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Drop In Access To Abortion Would Reward Antiabortion-Rights Violence, Opinion Piece Says
After the murder last month of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, "there is a very real danger" that the availability of abortion later in pregnancy "will end in this country -- not after public deliberation, legislative debate and majority vote, but because antiabortion absolutists on the fringe have intimidated and blacklisted doctors and successfully threatened violence against them," Jim Buie, author of the blog The Buie Knife, writes in a Newsweek.com opinion piece. Buie writes that his parents in the early 1950s chose to institutionalize his three-year-old-brother, who was born with severe Down syndrome, after their attempts to care for him left them with "severe emotional distress" and unable "to meet the needs of their healthy children."Buie continues that he "cannot say that the option of a late-term abortion would have been the right one for my parents." However, "some of the arguments advanced by pro-life forces disturb me," he says, especially a "tendency to romanticize, sentimentalize and idealize life with a cute, forever-young Down-syndrome "angel child."" Buie adds, "It"s an argument I find off-putting, especially when it"s espoused by people who have never been through the wringer trying to care for a child whose disability level is on the most severe end of the scale." He continues, "At the same time, it is very disturbing that until recently, the majority of Down-syndrome fetuses were aborted without expectant mothers receiving proper information or support."Because of Tiller"s murder, it is "possible there won"t be any doctors in the country willing to perform" abortion later in pregnancy, "even if prenatal tests indicate severe retardation," according to Buie, who adds that this would mean that "domestic terrorism could win." He concludes, "It would mean that parents like my own would no longer have a choice, and would instead be forced to endure the same harsh realities that were present in the 1950s" (Buie, Newsweek.com, 6/17).
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Families Struggle In Low-, Middle-Income Countries To Pay For Health Care, Study Shows
IRIN examines a Health Affairs report that found "one in four families living in the world"s poorest countries borrows money or sells assets in order to afford health care" (7/15).
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Erectile Dysfunction Might Be Associated With Chronic Periodontal Disease: Two Ends Of The Cardiovascular Spectrum

UroToday.com - Together with Drs. Heruti, Bechor, Justo and Galor, we studied 815 Israeli male adults of whom 305 had complete data and were included in the statistical analysis. In the analyzed population, 2.1% of people without erectile dysfunction (ED) had advanced periodontal disease (defined as recession of periodontal bone of 6 mm or more) in comparison to 9.8% of the mild ED and 15.8% of the moderate/severe ED populations, respectively. However, due to the relatively small groups, we could not present the odds ratio. We are now planning a large-scale study to further establish the association between the two conditions. The proposed pathogenesis for this association is based on the previous findings of DNA of periodontal pathogenic bacteria in athermanous plaques and the epidemiological association between periodontal disease and coronary heart morbidity found in many world-wide large-scale studies. And since ED too was proven to be an early sign of coronary heart disease, it is reasonable to believe that extra-oral inflammation induced by periodontal bacteria might be associated with atherosclerosis and dysfunction of vessels first in the small vessels, such as the penile vasculature, and later in larger vessels such as the coronaries. Thus, as we conclude in the article, "CPD might be associated first with ED in young men and later with coronary artery disease in middle-aged men." Laboratory studies are needed, however, to confirm that hypothesis. Indeed, it is too early to make practical recommendations based on these initial results. However, the general population, as well as healthcare providers, have to remember that oral and periodontal health conditions as well as sexual function are both parts of individual well-being. Both conditions are linked to other serious diseases such as coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus, thus the healthcare provider has to pay attention to early signs of impaired health or function and refer the patient for evaluation by the appropriate health care worker. Written by Yehuda Zadik, DMD MHA as part of Beyond the Abstract on UroToday.com UroToday - the only urology website with original content written by global urology key opinion leaders actively engaged in clinical practice. To access the latest urology news releases from UroToday, go to: www.urotoday.com Copyright: Medical News Today Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today


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