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...abortion - using drugs versus surgery - on women's long-term reproductive health. After adjusting for variables such as maternal age, number of births prior to abortion and gestational age at the time of abortion, researchers found no increase in risk of ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, premature birth or low birth weight in the medication group, as compared with the women who got surgical abortions. In both groups, ectopic pregnancies occurred about 2.4% of the time; miscarriages occurred about 12.5% of the time...
...Defense News, Kris Osborne reports that Exponent, a California firm, has had its MARCbot series since April 2004. They cost about $10,000 apiece, weigh 25 lbs and can be used at night. Meanwhile, Defense News says that Foster-Miller, a Massachussets company, may propose a lighter-weight version of its current 115 to 140 lb. TALON model...
Karsenty became intrigued by the relationship between fat and bone after showing in 2002 how leptin, a hormone secreted by fat cells, influences bone formation. Leptin is best known as a regulator of body weight and appetite. Karsenty reasoned that if fat influences bone, then the reverse must be true. And, he says, there was another clue to the relationship: "We were using the observation that obese people are [relatively] protected from osteoporosis...
...some ways it's logical that bone and fat tissue would talk to each other. "Obviously there does need to be some coordination between skeletal growth and body mass," says C. Ronald Kahn, director of the Joslin Diabetes Center at Harvard. "If you carry around extra weight, your bones need to hold up under the extra pressure, so it's not surprising that your bones have a sense of body...
...course, none of the studies has yet proved that diet foods or beverages actually cause weight gain or heart disease; they have merely found an intriguing association, which scientists are still trying to explain. Well, nobody ever said counting calories was easy...