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...potential to grow into a unique human being, assuming circumstances permit. As many as half of fertilized eggs naturally miscarry, usually before the prospective mother even knows she was pregnant. But there is a roiling debate over what factors might also affect implantation, with implications for everything from fertility treatment and contraception to criminal law and human rights. I wonder if McCain knows how deeply into troubled waters he has waded...
...Laboureur cried foul, complaining he "felt like a criminal being jailed" and suggesting that the father's position as a police official had led to treatment he decried as "completely out of proportion." Initial press reports and commentary on his case were dismissive of his claim of victimization; the pundits seemed far more concerned with how often legally prohibited corporal punishment takes place in French schools without anyone hearing about...
...dreary world of spinal stenosis was cheered up last February by a report in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that surgery for spinal stenosis works better than all of our other non-surgical treatments. The well-known authors of the paper included surgeons who have spent their careers doing the operation. The report claimed to be a first - an "evidence-based" study in which researchers did statistical analysis of how spinal stenosis patients fared with surgery versus non-surgical treatment...
...companies and hospital administrations are quite enthusiastic about evidence-based research. "Our evidence-based study says the test you ordered is not needed, so we're not paying for it" is the gist of their letters to patients and doctors. But has there been any improvement in our overall treatment of spinal stenosis since the revelation that the surgery actually works? Have more folks lined up for the operation since? Not that I can tell from my practice. When I tell stenosis patients that we now "know," in 2008, that the surgery works better than other treatments, they look...
Patients rarely question the drugs their doctors prescribe. But the truth is that doctors don't always prescribe the best or cheapest treatment. Actually, they don't always know what that is, given that they lack the time to keep up with the latest drug journal articles, pore over research on the Web or attend medical conferences. One of doctors' most convenient sources of new-drug information is, therefore, also the most biased: the chipper, gift-laden pharmaceutical salespeople who come to doctors' offices bearing free samples, prescribing tips and copies of the latest study that shows how great their...