Harvard World Health News - Single fathers, eye infections, sex ratios, and breast implants

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Harvard World Health News Highlights:

Study Takes a Jab at Single Dads
Bob Condor (The Seattle Post Intelligencer, August 5, 2007)
“A newly published study by a Harvard researcher finds that children raised by single fathers are less likely to visit the doctor than kids living with single moms or both parents...What makes this study more illuminating is that Kathleen Ziol-Guest and colleagues discovered that single fatherhood itself was the decisive factor for lacking medical care among children, no matter how much money the dad makes or even if the family is insured.”

Eye Infections From Solution Continuing to Harm Users
Barnaby J. Feder (The New York Times, August 3, 2007)
“More than a fourth of the contact lens users who suffered serious eye infections linked to Advanced Medical Optics’ recalled Complete MoisturePlus lens cleaner have required corneal transplants, according to an update on the outbreak released yesterday by federal health care authorities…The recall by Advanced Medical stemmed from MoisturePlus’s apparent inability, for reasons that are not yet clear, to adequately protect some soft lens users from a different infectious microbe called acanthamoeba.” Free registration required.

Carnal Knowledge: Boys' Birthrate Advantage is Slipping
Faye Flam (The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 6, 2007)
“Most expectant parents figure their chances of having a baby boy vs. a baby girl are 50-50, but that's actually not the case…Now, some scientists are raising an alarm. Pollution and hormone-scrambling chemicals that are ubiquitous in household products, they say, are driving a trend toward fewer male births in the United States and Japan.” Free registration required.

Breast Implants Linked to Suicide Risk
Denise Gellene (The Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2007)
“Women who receive implants for breast enhancement are three times more likely to commit suicide, according to a new report that offered a sobering view of an increasingly popular surgery…The report in the Annals of Plastic Surgery's August issue was the most recent to detect a higher suicide rate among women who had their breasts enlarged, providing a gloomy counterpoint to studies that showed women felt better about themselves after getting implants.” Free registration required.

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Re: they're just like us!

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The whole framing of Venus Envy is how we went from an actress getting a nose job in the 1940s and people criticizing her to people criticizing Barbara Streisand for not getting one. Or, even if they don't criticize her making comments like "it's nice that ugly girls can still be famous."