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...world standards, the proposed legislation is mild. It would give women equal rights to inherit property and divorce and, in certain circumstances, the right to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Abortion is currently a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in jail: some 80 women are behind bars. Most of them probably just had miscarriages, says Uprety. They were turned in by neighbors or relatives to settle a grudge or to grab property. For lawyer and women's rights activist Sapna Pradhan Malla, however, the struggle is not just about abortion or property rights. "It's a fight...
Advances in technology cause many to hold out in hopes of getting more for their money. Audiologists caution against waiting too long, however. "It's much easier to get used to a hearing aid when the loss is mild and you're younger," says Susan Rezen, an audiology professor at Worcester State College in Massachusetts and co-author of Coping with Hearing Loss. "If you delay too long, you're taking the chance that your brain may get used to not processing speech...
...important step toward that goal. No, they didn't announce a new therapy that can stem the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. Instead, in a study that was published in the March issue of the Archives of Neurology, they provided compelling evidence that a condition called mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, which is characterized by repeated lapses in short-term memory, is in fact in many patients the earliest stage of Alzheimer's disease...
Should the Washington University findings hold up, they could eventually provide drug companies with another target for treating or even preventing Alzheimer's. Perhaps more immediately, however, the results could trigger all sorts of financial and legal headaches if, for example, insurance companies start labeling mild cognitive impairment as a pre-existing condition that disqualifies patients from long-term health-care coverage. This is apart from the emotional trauma of patients realizing that they probably have an incurable disorder...
...event, the research underscores the fact that as scientists increase their knowledge about the earliest manifestations of Alzheimer's disease, more questions are being raised than can be answered. For instance, what exactly do researchers mean when they talk about mild cognitive impairment? "There are lots of conditions that can be subsumed under the term," says Dr. John Morris, lead author of the study. MCI could stem from the side effects of taking too many medications, a blow to the head or the lassitudes of depression. But what Morris and others are focusing on is repeated problems with short-term...