Recent study revealed that the number of U.S. women ages 16-25 screened for chlamydia has increased from 25 percent to 43 percent during 2000-2006. Research team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that there are still far too few women being screened. 

Researchers wrote in the report that Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States, with more than 2.8 million new cases estimated to occur each year. 

A recent survey revealed that the number of people desirous of donating organs is far more than the number of registered donors. Most Americans harbor various misconceptions relating donation of organs which prevent them from becoming active donors.

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Around 25,000 children in the United States are born to mothers with epilepsy each year. Recent study found that children of women with epilepsy who took the drug valproate (Depakote) during pregnancy had lower I Q at the age of three as compared to other children.

A stroke is a brain attack, it happens when the blood supply is cut to the brain, it causes brain cells to die and results in brain damage. Recently group of researchers identified a chromosomal region that may contain two genetic variants which could increase risk of ischemic stroke.

A group of patients with type 1 diabetes were able to live without insulin injection for months after getting treatment involving their stem cells. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells within the pancreas.