lot of unsolicited nutrition advice.        

Pregnant women receive a lot of unsolicited nutrition advice.        

Marlene Hodge and others allege a dorm supervisor sexually abused deaf girls as young as 4 during the 60s and 70s at Fanwood deaf school in White Plains, N.Y.        

Marlene Hodge and others allege a dorm supervisor sexually abused deaf girls as young as 4 during the 60s and 70s at Fanwood deaf school in White Plains, N.Y.        

Pregnant women receive a lot of unsolicited nutrition advice.        

By Dave Warner PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – A Philadelphia jury began its sixth day of deliberations on Tuesday in the murder trial of a doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during late-term abortions at a clinic serving low-income women. Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women’s Medical Society Clinic, could face the death penalty if convicted by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia. The seven-woman, five-man jury heard five weeks of testimony before starting deliberations a week ago on Tuesday. …

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People with advanced cancer tend to get more aggressive care at the end of life and spend more time in the intensive care unit if they receive spiritual support from their religious communities, according to a new study. The report’s lead researcher said that finding was “quite the opposite” of what her team was expecting – in part because of evidence that spiritual support coming from within a patient’s medical team leads to less aggressive care and more use of hospice. …

Pregnant women receive a lot of unsolicited nutrition advice.        

DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Baxter International Inc. says that a blood product it was testing failed to slow mental decline or to preserve physical function in a major study of 390 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.

Can Doctors Diagnose MS from Blood?

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South African competition authorities will launch an investigation into the private healthcare industry, where early evidence showed high prices and market distortions, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Tuesday. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is working on a long-term nationwide health insurance plan, but the $28 billion scheme will not be in place until 2025. Until then, the ANC wants to reduce the cost of healthcare for the millions of South Africans who cannot afford to go private, Patel said. …