Childless

Diagnosis of arthritis 5 years earlier in childless women compared to those with children

Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday 11 June 2009: Nulliparous women (those who have not given birth to children) are diagnosed with chronic arthritides (including ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) an average of 5.2 years before parous women (those who have given b...

States' Spending may Help Keep Childless Seniors Independent

Seniors who do not have children to help care for them are less likely to have to go into a nursing home if they live in a state that spends more on home- and community- based services, researchers have found. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago report the finding in the M...

Only about one of ten unemployed workers obtain COBRA coverage

...small firms that aren't required to offer COBRA, or are uninsured to begin with. Coverage options for low-income workers remain limited especially for childless adults because most lack a public coverage option. The authors say that policymakers should consider temporarily expanding Medicaid and SCHIP eligibil...

H.R. 2, Bipartisan Children's Health Bill, Will Provide Coverage to 11 Million Children

...P) Act.) Prioritizes children's coverage and phases out coverage of childless adults and parents. The bill phases out the coverage of childless adults and parents in SCHIP. Is fully paid-for -- with an increase i...

Economic Downturn Means Increased Demands on Budget-Challenged State Health Coverage Initiatives

... Fall 2008 Wisconsin Health Plan Analysis finds that Wisconsin will find it challenging to implement the expansion of its BadgerCare Plus program to childless adults, which received federal approval in October. The expansion could cost the state as much as $45 million a year. Likewise, the BadgerCare Plus pr...

New Report Analyzes How Children Fare in Candidates' Health Care Plans

...dopted. Therefore, the credit provides assistance for a significantly smaller share of health care costs for families with children than for childless households. -- The 19 million children with special health care needs currently insured though employer coverage may be barred from insurance d...

Opting out revolution a myth: Study shows steep employment gains for women, mothers

...l Review reveals that professional women's employment rates have continually pushed higher over time, and that the employment gap between mothers and childless women is shrinking. To determine the truth behind the opting out phenomenon described in mass media reports, sociologist Christine Percheski examin...

Significantly higher success rates with artificial insemination

... This release is also available in German . In future a new method could help some couples who are childless against their will. The microscopic procedure significantly improves the success rate of 'ICSI' (intracytoplasmic sperm injection). This was discover...

Fatherhood Tied to Higher Prostate Cancer Risk

...tudy looked at all men born in Denmark between 1935 and 1988. It found that childless men had a 17 percent lower incidence of prostate cancer than fathers did. ...hat report also found a 17 percent lower incidence of prostate cancer among childless men. In neither of the two studies did the gender of the children father...

Fatherhood linked to prostate cancer risk

...A new study from Danish researchers has found that childless men have a lower risk of developing prostate cance...remains controversial. Evidence has suggested that childless men may be at lower risk of prostate cancer than m...ospective, epidemiologic support for the view that childless men are somehow at lower risk of developing prosta...

Childless in Medical Dictionary

Surrogate

...r of the seven women had divorced and re-married at least once. ... being a surrogate mother an egg donor is the greatest gift you can give to a childless couple. ... Listen to Chari, a Circle surrogate , on the WBZ radio show ... Official Cape May County of New Jersey Web site - Information availab...

Childless in Biological News

Designer babies - what would you do for a 'healthy' baby?

...aracteristics. Parents see different physical, social and intellectual characteristics as desirable depending on the sex of the child. Older women and childless women are significantly more willing to "improve" the physical, social and intellectual characteristics of prospective children? (This can be explaine...

Childless in Biological Technology

PhRMA, Families USA Jointly Promote Measures to Ensure Quality, Affordable Healthcare Coverage

...ionwide Medicaid eligibility floor at 133 percent of the federal poverty level -- almost $24,400 in annual income for a family of three. In 43 states, childless adults are currently ineligible for Medicaid even if they are literally penniless. Second, we propose providing sliding-scale subsidies to modera...

Lifting federal limits on stem cell research would speed search for cures

... the destruction of very small days-old embryos. Those embryos come from fertilized eggs that would otherwise be discarded by fertility clinics, where childless couples go to undergo in vitro fertilization. Unless those eggs are implanted in the womb of a woman, they cannot grow to become a human being. For...

Dividing stem cells along partisan lines isnt a good experiment

... the destruction of very small days-old embryos. Those embryos come from fertilized eggs that would otherwise be discarded by fertility clinics, where childless couples undergo in vitro fertilization. Unless those eggs are implanted in the womb of a woman, however, they cannot grow to become a human being. ...

Why the Senate should ease stem cell restrictions

...donated embryos produced by in-vitro fertilization clinics, which have been commonplace in the United States for more than 25 years. Such clinics help childless couple conceive, but excess embryos are produced in the process. While a few are frozen and stored, most are discarded. Stem cells used for research c...