Baltimore Healthy Start Program Nearly Eradicates Low Birthweight Among Infants
Healthy Start program reported that for two consecutive years, nearly none of the infants born to women enrolled in the program had low birthweights.
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Slovakia Drops Effort To Abolish Allowing Health Workers To Object To Performing Abortions
Slovakia has decided against abolishing a conscience clause that allows physicians and health care workers to object to performing abortions.
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Fetuses Have Treatable Genetic Disorder Gaucher Disease, But Some Termionate Pregnancy
Informing couples that fetuses have treatable genetic disorder gaucher disease leads some to terminate pregnancy.
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Giving Every Baby A Healthy Start
Thalia joined forces with the March of Dimes to educate women about the steps they can take to reduce their chances of having a premature baby.
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China To Augment Fines For Couples Who Violate One-Child Policy
Chinese authorities to check incomes and financial statements before issuing fines for couples who violate the national one-child-per-family policy.
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'Conscience Clause' Would Allow Physicians To Refuse Abortions
'Conscience clause' would allow doctors to object to performing abortions.
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Multnomah County To Help Reduce Infant Mortality
Multnomah County's Healthy Birth Initiatives provides support and services aimed at eliminating health disparities of infant mortality.
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Infant Mortality Rate Drops In North Carolina
North Carolina's 2006 infant mortality rate was 8.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2006, the lowest in the state's history.
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Giuliani's Support For Abortion Rights Could Help Overturn Roe
Rudy Giuliani's support for abortion rights could help abortion-rights opponents "win" the abortion debate at the state level.
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Old drug with new hopes for pre-eclampsia cure
New drug could be used to delay delivery in expectant mothers with severe preeclampsia.
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Physicians Don't Have To Tell Women Seeking Abortions That Procedure Kills Human Being
Physicians are not required to inform women seeking abortions that the procedure would result in killing an existing human being.
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Missouri Law Would Require Abortion Clinics To Upgrade Facilities
U.S. District Judge extended a temporary restraining order blocking a Missouri law that would designate facilities performing second- or third-trimester abortions.
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Abortion Could Threaten Future Of Europe
Pope Benedict XVI said abortion could threaten the future of Europe.
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North Carolina Providing No-Cost Progesterone Shots To, Uninsured Pregnant Women To Reduce Preterm Births
A program launched in North Carolina in January to provide no-cost progesterone shots to low-income and uninsured pregnant women at risk of preterm birth.
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Kansas Abortion Opponents Petition For Grand Jury Investigation Of Abortion Provider Tiller
The antiabortion group Kansans for Life delivered a petition asking for a Sedgwick County, Kan. to investigate abortion provider George Tiller.
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Reuters Examines Abortion, Family Planning In Philippines
Reuters examined abortion in the Philippines and how the phase out of a USAID-funded program that provides contraceptives to women in the country.
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Huckabee Expresses Support For Abortion Ban Amendment
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee supports a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion.
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States Release Data On Infant Mortality, Low Birthweight, Teenage Births Among Minorities
Two states recently released data on infant mortality, low birthweight rates and teenage births among minorities.
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Mortality, Low Birthweight Rates Among Infants In Alabama Linked To Lack Of Health Insurance
Report shows a link between birth outcomes and health insurance.
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Kansas Committee Reviews Enforcement Of Late-Term Abortion Law
The Kansas Special Committee on Federal and State Affairs on Friday held its first hearing examining enforcement of a 1998 law that regulates abortions after 21 weeks' gestation.
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Associated Press Examines People Forced To Undergo Abortions, Sterilizations
Associated Press Chinese government's regular but sometimes brutal intrusion into intimate family matters to enforce the country's one-child-per-family policy.
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Vatican Calls For Change In Abortion Law After Error Performed During Abortion
Vatican and some Italian legislators on Monday called for changing the country's abortion law.
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Scottish Cardinal Ends Amnesty International Membership Over New Abortion Policy
Scottish Cardinal will end his membership with Amnesty International because of the group's new policy that supports a woman's right to have an abortion under certain circumstances.
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Efforts To Expand Prenatal Care In Northern Virginia Counties Halted
Recent efforts to expand prenatal care for low-income or uninsured women in Loudoun and Prince William counties in Virginia have halted.
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Clinic Does Not Have To Provide All Minors' Abortion Records
Ohio District Court ruled that a Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region clinic does not have to provide all records of abortions given to women under 18.
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China Planning Stricter Sex-Selective Abortion Regulations
Chinese government plans to implement new regulations to ban sex-selective abortion in an effort to counter the widening gender imbalance.
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Maternal Mortality Rate In US Highest In Decades
The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is the highest it has been in decades.
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New Jersey Program To Boost Birth Outcomes Of Pregnant Black Women
New Jersey Chapter of the March of Dimes is launching a new program that seeks to improve the birth and health outcomes of pregnant black women.
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Temporary Injunction Requested Against Enforcing Missouri Abortion Law
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri would have to end abortion services at clinics in Columbia and Kansas City.
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Sex Determination Tests In India Fueling Rise In Sex-Selective Abortions
The widespread use of tests to determine the sex of a fetus in India are fueling an increase in sex-selective abortion.
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Hospitals Prohibit Vaginal Births After C-Sections
NPR reported on hospitals that are barring women who have had previous caesarean sections to have planned vaginal births.
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Amnesty International Affirms New Abortion Policy
Amnesty International affirmed a policy that supports a woman's right to have an abortion.
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New Jersey Abortion Clinics Do Not Receive Required Biennial Inspections
New Jersey health officials inspected only one of the six-state licensed abortion clinics in two years.
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Albany Region Prompts Concern Over Access To Abortion
Albany community health leaders are concerned about access to abortion in the region.
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Newborn Screening: New Technology Revives Old Controversy
About 4 million newborns in the United States undergo testing each year for phenylketonuria.
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Docs Promote Active Pregnancy Rather Than 'Delicate' Condition
The days of the delicate condition are over – for most pregnant women.
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Birth Rate In European Countries Increases
The birth rate in at least 16 European countries slightly increased from 2004 to 2006 after a 20-year decline.
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Umbilical cord clamping should be delayed, says expert
Umbilical cord clamping after child birth should be delayed for three minutes. At childbirth, he says, the umbilical cord sends oxygen-rich blood to the lungs until breathing establishes.
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Guidelines For Recommended Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Institute of Medicine to begin gathering scientific evidence to examine guidelines for how much weight pregnant women should gain
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Is ultrasound as useful as we think?
The usefulness of foetal 'nuchal thickness' as a technique for attempting to diagnose Down's syndrome in obstetric ultrasound is overstated and reliance on this surrogate marker may result in the 'loss' of normal babies.
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