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Seizures in Children , Sensed By Dogs

...f seizure-sensitive dogs reported that licking may abort or even prevent their seizures. Some breeds of seizure-alerting canines include Golden Retriever, Standard Poodle, German Shepard, Rough Collie, Rottweiler, Cairn Terrier, and Great Pyrenees. About 40 percent of patients in the study reported seizu...

Female Foetus Can Survive More Stress

...ealthy embryos and foetuses and thus spontaneously abort the offspring that would have been otherwise carried to birth. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, researchers concluded aborting boys might be a way to maximize the odds of survival of the bloodline. According ...

NHS Trust Wants Abortion Mother's Case To Be Dismissed

...e woman who sued them for ￡250,000 over failure to abort the fetus of a twin//. Stacey Dow eventually gave birth to her daughter Jayde and sued the Perth Royal Infirmary for negligence and asked for maintenance for the girl. However, the Perth Sheriff Court was told that Ms Dow then aged 16 was given no...

Doctor Jailed For Abortion Racket In Haryana

... revealing the sex of a fetus and then agreeing to abort it if it was female.// This is the first time that any medical practitioner has been jailed for carrying out illegal fetus determination tests and abortions. The perpetrators were found out when government officials sent in three pregnant women as ...

NHRC Demands Report From Govt Of Rajasthan On Sex Determination Tests

... also alleged that 19 of the doctors had agreed to abort the fetus after sex determination. The media reports said that three of the 21 doctors found to be involved in conducting these tests were from the government hospital in Chittorgarh district of the state. --Edited IANS...

Pregnant HIV Positive Woman Forced To Abort Fetus On Her Own

...egnant HIV-positive woman in Kolkata was forced to abort her fetus on her own after hospital staff declined to help her after they came to know about her status. //The incident occurred last month in a state-run Kolkata hospital. Reuters quoted Roshni Mulani, a mother of a two-year-old child, as saying i...

Early Breast Cancer Screening may Prove Hazardous

Breast cancer screening has proven helpful to abort almost 17% of deaths among breast cancer patients. However researchers opine that such //screening unnecessarily exposes an individual to the hazards of radiation. NHS offers regular screening tests to rule of cancer, for women above the age of 50...

Portugal’s Citizens Vote to Legalize Abortio

...ildren, due to religious convictions. Women who abort can face up to 3 years prison term and those who aid them are likewise prosecuted. The issue has been raging for years in Portugal, whereas other ‘strongly catholic’ nations have since gone the secular path by allowing abortions. The move agains...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...ather than medical problems. NASA never has had to abort a mission because of health problems, though the Soviet Union had three such episodes. Some believe the U.S. space agency has not adequately prepared for the possibility of death during a mission.'I don't think they've been great at dealing with th...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...re is a real risk that some people would choose to abort babies of a certain gender." Michaela Aston of the pro-life charity LIFE said: "This test is very dangerous. It would inevitably lead to babies being aborted simply for not being the 'required' sex." She rejected the notion that the test would a...

Police Recover Remains of Fetuses from Haryana Maternity Home

...s. It is common in several parts of the country to abort female foetuses. Despite India banning use of technology to determine the sex of unborn fetuses and termination of pregnancies based on gender, unscrupulous medical practitioners still carry out this highly profitable, but unethical business. A...

Aggressive Family Planning Sparks Riots in China

...nce for male heirs, which has prompted families to abort female fetuses in hopes of getting boys....

Pregnant Irish Teenager Wins the Right to Abort

...g Catholic establishment by asserting her right to abort has got the nod from the Dublin High Court. She... demanding that she be allowed to go to Britain to abort her fourth month old brain-damaged fetus. The 17-year-old who cannot be named, known only as Miss ...

Irish Teenager Fights for the Right to Abort

... demanding that she be allowed to go to Britain to abort her fourth month old brain-damaged fetus. She co... who discover their baby has anencephaly decide to abort the fetus, even in late stages of pregnancy. Miss D believed that she should have the right to cho...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

...re is a real risk that some people would choose to abort babies of a certain gender." Michaela Aston of the pro-life charity LIFE said: "This test is very dangerous. It would inevitably lead to babies being aborted simply for not being the 'required' sex." She rejected the notion that the test would a...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...ather than medical problems. NASA never has had to abort a mission because of health problems, though the Soviet Union had three such episodes. Some believe the U.S. space agency has not adequately prepared for the possibility of death during a mission.'I don't think they've been great at dealing with th...

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