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Alan Trounson, California’s Doctor Stem Cell

In 2004, with President George W. Bush dead set against stem cell research, California just went ahead and did it. Voters made stem cell research a state constitutional right, and endorsed $3 billion in bond sales for 10 years to cement the deal. CIRM, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine created under Proposition 71, has become a world center for stem cell research, and its president is Australian Alan Trounson, a pioneer in in vitro fertilization. As Proposition 71 approaches its 10-year anniversary, Trounson offers a prognosis.

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Hot Flashes and Hormones: A Complex Issue

When night sweats, hot flashes and other signs of menopause come to call, many women find themselves desperate to soothe their symptoms. For some, the search for relief will lead them to consider bioidentical hormone therapy, a treatment that has been popularized by such celebrities as Suzanne Somers and Oprah Winfrey. Proponents say bioidentical hormones are natural, effective and safe, but is that true?

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State Seeks Summary Judgment in Sperm Donor Case

The Kansas Department for Children and Families filed a 33-page motion Friday seeking summary judgment in the case it filed in October seeking to have Topekan William Marotta declared the father of a 3-year-old girl Jennifer Schreiner bore in 2009 so he can be forced to pay child support.