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Shaken Baby Syndrome Debate: Chasm Yawns Wide

While theories about infant head injury evolve, new cases offer new twists and old cases linger in the appeals courts.

Daily Briefing: Emergency Room Use Rises as Americans Cut Back on Prescriptions, Doctor Visits

Abortion politics, taxing soft-drinks, painkiller abuse, counterfeit drugs and more from our Daily Briefing.

At Project Unbreakable, child sex-abuse survivors reveal abusers' words

Project Unbreakable is a powerful combination of social media, photography and storytelling. But Grace Brown calls it "art therapy" for those who need to heal.

IUDs to Prevent HIV in Kenya?

An American nonprofit is offering HIV-positive Kenyan women $40 to use IUDs as long-term birth control—and women are taking them up on it. Is this the right way to prevent the transmission of HIV to children?

Flushing Forests

In an effort to promote awareness of the relationship between healthy forests, healthy people and healthy economies, The UN has declared 2011 the International Year of Forests. One overlooked reality links healthy forests, healthy people and improved global sanitation: the production and use of toilet paper, from forest to flush.

 

Wakefield's Wake Part 2: Passionate parents of autistic children can be tricky sources

Anyone who has written about a topic as emotional as autism knows that patients and their families can be both invaluable and unreliable.

Why The Poor Pay Virtually No Attention to Those 'Quit Smoking' Campaigns

Years ago, while working on a street outreach program feeding the homeless, I observed that virtually every one of our clients was a smoker. (In fact, researchers now estimate that about 94% of the North American homeless population smoke).

Doctors Behaving Badly: Obstetrics pioneers may have killed for science

The doctors responsible for the safe delivery of millions of babies over the past two and a half centuries may have been serial killers.

Some of the more cynical followers of Doctors Behaving Badly may not find this hard to believe, but it has caused quite a stir in Britain, where William Hunter and William Smellie created the science underlying modern day obstetrics. As Denis Campbell in the London Observer notes:

Autism, Vaccines and Geography

You’ve probably heard this week about the British medical journal Lancet retracting a controversial 1998 study suggesting that the measles/mumps/rubella vaccination could increase the risk of children developing autism.

As The Los Angeles Times reports, the study led to a drop in vaccinations in Britain and the United States and an increase in measles.

HIV/AIDS couple start new life

From Darhoon Menghwar, of the Daily Ibrat, a Sindhi newspaper in Hyderabad, Sindh province, Pakistan, who attended a Thomson Reuters Foundation “Reporting HIV/AIDS” course in Bangkok in 2008

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