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What people DO NOT know about contraception and pregnancy in USA ?

More than a decade has passed since the Advocates for Youth have sponsored study tours to countries such as France, Germany, and the Netherlands to know and understand why adolescents are safer and sexually healthier in European countries than in United States. The study tour had policy makers, professionals, youth and researchers in [...]

Argentina’s Fernandez sent home, never had cancer

The government announced just after Christmas that the recently re-elected leader had thyroid cancer.

The operation to remove the gland went well, but when it was later analyzed it turned out to have never contained cancerous cells, said spokesman Alfredo Scoccimaro.

“The original diagnosis has been modified,” he told a news conference. “The presence [...]

Heart patients prefer longevity over quality of life

When an elderly person’s chronic disease is impossible to cure, many doctors might assume that patient would chose to improve the quality of his or her remaining life rather than to extend it as is. Those doctors would be mistaken most of the time, according to a new study.

Swiss researchers who [...]