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Court says kids aren't heirs in frozen sperm case
PORTAGE, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court says children conceived with frozen sperm from a deceased man can't be considered his heirs. The decision Friday means two Kalamazoo-area siblings won't be collecting Social Security benefits that...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Social Security
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Grandma gives birth to her own grandchild
CHICAGO (AP) — Setting foot in a hospital again, Emily and Mike Jordan couldn't help but feel anxious. More than two years before, at age 29, Emily had been diagnosed with cervical cancer. But just before she was to undergo a radical hysterectomy,...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, Pregnancy and Childbirth, University of Chicago
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Tiniest babies are growing up healthy despite odds
CHICAGO (AP) — One is a healthy first-grader, the other an honors college student majoring in psychology. Once the tiniest babies ever born, both girls are thriving, despite long odds when they entered the world weighing less than a pound. A...Tags: Human Body, Hospitals and Clinics, Lungs and Airways, High Blood Pressure, University of Iowa
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Surgery helps men regain fertility after cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — New research shows a painstaking surgical technique can help some men deemed infertile because of childhood cancer treatment to become fathers after all. Young men can bank sperm before cancer treatment if they're told that...Tags: Medical Research, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Treatments, Washington, DC, Surgery
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Fraternal twins with autism: Is risk in the womb?
CHICAGO (AP) — Experts have blamed most of the risk for autism on inherited genes. Now one of the largest studies of twins and autism shifts the focus to the womb. It suggests that the mother's age and health may play a larger role than was thought....Tags: Autism, Genes and Chromosomes, Behavioral Conditions, Health, Physical Conditions
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Program targets premature births
SOUTH BEND — After her twin girls were born, Nicole Blount didn't want to leave the hospital — because her babies couldn't.
Born 15 weeks early, Blount's daughters needed the constant medical care that Memorial Hospital's Natal Intensive Care...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Family, Premature Birth, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Social Sciences
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Ohio wrong-embryo couple gets twins from surrogate
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who gave birth to a Michigan woman's baby after a fertility clinic mix-up says she and her husband are new parents again. Carolyn and Sean Savage say a surrogate mother has given birth to their twin daughters....Tags: Michigan, Hospitals and Clinics, Ohio, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Health
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'True Blood's' Stephen Moyer, Anna Paquin share twins' names
Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin have finally revealed the names of their twins. The stars of vampire fantasy "True Blood" welcomed their little boy and girl prematurely last September but have remained mum about their monikers. But now the husband-and-...Tags: Amy Adams, People (magazine), Father's Day, Family, Anna Paquin
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Hoarding, hand-washing and obsessive checking: Which of these is not like the others?
People with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder can often shake their family tree and find a relative who has also contended with obsessive thoughts, hoarding, repetitive hand-washing, behavior in which locks and stove burners are checked over...Tags: Human Body, Medical Research, Brain, Genetics, Psychiatry
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com. For more information on Dr. Blythe, go to pediatricassociates.com.
April 29, 2013
Q: My 5-year-old daughter just had her adenoids and tonsils removed because of snoring...Tags: Wellbutrin (drug), Benadryl (drug), B Vitamins, Synthroid (drug), Strep Throat
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California courts familiar with gay parent issues
SAN FRANCISCO -- When the California Supreme Court struck down a same-sex marriage ban in 2008, the majority ruling reflected a series of decisions the court had already reached in disputes involving gay parents. Gay rights lawyers said this week...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, U.S. Supreme Court, Kamala D. Harris, Family, Same-Sex Marriage
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Proposed law would govern surrogate births
When Whitney Watts of Columbia agreed to bear twins on behalf of an infertile Boston couple two years ago, she entered a murky area of Maryland law. Nothing forbade her from signing a contract to carry babies conceived through in vitro fertilization and...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Lawyers, Roman Catholicism, Baltimore County, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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