Exemptions Surge As Parents And Doctors Do ‘Hail Mary’ Around Vaccine Laws
SAN JOSE, Calif. — At two public charter schools in the Sonoma wine country town of Sebastopol, more than half the kindergartners received medical exemptions from state-required vaccines last school year. The cities of Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Nevada City, Arcata
What are genes and why are they important?
All living beings have genes. They exist throughout the body. Genes are a set of instructions that determine what the organism is like, its appearance, how it survives, and how it behaves in its environment.Genes are made of a substance
Thank you for a miracle!
Svetlana Shiyanova, please tell us what influenced your choice of profession - an obstetrician-gynecologist and fertility specialist - and how did your association with ISIDA come about?It seems that the choice was made by destiny, it simply could not have
IVF: Fertile Ground
Sunitha and Suresh Ramaswamy, both Gurgaon-based corporate executives in their late 30s and married for a little over 10 years, have been planning a family for the past three years. “We decided to go in for a late pregnancy as
The dark side of medical tourism: How quick and cheap treatment abroad can prove costly to health, and our health-care system
When Mike Watson chose to go under the knife on the other side of the world, he made the decision “out of necessity.” After doctors in B.C. told the Okanagan father-of-three that, for medical reasons, he would have to wait six
Foreign patients flock to cheaper care
The foreign patients section at the towering glass and chrome Medanta Medicity hospital in Gurgaon is not unlike the arrivals lounge of a busy international airport. Patients from all over the world flock here for treatment, drawn by the value
A Cautionary Tale of ‘Stem Cell Tourism’
Jim Gass has undergone stem cell therapy at clinics in Mexico, China, and Argentina to try to recover from a stroke. But doctors found a huge mass with someone else’s cells growing aggressively in his lower spine. CreditCarlos Moreno for
And The Gold Medal Goes To: Zika
Four years ago I was sitting in the living room of my basement apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. My MCAT study guide was sitting next to me, not out of sight, but
Can medical tourism succeed in Central Florida?
Jody Hill was running out of options.The Los Angeles-based writer and producer had been suffering from a fairly rare condition called chronic groin pain, and none of the doctors in L.A. were able to help him. His visit to a
Life or Death: Why Chinese Patients Mix Drug Cocktails at Home
Hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV causes a hepatitis that is transmitted through the blood stream (intraveinous drugs, professional exposure and nosocomial transmission). During chronic hepatitis C, cirrhosis can develop 10-20 years later, with a risk of hepatic cancer. Image produced