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Obese women have just the same protection against getting pregnant while taking birth control pills as normal-weight women, according to a study published in a recent edition of the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology’s green journal. This finding puts into question previous studies that have suggested that obese women required higher doses of oral contraceptives for the pills to be as effective as in normal-weight women.

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Strokes are considered an old person’s disease, but data collected by a physician in the Ohio-Kentucky area suggests the condition is striking more young people than ever before. “This is scary,” Brett Kissela, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, told the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

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