From 2009 until the first semester of 2012, a period that coincides with the posting of American soldiers in the
The use of the intrauterine device (IUD) is low in the United States (4.9% of women using contraception), although it
Actions for trying to reduce the spread of HIV are increasing, as a positive measure to reduce the prevalence of
Although often not discussed, in-vitro fertilisation can have particular medical complications. In relation to this, a recent paper published in
When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States at the end of 2008, many of his voters thought
In France, there is growing opinion that the prescription of third and fourth generation contraceptives should be stopped, as it
One major ethical issue is to determine whether babies born very prematurely should be kept alive using life support techniques
According to an article published in Nature Biotechnology (doi:10.1038/nbt.2565.published online 21 April 2013), a group of researchers from the University
An issue frequently discussed in relation to the world of assisted procreation is to try to correctly determine the incidence
As discussed in JAMA (309; 973, 2013), a report from the “Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)” in the United States,
The debate generated in the United States about whether religious institutions who employ women of reproductive age have an obligation
It is estimated that there were around 48,100 new HIV infections in the United States in 2009. Of these, 27%
The huge effort made by South Africa to combat HIV infection has ensured that around 1.9 million people received anti-retroviral
Knowing how and where the infection of humans by HIV began is the source of numerous studies. Now, Jacques Pepin
As an immediate consequence of the current economic difficulties, the Spanish pharmaceutical industry has reduced its financial donations to biomedical
The development of new prenatal tests to detect aneuploidy, by studying foetal DNA, could mean a real revolution in this
Suicide is a major public health problem. It is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for about one
Conserving fertility in women who are to be treated for cancer is a major medical and ethical problem. Three possibilities
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