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SC orders medical examination of woman seeking to terminate 23-week foetus
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the constitution of a seven-member medical board to examine the medical condition of a 23-week pregnant woman who had sought permission to abort her foetus suffering from serious abnormalities.
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Overweight diabetic patients have more severe abnormalities in brain struc
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Atlanta [US], May 1 (ANI): Overweight and obese people with early-stage type 2 diabetes have more severe abnormalities in brain structure and cognition than normal-weight people with type 2 diabetes, researchers suggest.
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Predicting severe liver disease: Obesity, insulin, diabetes, cholesterol,
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 23 (ANI): A recent study has demonstrated that in the general population, central obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, lipid abnormalities and high alcohol consumption were the strongest predictors of severe liver disease.
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Enzyme deficiency in brain linked to extreme hunger, severe obesity: Study
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 14 (ANI): U.S. researchers have found that the deficiency of an enzyme -prohormone covertase (PC1) - in the brain is linked to neuro-hormonal abnormalities, a genetic condition that causes extreme hunger and severe obesity beginning in childhood.
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SC allows Mumbai rape victim to medically terminate pregnancy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 25 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a petitioner, who is a rape victim, to medically terminate her 24 week pregnancy as the abnormalities in foetus have been confirmed by the report of the Medical Board.
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