Alan Guttmacher Institute
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flag this descriptionThe Guttmacher Institute is a non-profit organization which works to advance reproductive health as defined by the World Health Organization. The institute operates in the United States and globally "through an interrelated program of social science research, policy analysis and public education." According to their mission statement, this program aims to "generate new ideas, encourage enlightened public debate, promote sound policy and program development and, ultimately, inform individual decision making."
The Guttmacher Institute in 1968 was founded as the "Center for Family Planning Program Development", a semi-autonomous division of The Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The Center was renamed in memory of Alan Frank Guttmacher, an Ob/Gyn and former president of Planned Parenthood, and the Guttmacher Institute became an independent, not-for-profit corporation in 1977. Guttmacher's four decades of experience claims to demonstrate that scientific evidence — when reliably collected and analyzed, compellingly presented and systematically disseminated — can make a difference in policies, programs, and medical practice.
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The findings provide insight into how peripheral nerves function and may ultimately lead to new treatments for some peripheral neuropathies
The ATP7A protein has at least two distinct roles in the nervous system ... We knew it was critical for central nervous system development. But, before now, there had been no evidence that it played an important role in the function of motor neurons in the peripheral nervous system.
In Zambia, 10 percent of the children were thought to be dead at birth, but we have long known that if we stimulate the child -- perform CPR on the babies -- the child may start breathing ... The child may not have any obvious signs of being alive, but can have a heart beat, sometimes a very weak heartbeat and providing this low-cost training could be huge in saving a significant number of infants.
I thought life would be the way it was before ... I often wonder if there was something I could have done to help her.
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