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Highlights from Harvard World Health News:
Fertility Clinic in U.S. Gets Green Light for Sex-Selection Trial
Ian Sample
(The Guardian, London, Oct. 27, 2005)
"A clinical trial into the effects of allowing couples to choose the sex of their babies has been given the go-ahead at a US fertility clinic. The controversial study was given the green light by an ethics committee after nine years of consultation. The purpose of the study is to find out how cultural notions, family values and gender issues feed into a couple's desire to choose the gender of their child."
Study Finds Meds Today Surprisingly Comparable to 2000 B.C.
William Mullen
(Chicago Tribune, Oct. 24, 2005)
"Studying medical texts inscribed in cuneiform, the first system of writing, Chicago researchers JoAnn Scurlock and Burton Andersen found the physicians of the earliest civilizations were delivering surprisingly sophisticated, knowledgeable and effective health care 2,000 years before Christ lived. In fact, citizens received treatment superior to what Americans got in George Washington's time, according to the researchers."
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Pakistan Quake Aid Said Not Enough as Disease Kills Survivors
(Agence France Presse, Oct. 27, 2005)
"Relief officials warned that world aid pledges for Pakistan's quake may be too late to save lives, while doctors said 22 people had already died of tetanus and one of measles."
Preparing for a Pandemic
W. Wayt Gibbs and Christine Soares
(Scientific American, Oct. 24, 2005)
"The most fundamental thing to understand about serious pandemic influenza is that, except at a molecular level, the disease bears little resemblance to the flu that we all get at some time."
Fertility Clinic in U.S. Gets Green Light for Sex-Selection Trial
Ian Sample
(The Guardian, London, Oct. 27, 2005)
"A clinical trial into the effects of allowing couples to choose the sex of their babies has been given the go-ahead at a US fertility clinic. The controversial study was given the green light by an ethics committee after nine years of consultation. The purpose of the study is to find out how cultural notions, family values and gender issues feed into a couple's desire to choose the gender of their child."
Study Finds Meds Today Surprisingly Comparable to 2000 B.C.
William Mullen
(Chicago Tribune, Oct. 24, 2005)
"Studying medical texts inscribed in cuneiform, the first system of writing, Chicago researchers JoAnn Scurlock and Burton Andersen found the physicians of the earliest civilizations were delivering surprisingly sophisticated, knowledgeable and effective health care 2,000 years before Christ lived. In fact, citizens received treatment superior to what Americans got in George Washington's time, according to the researchers."
(Free registration required.)
Pakistan Quake Aid Said Not Enough as Disease Kills Survivors
(Agence France Presse, Oct. 27, 2005)
"Relief officials warned that world aid pledges for Pakistan's quake may be too late to save lives, while doctors said 22 people had already died of tetanus and one of measles."
Preparing for a Pandemic
W. Wayt Gibbs and Christine Soares
(Scientific American, Oct. 24, 2005)
"The most fundamental thing to understand about serious pandemic influenza is that, except at a molecular level, the disease bears little resemblance to the flu that we all get at some time."
