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Writing in "Social Science and Medicine," [Stephen Post] looks closely at the most recent edition of psychiatry's "Bible," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, to see how it deals with religious belief and practices. The manual, published by the American Psychiatric Association, is the standard reference work for practitioners in the United States for diagnosis and treatment of mental illness

Modern medicine has learned how to use drugs to stimulate egg production. Women who reach menopause no longer can produce eggs. But even older women who can still make eggs with hormone therapy often encounter problems getting pregnant. Pregnancies from older eggs show much higher rates of birth defects and spontaneous abortion

Modern medicine has learned how to use drugs to stimulate egg production. Women who reach menopause can no longer produce eggs. But even older women who can still make eggs with hormone therapy often encounter problems getting pregnant. Pregnancies from older eggs show much higher rates of birth defects and spontaneous abortion

Modern medicine has learned how to use drugs to stimulate egg production. Women who reach menopause can no longer produce eggs. But even older women who can still make eggs with hormone therapy often encounter problems getting pregnant. Pregnancies from older eggs show much higher rates of birth defects and spontaneous abortion

By the time [Susan Fowler] was considered for a pig liver transplant, she had become comatose. Consent for the procedure was obtained from her family and the hospital's ethics committee. But the transplant team must have known for some time that they might try to use a pig liver to hold over a dying patient. The idea of trying a pig transplant as a bridge did not suddenly occur to them. While Fowler's emergency was all too real, it was an emergency that is easy to anticipate. People die every day because there are no human livers to give them. If the thing to do is tide some or all of them over with a pig's liver, then these plans ought be made known to the medical community and to the patient long before they become comatose

No one knows that better than the family and friends of John McGann. Four years ago, John McGann was working at H&H Music Company in Houston. In July 1988, the company told McGann and its other employees that it was going to drop its health-care insurance coverage

While no appearance took place, other persons have in recent years reported sightings of Mary, Jesus and various angels in places as disparate as Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie in Canada; Arizona, Queens, New Jersey, and New York in the U.S.; and Mexico and Croatia. Many, including a former U.S. presidential candidate, say they have received messages directly from God

Mary Shearing and her 32-year-old husband, Don, created the twins using eggs donated by a woman in her 20s. The eggs were then fertilized using a process known as in vitro fertilization

A 53-year-old California woman gave birth Nov. 11 to twins. Giving birth at 53 is remarkable enough, but even more remarkably, the woman had the babies even though she had lost the ability to make eggs

The report debunks the idea that violent crime is the work of violent career criminals. Only a few individuals commit violent crimes frequently. Most violent crime is committed by offenders who have some non-violent criminal violations on their record, but no previous history of violent crime