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‘Lie still’ for pregnancy boost

Women undergoing fertility treatment with artificial insemination may boost their chances of pregnancy if they lie still afterwards, say researchers.

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‘Lie still’ for pregnancy boost

Women undergoing fertility treatment with artificial insemination may boost their chances of pregnancy if they lie still afterwards, say researchers.

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‘Aura’ migraines a stroke risk

Young women who have migraines with auras are twice as likely to have a stroke, researchers say.

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Women have ’same heart symptoms’

It is a myth that women have different heart attack symptoms from men, according to Canadian researchers.

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Amid problems, U.S. scrambles to parcel out H1N1 vaccine

The federal government’s unprecedented campaign to protect the nation against the swine flu pandemic has gotten off to a sputtering start, frustrating parents, pregnant women and others anxious to get immunized against the new virus.

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Athletic cases show line between male and female can be hazy

What’s the difference between a man and a woman? The question seems too silly to be science: Its answer is so obvious that every stand-up comic has a different way of saying it. (Even the gender jokes break down by gender: Male comics say women go to the bathroom in packs.

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Profile of Nobel Prize Winner Carol Greider, a Johns Hopkins Molecular Biologist

Partway through an interview, Carol Greider’s cellphone emits the special ring she has set to indicate the caller is one of her two children. Greider, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins who this year became one of only 10 women to win the Nobel Prize in medicine, is at her phone in a split se…

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Swine Flu Deaths Among Youths Rise as Epidemic Spreads

The number of children who have died from swine flu has jumped sharply as the virus continues to spread widely around the United States, striking youngsters, teenagers, young adults and pregnant women unusually often, federal officials said Friday.

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CDC Reports 28 Swine Flu Deaths Among Pregnant Women

In a reminder that the new strain of H1N1 influenza may not be as benign as originally thought, federal health officials reported Thursday that 100 pregnant women infected with the virus were hospitalized in intensive care units in the first four months of the outbreak, and 28 have died.

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Scientists Puzzle Over Minor Success of AIDS Vaccine

An experiment in Thailand involving more than 16,000 men and women has demonstrated for the first time a small but measurable protective effect of an AIDS vaccine.

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