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• More women are having fewer children, if at all
WASHINGTON - More women in their early 40s are childless, and those who are having children are having fewer than ever before, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In the last 30 years, the number of women age 40 to 44 with no children has doubled ...
• More U.S. women dying in childbirth
ATLANTA - U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame. Some ...
• Polygamists make a fashion statement
For a society accustomed to the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, the images of the women from the polygamist compound in Texas are almost shocking in their understatement: Ankle-length dresses, makeup-less faces, hauntingly uniform hair. And ...
• Easily startled? Gene may be to blame
To examine the relationship between COMT gene variants and the startle reflex, Montag's team recruited 96 young German women who were an average of 22 years old. There are two major variations of the COMT gene, one known as Val158 and the other Met158 ...
• Green card applicants must get HPV vaccine
Gardasil, the only cervical cancer vaccine on the market, was approved in 2006 for girls and women ages 9 to 26. Last year, an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the vaccine for girls beginning at 11 or ...