OBGYN & Reproduction Week articles from October 2003

OBGYN & Reproduction Week archives from October 2003

Study shows overweight, obesity linked to increased cancer risk.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study by researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) suggests being overweight could double a woman's risk of developing one type of cervical cancer, known as cervical adenocarcinoma....

Doctors need to know alcohol, pregnancy don't mix.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some healthcare professionals believe that women who are pregnant can enjoy an occasional glass of wine with no ill effects to their unborn babies. They're mistaken, and an awareness campaign...

Family history of early death from heart disease increases risk of LBW babies.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women with a family history of early death from coronary artery disease may be at increased risk of having an underweight baby, suggests research in the journal Heart. Low birthweight is itself a...

Physical burden is the major cause of slower movement during pregnancy.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physical burden is the major cause of slower movement during pregnancy. "Pregnancy is associated with reduced locomotor performance in many types of animals, but we do not know to what degree this...

Dibutyltin dichloride affects uterine function and causes early embryo loss.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dibutyltin dichloride affects uterine function and causes early embryo loss. "In our previous study, dibutyltin dichloride (DBTCl) caused preimplantation embryonic loss and postimplantation...

Testosterone patch improves sexual desire in women whose ovaries were removed.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a Phase II efficacy and safety study, treatment with a transdermal testosterone patch significantly increased sexual desire and sexual activity in women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD)...

Vaginal natamycin treatment during pregnancy does not harm the fetus.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaginal natamycin treatment during pregnancy does not harm the fetus. "The aim of this study was to investigate the teratogenicity of vaginal natamycin treatment during pregnancy, because the data...

Positive results of preclinical trials of AZ-CINN 310 released.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CryoLife, Inc.'s (CRY), subsidiary, Aurazyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc., announced that in preclinical animal trials AZ-CINN-310 demonstrated accelerated destruction of breast cancer tumor cells at the site...

Continuous labor support offers benefits to mothers, babies.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new comprehensive study describing the experiences of nearly 13,000 women has found that women who receive supportive care from a companion throughout labor are more likely than women without such...

Engineered antibodies may expedite development of therapeutic oncology agents.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has extended and expanded its collaborative research agreement with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, covering...

Babies of diabetic mothers have fivefold increase in structural heart defects.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Babies born to mothers with diabetes are five times as likely to have structural heart defects as other babies, suggests a new study. Structural abnormalities of the heart are the most common kind...

FDA approves Barr's SEASONALE, an extended-cycle oral contraceptive.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Barr Laboratories, Inc., (BRL) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's SEASONALE (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol) 0.15 mg/0.03 mg tablets, an...

Unbalanced maternal diets affect offspring stress hormone later on.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Unbalanced maternal diets affect offspring stress hormone later on. "Recent studies have linked maternal consumption of an unbalanced high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet in late pregnancy with...

Prophylactic single-dose nevirapine linked to low rate of HIV V106M mutations.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A low rate of HIV V106M mutations - usually associated with efavirenz treatment - has been observed in women treated with single-dose nevirapine as vertical transmission prophylaxis. "Nevirapine...

Hemostatic risk factors predict thrombosis during pregnancy and the puerperium.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hemostatic risk factors predict thrombosis during pregnancy and the puerperium. "In a retrospective study of 190 women with a first history of venous thromboembolism during pregnancy and the....

Pregnant patients with chronic renal insufficiency can have good outcome.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pregnancy in chronic renal insufficiency patients is possible, outcome is good if carefully managed, but is a risk. "This article attempts to assess the nature, severity and management of the risks...

Rights to Loestrin oral contraceptive obtained.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Barr Laboratories, Inc., (BRL) and Galen Holdings PLC announced that they have signed a letter of intent for Barr to acquire from Galen the exclusive rights in the United States and Canada for Loestrin...

Rare conjoined twins in triplet pregnancies present management challenges.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rare conjoined twins in triplet pregnancies present management challenges. "We report two cases of conjoined twins complicating a triplet pregnancy diagnosed by two-dimensional ultrasound in the...

Progesterone may regulate calbindin-D-9k mRNA expression during late pregnancy.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Progesterone may regulate calbindin-D-9k mRNA expression during late pregnancy. "Calbindin-D-9k (CaBP-9k) is a cytosolic calcium binding protein mainly expressed in the duodenum, placenta and...

Massachusetts plan will cover pregnant women.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- On September 15, 2003, Massachusetts became the fifth state to get federal approval to extend state healthcare insurance to pregnant women and their unborn children. Health and Human Services...

Overview of therapeutics for preterm labor provided.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An overview of current and emerging therapeutics has been published in a recent issue of Current Medicinal Chemistry. "Preterm labor is a major cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity. However,...

Prenatal screening impacts cystic fibrosis prevalence in Brittany, France.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Prenatal screening impacts cystic fibrosis prevalence in Brittany, France. "Taking into account the situation of Brittany, a region of western France where cystic fibrosis (CF) is common and where a...

Novel strategy for beta-globin gene mutation analysis improves PGD.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) technique enables the birth of healthy children to couples with a high risk of thalassemia-afflicted offspring. PGD "offers couples at risk for...

IntegraMed America reaches agreement with North Carolina fertility center.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IntegraMed America, Inc., (INMD) announced that it has signed a FertilityPartner agreement to supply a complete range of business, marketing, and facility services to the Charlotte, North Carolina-based...

High doses of the COX-2 inhibitor DuP-697 changes rodent fetal development.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High doses of the COX-2 inhibitor DuP-697 changes rodent fetal development. "DuP-697 (5-bromo-2-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-[4-(methylsulfonyl)phenyl]-thiophene), like celecoxib and rofecoxib, is a vicinal...

Neural signals sent to the CNS from the ovaries seem to dictate ovarian function.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neural signals sent to the CNS from the ovaries seem to dictate ovarian function. "Evidence that ovarian innervation plays a role in the regulation of ovarian functions has been widely reported. The...

New methods detect the gene for spinal muscular atrophy before implantation.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New methods detect the gene for spinal muscular atrophy before implantation. "The main difficulty in developing a molecular diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) resides in the specific genomic...

Thrombin upregulates ICAM-1 in human monocytes, THP-1 cells, and in pregnancy.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Thrombin upregulates ICAM-1 in human monocytes, THP-1 cells, and in pregnancy. "Monocytes play a pivotal role in both the inflammatory and coagulation responses, which may be mediated through a...

Thyroid antibodies increase risk of miscarriage.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women who test positive for thyroid antibodies prior to receiving fertility treatment may be at an increased risk for miscarriage, according to new research published in the Journal of Clinical...

Rodent fetuses demonstrate congenital defects after maternal MBeP exposure.
October 6, 2003... 2003 OCT 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rodent fetuses demonstrate congenital defects after maternal MBeP exposure. "The objective of this study was to determine the adverse effects of monobenzyl phthalate (MBeP), a major metabolite of...

Antenatal management of monoamniotic twins calls for balanced risk taking.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antenatal management of monoamniotic twins calls for balanced risk taking. According to a study from England, "monoamniotic twinning is a rare event with an incidence of 1% of all monozygotic twins...

Researchers urge caution over using ginseng in early pregnancy.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers in Hong Kong have warned that women should be cautious about using the herbal remedy ginseng in the early stages of pregnancy. They have found evidence that ginsenoside Rb1, one of the...

Maternal folic acid intake linked to decrease in deadly childhood cancer.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A research team at The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) and the University of Toronto (U of T) has shown that folic acid food fortification has resulted in a 60% reduction in the incidence of...

HIV testing by obstetrics staff during labor & delivery is fast, accurate.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Having obstetric staff perform rapid HIV testing on women while they are in labor provides accurate results much faster than sending testing specimens to the on-site hospital laboratory, according to a...

Reproductive health care likely to suffer as states cut coverage for the poor.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- During the current economic slump, when more and more Americans are relying on publicly funded programs for such essential services as reproductive health care, states are cutting back on health...

Growth-stunting hormones impair fertility.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study from Australia indicates that girls who are given hormones to prevent them growing too tall have fertility problems as adults, and many are intensely unhappy about the treatment they received...

Medicaid funding granted in Indiana for serious pregnancy risk cases.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- On September 24, 2003, the Indiana Supreme Court, in a 3-2 vote, expanded the state's Medicaid coverage for a low-income woman's abortion to include cases when the pregnancy poses a serious and...

Women with complications also need health information, contraceptive services.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Each year, an estimated 20 million women worldwide have illegally induced abortions, which are often incomplete, unsafe, and potentially life-threatening, and millions more have incomplete spontaneous...

Most women's accounts of smoking during pregnancy are accurate.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Most women's accounts of smoking during pregnancy are accurate. According to recent research published in the journal Twin Research, "retrospective assessment of maternal smoking or substance use...

Males with sexual dysfunction in multiple sclerosis have lower testosterone.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Inflammatory cytokines suppress testosterone production, but not estrogen, in sexually dysfunctional multiple sclerosis patients and an autoimmune encephalomyelitis model. "The ability of sex...

Fetal-maternal transfer of cell-free DNA characterized.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The fetal-maternal transfer of cell-free DNA has been characterized. "To clarify the origin of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma," scientists in Japan "analyzed bidirectional transfer of...

The cytochrome P450 system plays a key role in early vessel growth.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The cytochrome P450 system plays a key role in early vessel growth. According to published research from Scotland, "the cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenase system catalyzes the metabolism of...

Umbilical cord blood shows link between lead shot use and lead levels in Inuit.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An examination of umbilical cord blood from Inuit newborns has revealed a link between lead shot use and lead levels. According to published research from Canada, "Analyses completed on samples...

Finnish immigration to Sweden favors perinatal outcomes.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Finnish immigration to Sweden favors perinatal outcomes. According to a study from Finland, "several studies have reported poorer infant outcome among immigrants, but contrary evidence also...

Liquid flow has a cooling effect on ultrasound-induced heating in study models.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Liquid flow has a cooling effect on ultrasound-induced heating in study models. "There is a need to investigate the thermal effects of diagnostic ultrasound (US) to assist the development of...

Serum C-reactive protein related to obesity in pregnant women.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The serum levels of C-reactive protein were related to obesity in pregnant women. "Acute-phase biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and IL-6 have emerged as predictors of incident type 2...

Early antiretroviral treatment helps prevent vertical HIV transmission.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Early antiretroviral treatment helps prevent vertical HIV transmission. In a recent study from Brazil, "A cohort of 297 HIV-infected pregnant women was followed from January 1996 to December 2001."...

Reducing risk of congenital heart defects by vitamins debated.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Can vitamin supplementation reduce the risk of congenital heart defects? A team of researchers have published a review of the data in a recent issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A....

International body calls for ban on reproductive but not therapeutic cloning.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More than 60 science academies from every continent in the world have called on the United Nations to adopt a ban on human reproductive cloning. The statement was issued by the InterAcademy Panel...

Obstetrical problems aren't linked to schizophrenia in the Caribbean population.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Obstetrical problems aren't linked to schizophrenia in the Caribbean population. According to published research from Trinid & Tobago, "it has been shown that an excess of pregnancy and birth...

More screening would detect postpartum depression risk among Hispanic women.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More screening would detect postpartum depression risk among Hispanic women. "This longitudinal study examined depression symptoms among pregnant, low-income, urban Latinas, primarily Puerto Ricans...

Bone loss occurs rapidly near the end of pregnancy.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Bone loss occurs rapidly near the end of pregnancy. According to published research from Italy, "Areal bone mineral density (BMD, g/cm[superscript]2) was measured for the total body, lumbar spine...

Childbearing decisions by single women are shaped by a variety of factors.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Childbearing decisions by single women are shaped by a variety of factors. "This article explores the sources of authoritative knowledge that shaped single, white, middle-class women's...

High androgen exposure while in utero precipitates more abdominal fat in men.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High androgen exposure while in utero precipitates more abdominal fat in men. "We present results from 42 gay men who completed a survey including self-measurement of waist circumference, height,...

Generic Loestrin Fe 1/20 and 1.5/30 tablets approved.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Barr Laboratories, Inc., (BRL) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its applications to manufacture and market generic versions of Galen's Loestrin Fe 1/20 and 1.5/30...

Hyperbaric bupivacaine and intrathecal fentanyl prolong labor analgesia.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hyperbaric bupivacaine and intrathecal fentanyl prolong labor analgesia. "We investigated the effect of sequential administration of intrathecal (IT) hyperbaric bupivacaine (after the initial...

Propofol half-life in fetuses is long after transplacental transfer.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Propofol half-life in fetuses is long after transplacental transfer. "Propofol is an injectable anesthetic that is currently used both in veterinary and human medicine for the induction and...

Severely preeclamptic patients have less hypotension during spinal anesthesia.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Severely preeclamptic patients have less hypotension during spinal anesthesia. "In this prospective cohort study, we compared the incidence and severity of spinal anesthesia (SA)-associated...

Macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1 is not an immune regulator in pregnancy.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Macrophage inhibitory cytokine 1 found in fetal membranes and amniotic fluid and is not altered by any type of pregnancy outcome or complication. "The placenta and fetal membranes are the site of...

Pulmonary glial heterotopia may occur by aspiration of glial cells from amnion.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Brain heterotopia in the lungs of newborns is fatal, and may be related to aspiration of glial cells from abnormal amniotic fluid or abnormal neural crest migration. According to recent research...

Population-specific data gives a better indication of Jamaican fetal growth.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Population-specific growth curves give a better indication of Jamaican fetal growth. "The objective of this study was to develop fetal growth curves and percentile growth charts for a Jamaican...

Giving birth a long distance from home complicates matters.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Giving birth a long distance from home complicates matters. "The present paper reports a retrospective cohort of preterm infants admitted to our hospital who delivered outside the normal...

Perinatal condition dictates whether premature infants are fed breast milk.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Perinatal condition dictates whether premature infants are fed breast milk. "The majority of epidemiological studies of breast feeding have been conducted in healthy, fullterm infant samples....

Birth control pills reduce plasma levels of the drug lamotrigine.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Birth control pills reduce plasma levels of the drug lamotrigine. "The mean steady-state plasma concentration of lamotrigine (LTG) was 13 micro M/L in 22 women taking LTG in combination with oral...

Nonmedical sex selection unlikely to skew gender balance in Germany, U.K.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Allowing sex selection for social reasons would be highly unlikely to skew the gender balance, at least in Germany and the U.K., study results show. According to new research published in the...

Prospective parents in Italy need greater access to genetic counseling.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Prospective parents in Italy need greater access to genetic counseling. According to a study from Italy, "congenital malformations (CM) affect 2-3% of all births, the cause of which, when known, is...

Recurrent empty follicle syndrome leads to negative ovarian retrieval.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Recurrent empty follicle syndrome leads to negative ovarian retrieval. "We report a case of a recurrent empty follicle syndrome. The patient was admitted to our intracytoplasmic injection program...

Repression of BMP-15 and GDF-9 mediates gamete regulation of female fertility.
October 13, 2003... 2003 OCT 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GCNF-dependent repression of BMP-15 and GDF-9 mediates gamete regulation of female fertility. "To determine the function of germ cell nuclear factor (GCNF) in female reproduction, we generated an...

Placental Plasmodium falciparum infection alters neonatal immune responses.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Placental Plasmodium falciparum infection alters neonatal immune responses. In a recent study from Gambia, "The effects of exposure to placental malaria infection on newborn immunological...

Better prenatal screening practices needed, especially among underserved women.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although healthcare providers have a high compliance rate with long-standing prenatal screening recommendations for hepatitis B, syphilis, and rubella, improvements in prenatal testing and the delivery...

Drug abuse in the pregnant female creates a risk for peripartum complications.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Drug abuse in the pregnant female creates a risk for peripartum complications. According to recent research from the United States, "drug abuse has crossed geographic, economic and social borders,...

Gene mutations may prevent sperm from acting normally.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR), which are responsible for the lung problems seen in cystic fibrosis patients, may also stop sperm from working normally. This may...

Carrageenan formulation prevents macrophage trafficking from vagina.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A carrageenan formulation prevents macrophage trafficking from the vagina, and may help prevent the spread of HIV. "Considerable evidence suggests that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected...

Pregnancy is not a contraindication for lipoprotein apheresis.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pregnancy is not a contraindication for lipoprotein apheresis. "Lipoprotein apheresis is an effective treatment for severe disorders of lipid metabolism. It is the only life prolonging therapy for...

Manual, low-tech method for second trimester abortions found safe and effective.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A hand-held vacuum aspiration device works as well as a more expensive electrical one for ending second-trimester pregnancies, according to results of a study by Johns Hopkins obstetricians published...

Michigan bill would ban certain late-term procedures.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Michigan state Legislature on September 30, 2003, approved a bill that would ban certain late-term abortions by defining the moment of birth as being when any part of the fetus is expelled from a...

Study says parents are key to pregnancy desire among black teens.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Half of 170 black teenage girls attending a metropolitan prenatal clinic in the U.S. indicated that their pregnancies were unplanned and unwanted, according to a new study in the American Journal of...

New Web site helps expand emergency contraception access.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Pharmacy Access Partnership announced the launch of a new Web site that promotes communication and the leveraging of resources to improve how women access emergency contraception (EC). ...

Drive to extend rape-victim contraception policy in U.S. slows.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New York is poised to become the fourth state to require hospitals to offer emergency contraception to rape victims, but a campaign to extend the policy nationwide faces tough opposition. ...

North Carolina approves sterilization compensation.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Survivors from among the thousands of North Carolina residents who were involuntarily sterilized by the state over 5 decades will be compensated in the form of heath care and education. Gov. Mike...

Progress has been made in new noninvasive prenatal diagnosis techniques.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Progress has been made in new noninvasive prenatal diagnosis techniques. "Progress in our understanding of the molecular basis of heritable diseases, through identification of specific mutations,...

Some HIV phenotypes preferentially transmitted through breast milk.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some HIV phenotypes are preferentially transmitted through breast milk. "To decipher the mechanisms involved in oral transmission of human immunodeficiency virus/simian immunodeficiency virus...

Sexual pleasure improves after procedure.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Many women are concerned that having a hysterectomy may affect their sexual attractiveness, but a study in the October 2, 2003, issue of the British Medical Journal found that sexual pleasure improves...

Contraceptive pills can raise plasminogen in women with hypoplasminogenemia.
October 20, 2003... 2003 OCT 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Oral contraceptives can raise the levels of plasminogen in women with congenital hypoplasminogenemia, as was found in patients with ligneous conjunctivitis. "Severe type I plasminogen deficiency...