By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES (@SusanDJames) July 25, 2013 Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born 35 years ago today, revolutionizing the field of reproductive medicine and giving infertile women hope that they could become mothers. Now, the procedure is so common that more than 5 million around the world have conceived babies through in vitro fertilization or IVF. Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital in Britain on … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2013
A Scientist Debunks The ‘Magic’ Of Vitamins And Supplements
by Jonathan Hamilton, July 23, 2013 6:26 AM, NPR A pediatrician who spent years defending childhood vaccines against the likes of actress/activist Jenny McCarthy has launched an assault on megavitamins and dietary supplements. "If you take large quantities of vitamin A, vtamin E, beta carotene [or] selenium you increase your risk of , risk of heart disease, and you could ," says , a researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Many … [Read more...]
Hormone-Replacement Therapy: Could Estrogen Have Saved 50,000 Lives?
Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin July 20, 2013 (TIME Magazine) For more than a decade, doctors have cautioned women about the risks associated with hormone-replacement therapy. But those warnings may have put one group of women at increased risk of dying early, according to the latest study. Researchers at Yale University say nearly 50,000 women may have died prematurely after they stopped taking hormone-replacement therapy (HRT) to treat … [Read more...]