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A report that appears in the medical journal Pediatrics reveals that sex-changing treatments are becoming more prevalent among teens and children who believe they were born the wrong sex. The report goes on to say that these youngsters are getting support from parents and doctors alike.
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According to a report, the years-long belief that women are born with all their eggs is false.
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Providing for fundamental human needs to people who are close to death is complex and sophisticated, but ultimately it involves the integration of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual elements, according to a study1 published in PLoS Medicine by international researchers.
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The vast majority of patients with incurable lung or colorectal cancer talk with a physician about their options for care at the end of life, but often not until late in the course of their illness, according to a new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, published in a recent issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has attacked President Obama's healthcare law initiative, which intends to give free screenings for birth defects to all pregnant women by requiring insurers to cover the costs of the test.
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According to a new study, kidney failure patients who take part in an education program are more likely to get evaluated for a kidney transplant.
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A study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology suggests that getting a legal abortion is much safer than actually giving birth. Researchers found that women were about 14 times more likely to die during or after giving birth to a live baby than to die from complications of an abortion.
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IRB offices have evolved in the past 15 years. Early IRB offices often had limited support staff. But as the field of human subjects protection evolved, IRB offices' staffing needs increased, creating IRB office leadership roles and the need for more IRB coordinators and other support staff.
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Like many institutions, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC) uses audits of studies to find areas in human subjects protection that need improvement and to educate researchers to address them.
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IRB offices seeking to create a sustainable leadership role might need to re-organize, examining their current processes and culture, experts suggest.
