| Date: May 21, 2012
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may have a tougher time controlling their asthma, a new study suggests.
Date: May 18, 2012
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Antibiotics are still better than probiotics at preventing urinary tract infections, a new study concludes - but at a cost of some antibiotic resistance.
Date: May 18, 2012
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite recommendations that pregnant women have tests for certain sexually transmitted diseases, many may not be getting them, a new study suggests.
Date: May 18, 2012
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's top health official on Friday took the debate over whether healthcare coverage should include contraceptives to the campus of a Catholic university that has been deeply divided over the administration's policy.
Date: May 18, 2012
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three years after a group of women with stress urinary incontinence were treated with transobturator tension-free vaginal tape (TO-TVT), roughly three-quarters felt the treatment was a success, with no significant differences between the inside-out (TVT-O) and outside-in (TOT) surgical approaches.
Date: May 18, 2012
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although amniotic fluid embolism is rarely encountered, it has a high fatality rate, and a new study by Canadian researchers sheds light on the problem.
Date: May 18, 2012
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have more than double the risk of transfusion-induced red cell alloimmunization compared to their peers with noninflammatory diseases, a study from Austria indicates.
Date: May 17, 2012
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. prisons and other facilities where residents are forcibly confined must put in place standards to prevent thousands of incidents of sexual abuse every year, the White House and U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
Date: May 17, 2012
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Italian investigators say metformin may lower the levels of Ki-67, a breast cancer tumor marker, in women with insulin resistance.
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