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...Currently a few newspapers, most notably the Wall Street Journal, charge for their online editions by requiring a monthly subscription. When Rupert Murdoch acquired the Journal, he ruminated publicly about dropping the fee. But Murdoch is, above all, a smart businessman. He took a look at the economics and decided it was lunacy to forgo the revenue - and that was even before the online ad market began contracting. Now his move looks really smart. Paid subscriptions for the Journal's website were up more than 7% in a very gloomy 2008. Plus, he spooked the New York Times into dropping...
...success rates have increased, the average number of embryos transferred has gone down, from 3.9 in 1996 to 2.4 in 2005. Single-embryo transfers are now recommended in many cases; generally, the younger the patient, the likelier it is that an embryo will implant. A recent article in the journal Fertility and Sterility even suggested recasting how fertility clinics view outcomes: a singleton birth should be considered a success, triplets a failure...
...health problems are exacerbated by a parent's religious beliefs because "the system can only kick in if people become aware that a sick child is not getting care," says Dr. Sara Sinal who co-authored a July 2008 article on religion-based medical neglect in Southern Medical Journal. "It is suspected that many deaths go unreported and unrecognized, particularly in closed communities." Former Christian Scientist Rita Swan, executive director of the nonprofit Children's Health Care Is A Legal Duty, estimates that since the 1980s 300 children have died of "religion-based medical neglect" in the United States. Shawn...
...original version of this article reported that the new study on sustainable fishing appeared in the journal Science. It appeared in Nature...
...finding is a contentious one. The authors of the new paper, which appears in the Feb. 5 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the rate of breast cancer in postmenopausal women fell just two years after they stopped hormone therapy and continued to decline yearly. In addition, researchers found that women taking supplemental estrogen and progestin had doubled their risk of breast cancer after five years, compared with women not taking...