>Planned Parenthood in Waco, Texas, Memphis, TN and Williston, Vermont, and probably a town or city near you, will host a Free EC (Emergency Contraceptive) day next week. (Waco on Dec. 8, Memphis and Williston Dec. 8. More sites can be found by searching Google or Yahoo for “Free EC Days” – including information from … Continue reading
This month, the British Medical Journal (sorry, subscription only) has published a report on a randomized controlled study on enhanced sex ed that failed to reduce the numbers of pregnancies or abortions in teen girls. Essentially, the “programme” involves education for boys and girls 13 to 15 years old, including teaching them to obtain and … Continue reading
>This month, the British Medical Journal (sorry, subscription only) has published a report on a randomized controlled study on enhanced sex ed that failed to reduce the numbers of pregnancies or abortions in teen girls. Essentially, the “programme” involves education for boys and girls 13 to 15 years old, including teaching them to obtain and … Continue reading
The letter to the editors of the (UK, London) TimesOnLine one month ago from several physicians concerning the New Zealand report by New Zealand’s Fergusson on the increased risk between abortion and depression (that article is online in pdf, here – and that issue is their free sample issue, here) was hard to find. So, … Continue reading
>The letter to the editors of the (UK, London) TimesOnLine one month ago from several physicians concerning the New Zealand report by New Zealand’s Fergusson on the increased risk between abortion and depression (that article is online in pdf, here – and that issue is their free sample issue, here) was hard to find. So, … Continue reading
There have never been any controlled randomized trials on “Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge,” according to this review published in the British Medical Journal in December 2003. And yet, in the nearly 3 years since it was documented in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal that the evidence supporting the … Continue reading
The New York Times reports on “Beyond belief: Science, religion, reason and survival,” a symposium sponsored by the Science Network at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, which began to resemble the founding convention for a political party built on a single plank: in a world dangerously charged with ideology, science needs to take on … Continue reading
The New York Times reports on “Beyond belief: Science, religion, reason and survival,” a symposium sponsored by the Science Network at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, which began to resemble the founding convention for a political party built on a single plank: in a world dangerously charged with ideology, science needs to take on … Continue reading
There’s news about embryonic “master stem cells” for heart tissue, or embryonic stem cells that give rise to the 3 types of cells in the heart, which were found in mouse embryos. I wonder how many of the articles will mention non-embryonic human cardiac precursor cells from amniotic cells (this month) and umbilical cord stem … Continue reading
>There’s news about embryonic “master stem cells” for heart tissue, or embryonic stem cells that give rise to the 3 types of cells in the heart, which were found in mouse embryos. I wonder how many of the articles will mention non-embryonic human cardiac precursor cells from amniotic cells (this month) and umbilical cord stem … Continue reading