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Around the world at least one woman in every three has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE).

Scientists from the School have found that dietary zinc supplementation reduces pneumonia incidence by 41 percent and diarrhea by as much as 25 percent.

"Our paper presents evidence that managed care organizations do not make less use of arbitrary benefit limits and cost-sharing provisions even though in theory they should be able to."

On average, patients treated in freestanding for-profit dialysis centers experience poorer survival rates and are less likely to be placed on the transplant waiting list than those who are managed in not-for-profit facilities.