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...families of anorexics, Holm-Denoma's research only affirms their worst fears. One of the biggest frustrations these families face when their loved one is diagnosed with anorexia is how they can obtain affordable psychiatric help. Insurers rarely pick up the bill. Most health plans argue that eating disorders require mental health treatment not covered by most policies and therefore refuse to pay for long-term care. In the direst cases, health plans will often cover a brief hospitalization to stabilize a patient's weight. But once she begins to gain weight again, she will be sent home. "The biological...
...implications: the end to the long-standing ban on the sale of contraception. Divorce and abortion would follow, as well as some of Europe's most open access to assisted-fertility treatments. In just decades, Spain has gone from a country whose women were forced to go abroad to obtain a safe and legal abortion to one that draws thousands of couples for its advanced assisted-fertility treatment...
...provides a place for international students to connect—even if you are the only student from your country. HIO for its part assists with the more mundane challenges that internationals face in Cambridge. According to Dlamini, the HIO also helps students open bank accounts, pay taxes, and obtain passports. “They do a very good job of taking care of you here,” Dlamini says. Residential life also fosters a strong sense of belonging outside the international community. “It’s freaking cold in Cambridge,” Sengeh says...
...them in their review of the literature. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must receive records of all relevant pharmaceutical-company trials, both published and unpublished, before it will approve a drug. Under the Freedom of Information Act, the researchers writing in PLoS Medicine were recently able to obtain those FDA records of industry-sponsored clinical trials. They yield data, they believe, that lets them avoid a bias that often plagues reviews of previous research: the tendency for conclusive positive results to be published, sometimes more than once, and thus over-represented, while mediocre results can be ignored...
...this weekend when a hacker accessed the Web site of the Graduate School for Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and made its secure server available for download through the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing site, “The Pirate Bay,” where users can easily obtain large files...