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 Gender Information - January 9, 2009
| The U.S. Senate passed a crucial bill on Wednesday that will triple funding for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria around the world. Backed by President Bush, the plan received a 80-to-16 vote to authorize $48 billion over the next five years. The amount authorized is $18 billion more than what Bush had requested. It would replace and expand the current $15 billion program started by the President in 2003. That act expires at the end of September | | Women receiving kidneys from males donors are at a higher risk of organ rejection than those who received one from another woman, a new Swiss study says. Researchers now recommend that the gender of patients and donors should be considered in future operations to avoid such problems. Researchers at University Hospital Basel analyzed data on 195,516 people in Europe who received kidneys from deceased donors between 1985 and 2004, and found that gender can substantially affect whether the operation will be successful | | A transgender man who surprised the world in April by revealing he was pregnant gave birth Sunday to a baby girl at a hospital here. Thomas Beatie, 34, who switched gender from woman to man, delivered his baby at the St. Charles Medical Center. He gave birth naturally. The father has already left the hospital with his baby, who was conceived through artificial insemination using sperm from a donor | | A new study has uncovered a tangible link between an overweight person's weight and increased medical bills over a lifetime. Specifically, the study published in advance online by the Obesity journal calculated lifetime health bills of people overweight by 30 pounds or more to to be higher by $5,000 to $21,000 compared to people with normal weight | | A new study has uncovered a tangible link between an overweight person's weight and increased medical bills over a lifetime. Specifically, the study published in advance online by the Obesity journal calculated lifetime health bills of people overweight by 30 pounds or more to to be higher by $5,000 to $21,000 compared to people with normal weight | |
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