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An artificial pancreas given to pregnant women with diabetes could save mothers' lives and improve the health of their babies, researchers say.
link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12306579An artificial pancreas given to pregnant women with diabetes could save mothers'... more
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A low-cost ultrasound system is on its way to Uganda in early summer. Produced by students at the University of Washington, it's intended to help midwives battle the high death rate in the country's rural areas.
A low-cost maternal ultrasound system that began as a class project by a group of college students at the University of Washington in Seattle is to be tested by midwives in Uganda, a country with one of the world's highest maternal mortality rates.
Around 10 Ugandan midwives will be selected to participate in the field test project. The experiment will evaluate whether the device matches the midwives' needs and skills.
The device is designed to enable midwives to detect conditions that can complicate pregnancies and birth, such as multiple births, breech births--when the fetus' head is pointing upward--and blockage of the birth canal by the placenta. Midwives spotting these high-risk conditions in time could refer women to hospitals with facilities to handle them.
The student-designed device connects an ultrasound probe to a laptop computer with a touch-sensitive screen. Students have reduced the number of controls required to allow for easier operation than the type of display set up found in doctors' offices and hospitals.
The notebook has big, touchable buttons, which make it easy to adjust the controls for a clearer image. It also has a built-in system that provides assistance to the midwives and suggests ways to make the scan image better.
To reduce the cost of the device, the students wrote their own software. The device costs about $3,500. Ultrasound machines usually cost $15,000 to $60,000, a prohibitive amount for many African health care providers.
It could also reduce the need for costly remote interpretation and diagnosis.
You can read the full details on Women's eNews http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/110121/us-students-design-ultrasound-ugandan-midwivesA low-cost ultrasound system is on its way to Uganda in early summer. Produced by... more
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... Barrera was sentenced to 18 to 36 months in prison for engaging in sex with a 13-year-old boy. Barrera eventually pleaded guilty to a Class 3A felony child abuse charge instead of sexual assault and that was a big distinction for Barrera’s defense attorney Robert Lindemeier who argued on behalf of Barrera in Lincoln County District Court on Monday. ...
http://naughtyneighbors.zoeoez.com/2011/01/26/bella-barrera-north-platte-nebraska/... Barrera was sentenced to 18 to 36 months in prison for engaging in sex with a... more
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Prenatal Care: Early Pregnancy Visits
http://www.http://whattoeatwhenpregnant.lslcb.com/?cat=19Prenatal Care: Early Pregnancy Visits... more
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Teen pregnancy epidemic has hit a school in Memphis! Nearly 90 students at Frayser High School are pregnant or have given birth in the last year, according to the latest statistics report.Teen pregnancy epidemic has hit a school in Memphis! Nearly 90 students at Frayser... more
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About 11% of the students at Frayser High School in Memphis, Tennessee were pregnant this school year.
They’re probably going to battle it out to see who’s the next Teen Mom.About 11% of the students at Frayser High School in Memphis, Tennessee were pregnant... more
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Jennifer Riojas, 26-year-old teacherat Carter-Riverside High School, Fort Worth, Texas,has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 16-year-old male student.
Riojas was arrested on a felony charge of sexual assault of a child under the age of 17. She resigned from the Fort Worth Independent School District on Oct. 22 after she was accused of having sex with two male students.
According to the arrest affidavit, Riojas had sex with an underage football player who she taught last year Fort Worth police said the student came forward because he was worried that he could be the father of Riojas’ unborn child. The student told police they had sexual intercourse for the first time when he was hospitalized for a football injury when he was 16 years old. Riojas and the student, who is now 17, also had sex at different hotels near Northeast Mall, according to the arrest affidavit.
So far Riojas has denied the allegations. She said that her relationship with the students may have been too friendly but denied doing anything inappropriate.
It is not known who the father of Riojas’ unborn child is.
http://femaleteachersinheat.blogspot.com/2011/01/jennifer-riojas.htmlJennifer Riojas, 26-year-old teacherat Carter-Riverside High School, Fort Worth,... more
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Kate Hudson and her boyfriend, Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy, have been dating for merely nine months. Now the word is that the couple is expecting their first child together.Kate Hudson and her boyfriend, Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy, have been dating for... more
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On a recent winter morning in the tiny Bolivian village of Tayasigua, Deogracia Otega sat on a wooden bench, nervously clutching her purse.
The indigenous Guarani woman with tired eyes said that it burned when she urinated and her lower abdomen ached. "I'm worried about cervical cancer," said the 45 year-old grandmother of two as she waited to consult the doctor setting up opening up shop in the one-room brick school house behind her.
Half an hour later, Otega emerged, relieved. She was in the clear for now, she said. "I didn't even know what a cervix was before the mobile health units starting arriving," she added with an embarrassed half-smile:
Otega's medical care was likely not discussed at the recent U.N. summit on the progress of the world in meeting Millennium Development Goals by the deadline year in 2015. But it could have been. Her consult is an example of what's helping South America's poorest country advance in its maternal health goals, as well improve its populations overall sexual and reproductive health.
Read the full story on Women's eNews: http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/101228/pickups-mobilize-bolivias-maternal-healthcareOn a recent winter morning in the tiny Bolivian village of Tayasigua, Deogracia Otega... more
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Payments demanded by doctors for conducting deliveries of babies after 11 at night at a district public health center in Udaipur, a city in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, came down dramatically around August 2009.
That was after 21 women elected by community members to the local self-government--or panchayat--co-signed a letter to the doctor in charge of the government primary health center. In it they complained about the financial exploitation, scarce staff, absence of facilities and incomplete prenatal care.
Soon after, they met with public health officials who promised to address their complaints, which included demands for more funding.
The women didn't stop there. They began visiting the health center every month to monitor absenteeism among health workers and to ensure that clinicians' demands for special payments be stopped.
In the neighboring state of Gujarat, panchayat and self-help group members of the Panchmahals community tracked the provision of public maternal health services in their respective hamlets.
One investigation found that women in one village did not receive care because a female health worker objected to walking across a muddy area to reach them. The activists then provided a medial official with a list of the women who did not receive any services during their pregnancy or childbirth. After that the government opened a satellite center to serve the previously neglected women.
That kind of advocacy and intervention represents a big change in the 219 villages in nine rural and tribal blocks of Gujarat and Rajasthan.
It's a change that began when the Center for Health Education, Training and Nutritional Awareness, a Gujarat based nongovernmental organization that has been advocating for women and children in Gujarat and Rajasthan for the past three decades began to intervene in June 2007. The goal: to make better maternal care part of local self-government.
Read the full story at Women's eNews http://www.womensenews.org/story/reproductive-health/101224/maternity-care-improves-in-indian-trouble-spotsPayments demanded by doctors for conducting deliveries of babies after 11 at night at... more
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Jim Curran is the third generation of his family to be born at the Niagara Falls General Hospital in Ontario, Canada.
Two of his three children make the fourth.
But any chances of a fifth generation being born there are in doubt.
Two years ago, the Niagara Health System, an organization managing a network of 12 hospitals in the Niagara Falls region of Ontario, announced a plan to centralize maternity care by closing two wards and expanding the one at the hospital in St. Catharine, a neighboring town northeast of Niagara Falls.
Curran, 46, a real estate broker, has spent off hours fighting to save the maternity unit at Niagara Falls General Hospital. Losing the ward, he says, will make it hard for women, particularly those who don't have their own cars, to reach medical help.
"We're in the snow belt up here," he said in a recent phone interview, "so what happens when the roads are closed?"
The maternity ward closings in the Niagara Falls region are part of a looming maternity care crisis in Ontario and across Canada, a nation often praised for its universal health care system.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/medicine/101220/canada-faces-growing-loss-maternity-wardsJim Curran is the third generation of his family to be born at the Niagara Falls... more
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Exposure to the chemical BPA very early in life might make it hard to get pregnant later on.
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* BPA exposure could make pregnancy later in life more difficult.
* In mice, BPA affected fertility at levels equivalent to what people are normally exposed to and also at much tinier doses.
* Regulators need to recognize that hormones and hormone-like chemicals have different effects at different doses.
more at link....
So, why do they spray it to line baby bottles, beer cans, canned vegetables etc?
EUGENICSExposure to the chemical BPA very early in life might make it hard to get pregnant... more
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Shannon Ellis, 38-year-old woman from Indianapolis, Indiana,has been sentenced to eight years in prison for engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.
The sexual relationship between the young boy and the adult woman occurred in 2007 and 2008 and were exposed after Ellis became pregnant. Ellis'husband had been vasectomized and the DNA test confirmed that the boy was the father of the girl born April 2008.
http://femalesexoffenders.com/fso/index.php/the-news/260-shannon-ellisShannon Ellis, 38-year-old woman from Indianapolis, Indiana,has been sentenced to... more
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Following three decades of increases, in 2008 the nation saw the first two-year decline in the preterm birth rate on the 2010 March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card. Overall, the United States received a “D” on the report card.Following three decades of increases, in 2008 the nation saw the first two-year... more
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Mothers who puff a pack a day or more while pregnant run upto 30% higher risk of having kids who become criminal offenders, according to a study which was published on Tuesday. http://www.indiareport.com/India-usa-uk-news/toi/Health/43229Mothers who puff a pack a day or more while pregnant run upto 30% higher risk of... more
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Written by Brenda Zulu for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.
This is the seventh in a series of articles from Keeping Our Promise: Addressing Unsafe Abortion in Africa this week. The conference has brought together more than 250 health providers, advocates, policy makers and youth participants for a discussion of how to reduce the impact of unsafe abortion in Africa.
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One in 13 women in the Democratic Republic of Congo dies in pregnancy or childbirth—that’s one death every half hour of every day.
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Health problems related to pregnancy and childbirth remain the leading cause of ill health and death for women of childbearing age worldwide. But the impact is even greater in countries in the throes of a humanitarian emergency or crisis.
Addressing unsafe abortion in emergency situations at the ‘Keeping Our Promise’ conference in Accra last week, Dr Wilma Doedens of the Humanitarian Response Branch in UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) noted that, in the unstable environment created by a humanitarian crisis, women are at risk for an unwanted pregnancies, whether as a result of a breakdown in the health system (making family planning services unavailable), or as a result of rape that has become a consistent weapon against communities in eastern Congo.
In this context, pregnancy is particularly dangerous.
“Malnutrition and epidemics increase risks of pregnancy complications and often the lack of access to emergency obstetric care increases risk of maternal death,”said Dr Doedens.
Testimonies of women survivors of war played at the conference starkly illustrated the impact of rape and a lack of reproductive health care in the Congo.
One woman simply called Cecily explained:
“We have had war for many years and nothing has changed. We have nothing now, I have six children. It is hard to feed everyone. We have one meal per day and only my sons go to school since I do not have enough money to take the girls as well. I have heard that women can stop getting pregnant but I don’t know how and no one has told me how. I wish I could stop. I don’t want to be pregnant anymore.”
In an interview, Dr Boubacar Toure, Reproductive Health Advisor to the International Rescue Committee in Congo, outlined challenges to quality reproductive and post-rape health care in Congo.
He said that in Congo, the average age of women at their first pregnancy was 15 years, the age at which many girls were married. Read more http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/11/15/abortion-emergency-situations-story-democratic-republic-congoWritten by Brenda Zulu for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community... more
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