Mara Gordon
Stories
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Health
Lubrication And Lots Of Communication: Navigating A New Sexual Life After Menopause
A new book, Flash Count Diary, celebrates the emotional and creative freedom of postmenopausal intimacy.
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Health
Why Do Doctors Overtreat? For Many, It's What They're Trained To Do
Ordering more tests or treatments is not always best for patients' health or wallet. A group of medical educators is trying to address the problem where they think it starts: medical training.
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When A Nurse Is Prosecuted For A Fatal Medical Mistake, Does It Make Medicine Safer?
A nurse was charged with 'reckless homicide' after mistakenly giving a patient a fatal dose of the wrong medicine. Patient safety experts say this may actually make hospitals less safe.
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National
Controversial 'Abortion Reversal' Regimen Is Put To The Test
Several states require doctors who perform medical abortions to tell their patients the procedure can be "reversed" with progesterone. There's an absence of evidence to support that contention.
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Health
Medical Anthropologist Explores 'Vaccine Hesitancy'
Families learn to be skeptical about vaccines in communities where incomplete vaccination is the norm. A researcher into the phenomenon found that people are ready to listen, if they're heard, too.
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Health
A Drug That Eases Miscarriages Is Difficult For Women To Get
Despite evidence that mifepristone can help recovery from miscarriages, access to the medicine, which is commonly used to provide abortions, remains limited.
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Health
For Doctors Who Want To Provide Abortions, Employment Contracts Often Tie Their Hands
Some doctors are morally opposed to performing abortions. Others feel it's their calling and give up weekends to work at small clinics that offer them. And that can put their jobs in jeopardy.
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Health
How Doctors And Nurses Cope With The Human Toll Of Gun Violence
Researchers are trying to understand how exposure to trauma cases affects clinicians and how they can get the mental health care they may need. For now, there are more questions than answers.
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Health
How Hospitals Can Tackle The Maternal Mortality Crisis
American women are more likely to die from preventable childbirth complications than women in other developed countries. A group of obstetricians says hospitals can do a lot to change this.