Female Prisoners Released In Mexican 'Miscarriage' Case

Seven women serving prison terms in Mexico for the deaths of their newborns were released Tuesday after the state of Guanajuato enacted a legal reform that lowered their sentences to time already served, the AP/Yahoo! News reports…

Also In Global Health News: Bird Flu In Bangladesh; Women's Health In Kenya; Drug-Resistant Malaria In Cambodia; Over-Diagnosis Of Malaria In Children

USAID Program To Prevent Spread Of Bird Flu In Bangladesh Expands All Headline News reports on a USAID-funded initiative to prevent the spread of bird flu in Bangladesh…

Also In Global Health News: South Africa TB Study; Plight Of Widows; Africa Invests In Science; Global Fund Money To Indonesia

Study In South Africa Examines TB/HIV Coinfection, MDR-TB Researchers found that 50 percent of deceased patients at a hospital in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal were infected with active tuberculosis, and 17 percent of those with active TB had a multi-drug resistant strain, according to a PLoS Medicine study published on Tuesday, Nature News reports (Maxmen, 6/23)…

Rep. Slaughter Urges Senate Judiciary Committee To Press Kagan About Abortion Views

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), co-chair of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging lawmakers to thoroughly question Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan about her views on abortion rights, the AP/Google News reports. Slaughter described as “troubling” a memo that Kagan wrote in 1997 while working as a policy adviser in the Clinton White House…

Health Experts Gather In Ethiopia To Discuss Child, Maternal Health In Africa

A group of health experts gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, to kick off a continental conference on maternal and child health, VOA News reports (Heinlein, 4/19). Maternal and child health experts from African Union (AU) states, U.N…

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