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Unquestionable risks of twin pregnancies It is recognised that multiple pregnancies increase the risk of obstetric and perinatal problems. In order to assess this risk, two groups of women undergoing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) were compared: one in which a single embryo was...

Female Viagra.”Hypoactive sexual desire disorder” to which the indication for the new drug refers, is very controversial”. On 4th June this year, a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee, responsible for the regulation and...

Last fertility rate: the number of children per woman of reproductive age in Spain has fallen from 3.01 in 1964 to 1.32 in 2012. These rates per year were:  3.01 in 1964; 2.84 in 1970; 2.89 in 1974; 2.20 in 1980; 1.36 in 1990; 1.23 in 2000; 1.39 in 2007; 1.46 in 2008; 1.39 in...

It is the leading cause of death among men aged 25-34 years old  Around ten suicides occur daily in Spain. For every death, there are between 10 and 20 suicide attempts. According to the latest recorded data, 3,539 people committed suicide in 2012: 2724 men and 815 women. It is...

AIDS: Between 1995 and 2012, antiretroviral treatments prevented 5.4 million deaths due to AIDS in under- and moderately developed countries, and averted the death of more than one million children by impeding mother-child transmission (New England Journal of Medicine 370;...

A significant relationship between induced abortions and the risk of breast cancer. A meta-analysis (Cancer Causes and Control, DOI.10.1007/sl0552-013.0325-7), has revealed a link between breast cancer and abortion. The Chinese study made use of data from 14 Chinese provinces....

A concern raised some time ago is to determine whether the iPS cells produced from adult somatic cells have the specific characteristics of embryonic stem cells. If so, iPS cells could advantageously replace embryonic stem cells for experimental and clinical purposes, without the...