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After years of back-and-forth deliberations, the FDA finally approved over-the-counter sales of Plan B, a contraceptive that can be taken after sex to prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. The drug has been available by prescription since 1999. In a 2003 ruling, the agency refused to change the drug's status, over the objections of its own scientific advisory committee. That ruling angered pro-choice groups. The reversal predictably infuriated right-to-lifers, but those who favor reproductive rights weren't thrilled either: the FDA allowed over-the-counter sales only to women...
...diabetes to Parkinson's. At a press conference this summer, Bush surrounded himself with "snowflake babies," born after couples adopted frozen embryos, and argued that such research was morally questionable. Still, U.S. scientists are pushing ahead, thanks to private funding. Those at Harvard's Stem Cell Institute began recruiting egg donors for studies that could generate customized stem cells from individual patients, while Advanced Cell Technology reported some success in creating stem cells without destroying embryos...
...Remi Hahn goes out her way to make her daughter Olivia feel included during the holidays. She offers to cook cupcakes for the preschool class party, using egg and butter substitutes. At Christmas time, she hosts a party so that her daughter can participate in the baking of a gingerbread house without breaking into hives or having an anaphylactic reaction. And on Christmas Eve, when her family goes out to dinner, Hahn is sure to have the roast beef cut in front of her and to bring extra food in her purse just in case nothing on the menu works...
...food allergies found that childhood allergies have a significant impact on family activities and lifestyles. Heidi Pasternak, a part-time tutor in Lexington, Massachusetts, had to quit her full-time teaching job because she couldn't find a milk-free daycare for her son Lucas (peanuts, tree nuts, milk, egg, sesame, shellfish, fish, barley). "The choices of things we've done as a family are severely limited," Pasternak says. "We only went to food-free places when he was a toddler. No Chuck E. Cheese. When I see an ice cream truck I have to walk the other way because...
...Avoid or adapt children's games involving food so that the allergic child doesn't feel left out. (e.g., don't use egg matzoh for "hide the afikomen" at Passover when a child who is allergic to eggs is present...