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Scientists say a baby girl born with HIV has been cured

By Samhita | Published: March 4, 2013
TweetA turning point in HIV/AIDs medicine yesterday–scientists have found a baby girl that they believe has been cured of HIV through the application of heavy doses of anti-viral drugs within the first 2 days of birth. via NPR, The fact that the newborn tested positive for HIV within 30 hours of birth is a sign [...]
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Study confirms that women don’t speak up as much when outnumbered by men

By Maya | Published: September 20, 2012
TweetA new study confirms what most of us probably already know: Scholars at Brigham Young University and Princeton examined whether women speak less than men when a group collaborates to solve a problem. In most groups that they studied, the time that women spoke was significantly less than their proportional representation – amounting to less [...]
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New study: LGBT issues barely taught in medical school

By Vanessa | Published: September 7, 2011
TweetA new study authored by the LGBT Medical Education Research Group at Stanford has found that LGBT-related content gets barely any time in medical school classes: 44 medical schools reported dedicating no teaching time to LGBT-related content during clinical years, and in preclinical curricula, nine medical schools reported spending no time on LGBT issues, according to a study [...]
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Quick Hit: New research on gender differences and casual sex

By Vanessa | Published: March 4, 2011
TweetWhat would your reaction be if a complete stranger walks up to you in the middle of the day and asks if you’d like to have casual sex? Thomas over at Yes Means Yes has some fantastic analysis on new research done around a study that tested this very interaction. This kind of (cisnormative and [...]
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A Record Low for Teen Birth Rates

By goddessjaz | Published: December 21, 2010
TweetNew research released today from the National Center for Health Statistics reports that the teen birth rate for 2009 hit a record low. According to the study, the birth rate among U.S. girls aged 15 to 19 fell to 39.1 births per 1,000 teens in 2009, a 6 percent drop from 2008 and the lowest [...]
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