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Childbirth - Baby - Mother
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Gentle birth options: Hospital births
The Examiner
| All parents have many choices facing them right from the beginning, and one of the biggest is childbirth. We live in a culture in which birth -- one of the most natural processes on earth -- has been medicalized. Unfortunately, in many ways, this has robbed women of many of the choices we should h...
 KLdy1 - Feb07 - chimpanzee - jkt07. (dy1)
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Chimp springs surprise on zoo staff by giving birth to healthy baby girl at the ...
The Daily Mail
| A 56-year-old chimpanzee has stunned staff at an American zoo by giving birth to a healthy baby girl. | Keepers at Sunset Zoo in Manhattan, Kansas, had been aware that Susie had been pregnant after undergoing and ultrasound in July. | But the arrival of a baby female chimp last week still came as ...
Giving Birth to a Premature or Low Weight Baby at a Lower Grade Hospital Increases ...
redOrbit
| (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- When giving birth to babies, the mother, more times than not will simply go to the hospital closest to her home, but this study shows that very low-birth-weight babies and premature babies have an increased chance of death. | ...
Birth control and antibiotics, discover the truth
The Examiner
| Every woman on the birth control pill has heard it before..."Make sure to use additional protection when taking an antibiotic because it can break down your birth control." |   | This page is currently under construction. Please check back later. ...
Analysis Sees Higher Death Rate For Very Low-Birth-Weight Infants Born At Less-Specialized Hospitals
redOrbit
| An analysis of data from previously published studies indicates that very low-birth-weight and very preterm infants not born in highly specialized, level III hospitals have an associated higher likelihood of neonatal and predischarge death compared...
Italy health minister apologizes for botched birth
The Guardian
| MESSINA, Sicily (AP) — Italy's health minister traveled to Sicily on Monday to apologize to a woman whose delivery of a son was botched when her two doctors got into a fistfight in the operating room. | Laura Salpietro, 30, had to have her uterus...
Contraceptive, Birth Control Pill
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Birth Control Pills Just As Effective For Obese Women
redOrbit
| Despite previous studies suggesting otherwise, a new study suggests that birth control pills work just as well to prevent pregnancy in obese women as it does in thinner women. | ...
Gentle birth options: Hospital births
The Examiner
| All parents have many choices facing them right from the beginning, and one of the biggest is childbirth. We live in a culture in which birth -- one of the most natural processes on earth -- has been medicalized. Unfortunately, in many ways, this h...
Women have another option for permanent birth control with Essure
The Examiner
| The Centers for Disease Control reports that one in four women choose permanent birth control. | When women decide their families are complete, many are turning to options that don’t require continuous effort or room for error. | While many women...
ER births are like controlled chaos
The Columbus Dispatch
| Giving birth. Such a beautiful and wondrous experience. | We in the emergency department tend to have a different view of the event. Sure, it's "fun" catching babies and, frankly, we spend a lot of our days giving bad news, so bringing a new life i...
Women
Gender issues
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Gender issues
The Hindu
| I refer to the discussion on gender issues in the Open Page of August 29. Gender differences, supposedly, do not matter much for the younger generation. Movies and television serials show girls and boys learning and working together in harmony. But life on college campusus, at least in Kerala, is a far cry from these "cheese" movie frames. Boys d...
Health
Milk - Dairy
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Tainted milk woes boil over
The Star
| Chinese consumers find themselves in a Catch-22 situation, with both local and foreign dairy products having their own share of problems and seemingly too risky for consumption | TWO weeks after Chinese health authorities announced they found no evidence of premature breast growth among infants - allegedly caused by the Synutra brand of milk form...



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