The abortion rate in America is at its lowest level for 30 years, according to a new study by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research group.

生殖健康研究所古特马赫新出的一份研究显示，如今美国的人工流产率已经降到了其30年来的最低。

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On Thursday, the Public Citizen Health Research Group petitioned the U.S. Food and drug Administration to ban the only approved long-term weight-loss drug, orlistat.

周四，公共市民健康研究机构提请美国食品和药物管理局(FDA)禁止唯一获得批准的长效减肥药奥利斯特。

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Some experts believe they will work, but John Sheils of the Lewin Group, a health care policy research company, speaks for many others.

某些专家相信这些措施会产生效果，但来自医疗政策研究公司勒温集团（Lewin Group）的约翰·肖（John Sheils）的观点则代表了很多人的看法。

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Camilla Rees from an American group called Electromagnetic Health praised the report but says wider research is needed.

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But study author Kristine Funk, the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research says those averages mask significant differences within the group of website users.

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On Thursday, the Public Citizen Health Research Group petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ban the only approved long-term weight-loss drug, orlistat.

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Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group -- part of the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen -- isn't hopeful about the development of an effective and safe weight-loss drug.

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"Unless a plan is doing well on everything, patients are getting the short end of the stick, " says Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group and an author of the report.

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