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Monthly Archives: February 2004

HRT may damage hearing

The World’s No.1 Science & Technology News Service
18:00 24 February 04
NewScientist.com news service
 
Post-menopausal women who receive hormone replacement therapy may risk diminished hearing, suggest the results of a new study.

Tests on 64 women over the age of 60 - half of whom were on HRT - showed that those taking HRT had 10 to 30 per cent worse […]

STD’s

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) causes the
majority of oral herpes cases, and herpes simplex virus
type 2 (HSV-2) causes the majority of genital herpes
cases. However, both type 1 and type 2 HSV can
occur in the genitals, oral area, or both.
 
Moreover, HSV-2 prevalence among 12- to
19-year-old whites is now five times higher than it was
20 years […]

Ashcroft Subpoenas Medical Records of Women Who Had Abortions

Feminist Daily News Wire
February 13, 2004
 
The Department of Justice has issued a series of subpoenas to hospitals in several major cities demanding the medical records of women who have undergone certain abortion procedures. US Attorney General John Ashcroft is requesting these records in conjunction with legal challenges to the federal abortion procedure ban, signed into […]