Report: Doctors Refusing to Treat Overweight Patients
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Fifteen obstetrics-gynecology practices out of 105 polled by the Sun Sentinel said they have set weight limits for new patients. Some of the doctors said the main reason was their exam tables or other equipment can't handle people over a certain weight, but at least six said heavy women run a higher risk of complications. "People don't realize the risk we're taking by taking care of these patients," the newspaper quoted Dr. Albert Triana of South Miami as saying. "There's more risk of something going wrong and more risk of getting sued. Everything is more...
Osteopathic care may ease late-pregnancy back pain
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Gentle manipulation from an osteopathic doctor may relieve late-pregnancy back pain that frequently hinders bending, lifting, or walking, findings from a small study hint. Doctors in osteopathic medicine (DOs) are medical doctors additionally trained in gentle manipulative techniques to help restore function, range of motion, and lessen pain in bones and adjoining muscles supporting the neck, back, chest, shoulders, and hips. Osteopathic manipulation may particularly benefit pregnant women seeking medication-free back pain relief, note Dr. John C. Licciardone and colleagues at University of Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. The study, in the American... |
Obit: Maria del Carmen Bousada (became a mom at 66)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| MADRID (AP) — A Spanish woman believed to have become the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth at 66 has died at 69, leaving behind twin toddlers, newspapers reported Wednesday. Maria del Carmen Bousada, who reportedly died Saturday, gave birth in December 2006 as a single mother after getting in vitro fertilization treatment at a clinic in Los Angeles. The births ignited a firestorm of debate over how old is too old for a new mother, and how much responsibility fertility clinics have over who gets treatments. Bousada told an interviewer she lied to the fertility clinic about... |
Infant Son of State Treasurer Martin Has Died
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Austin Michael Wright died Wednesday night, two days after Dean Martin's wife Kerry died after complications from childbirth. |
Man Helps Wife Deliver Baby With YouTube's Help
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| In what is claimed to be the world's first, a 28-year-old man has helped his wife deliver a baby successfully with online assistance from a popular video- sharing site. Marc Stephens delivered his baby son after watching ‘Do It Yourself’ baby birth video clips on YouTube on March 21, The Daily Telegraph reported. The naval engineer, who already has three children with his wife Jo, also 28, decided to search the internet as she felt some discomfort. Four hours later, when Jo went into sudden labour and the couple was told by hospital staff that no midwife was available, he... |
Man Claims He's Pregnant (Video)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Showbiz Tonight's Brooke Anderson reports a transgendered man claims he is six months pregnant. |
US Health Secretary: Refusing Certification to Docs Who Refuse to Refer for Abortion is Illegal
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| WASHINGTON, DC, March 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt today expressed disappointment in a new policy put forth by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ( ACOG ) which mandates that doctors refer for abortions. He also called on the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology ( ABOG ) to reject this policy and protect the conscience rights of physicians. In a letter sent to ABOG Executive Director Dr. Norman Grant today asking for clarification, Secretary Leavitt notes, "It appears that the interaction of the [ABOG Bulletin for 2008 Maintenance of Certification] with the... |
Pregnant woman uses train toilet, baby slips out
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday. "My delivery was so sudden," said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months prematurely. "I did not even realize that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet." Kalbi, a 33-year-old woman from a village in Rajasthan, fainted on the toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and alerting her family.... |
Unassisted Homebirth Pioneer Lynn Griesemer on PBS
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Childbirth author Lynn M. Griesemer will be featured on PBS's TO THE CONTRARY during the week of October 19th. TO THE CONTRARY, carried on 260 stations across the U.S. is viewed by over 1 million people. The topic will be childbirth / unassisted homebirth. |
Lesbian Couple Sue IVF Doctor for Cost of Raising Twin
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Lesbian Couple Sue IVF Doctor for Cost of Raising Twin Couple wanted only one child and find they are "overwhelmed" raising two children By Meg Jalsevac AUSTRALIA, September 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A lesbian couple in Australia have taken the first 'wrongful birth' lawsuit in Australian legislative history to court. The two women, who have three year old twin daughters, are suing Canberra obstetrician, Robert Armellin, for 'wrongful birth' after he supervised the implantation of two embryos instead of one into the birth mother during the in-vitro fertilization procedure. The women, who cannot be named because of a court order,... |
Down syndrome dangers: A new prenatal policy is the worst kind of social engineering
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Every year we look forward to Doug volunteering at family retreats that we hold for disabled children and their moms and dads. He is young and athletic, a senior in college, handsome, articulate, and intelligent. The kids love him (and so do a few girl volunteers). When he first began volunteering, we assigned Doug to a little boy with Down syndrome. The two hit it off wonderfully. This energetic young man possessed a knack for relating to the boy; from that year onward, he always asked to be assigned to children with Down syndrome and their parents. Recently Doug said,... |
160 Healthy Babies Lost for Every 50 Down’s Cases Detected with Amniocentesis
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| 160 Healthy Babies Lost for Every 50 Down’s Cases Detected with Amniocentesis By Hilary White LONDON, August 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The risks of amniocentesis to the unborn child have long been known but now a new analysis by a British doctor has shown that using the tests in seek-and-destroy missions for Down's syndrome and other genetic abnormalities results in the deaths of hundreds of healthy babies every year in Britain. Dr. Hylton Meire, the retired physician and author of texts on ultrasound, calculates that for every 50 children with Down's Syndrome successfully identified and killed by abortion, 160 non-affected... |
Do-It-Yourself Delivery
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Despite Risks That Range From Fetal Distress to Hemorrhage, Some Women Are Choosing to Give Birth Without Medical Assistance |
New York’s Schools for Pregnant Girls Will Close (NYC)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| A dozen girls, some perched awkwardly with their pregnant bellies flush against the desks, were struggling over a high school geometry assignment on a recent afternoon. No pencils, no textbooks, no Pythagorean theorem. Instead, they sewed quilts. That is what passes for math in one of New York City’s four high schools for pregnant girls, this one in Harlem. “It ties into geometry,” said Patricia Martin, the principal. “They’re cutting shapes.” Created in the 1960s, when pregnant girls were such pariahs that they were forced to leave school until their babies were born, the city school system’s four pregnancy schools... |
AIDS Drug to Protect Fetus Is Safe for Infected Mothers, Study Finds
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Women can take the anti-AIDS drug nevirapine to protect their unborn children without endangering their ability to undergo life-saving antiretroviral treatment later on, a new study has found. The results are good news for poor women in Africa, Asia and Latin America who must take nevirapine, an inexpensive first-line drug that often prevents the transmission of H.I.V. from mother to child. The drug lingers in the blood up to three weeks, and if the mother has the virus that causes AIDS, its presence encourages the growth of nevirapine-resistant strains. That has led to fears that any antiretroviral drug cocktail containing... |
That Prenatal Visit May Be Months Too Late (Gov't says)
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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For years, women have had it drummed into them that prenatal care is the key to having a healthy baby, and that they should see a doctor as soon as they know they are pregnant. But by then, it may already be too late. Public health officials are now encouraging women to make sure they are in optimal health well in advance of a pregnancy to reduce the risk of preventable birth defects and complications. They have recast the message to emphasize not only prenatal care, as they did in the past, but also what they are calling “preconception care.”...
Delivery Rooms Vanishing for Philadelphia Mothers
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Earlier this month... a major hospital in Northeast Philadelphia that used to deliver 1600 babies a year.... closed its maternity ward Health reporter Anita Brikman says this is part of trend that some call a "crisis" which could put mothers and babies at risk. The Chancey family is celebrating the birth of their first baby girl.... Alexis Paige. Mom Kelly delivered her two older brothers at Frankford Torresdale Hospital. But is now at Holy Redeemer Hospital because Frankford Torresdale got out of the baby-delivering business. Kelly Chancey, Northeast Philadelphia.Yeah, it was a little inconvenient. Doctors appointments go from monthly to... |
Study Debunks Myth that Sex Hastens Labor
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| A new study debunks the notion that having sex in the final weeks of pregnancy makes labor start sooner.Researchers at Ohio State University Medical Center studied 93 women in their final three weeks of pregnancy. When all was said and done, those who were sexually active had carried their babies an average of 39.9 weeks. Women who abstained, for whatever reason, deliver at 39.3 weeks on average."Patients may continue to hear the 'old wives' tale' that intercourse will hasten labor, but according to this data, they should not hear it from the medical community," said obstetrician Jonathan Schaffir.The results are... |
Obstetrical Sonography: The Best Way to Terrify a Pregnant Woman
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| <p>Roy A. Filly, M.D.</p> <p>I have just reached the 30th anniversary of the first obstetrical sonogram I performed. Even having witnessed each of the technological advancements in sonography over those three decades, it is still difficult to comprehend the enormous improvements in image quality that have occurred. These improvements have brought sonography from a “promising” diagnostic tool to a mainstay of modern imaging. However, nowhere in medicine has this technique had a more profound impact than in the field of obstetrics. Thirty years ago there was essentially no such thing as obstetrical imaging and prenatal diagnosis was in its infancy.</p> |
Birthing rights
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Kim James was 17 when she first learned what a midwife does. Though she still can’t place her finger on it, she knew it was what she wanted to be. “It is something that always interested me, and I am not sure why,” she said. “It’s not lucrative, the hours are terrible and most of the work is done in the middle of the night. “But,” she adds, “it is extremely rewarding work.” James began working in 1989 at Cherche La Femme, Columbia’s first birthing center. The center was co-founded by a certified nurse-midwife, Sharon Lee; a physician, Elizabeth Allemann;... |
Doctors in trouble for not giving man cervical smear By Celia Hall, Medical Editor
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| A family doctor has been summoned to a formal hearing over his refusal to put a 34-year-old male patient on the list for screening for cervical cancer. |
This is going to disappoint some people
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pregnant women coached through their first delivery do not fare much better than those who just do what feels natural, according to a study released on Friday. Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern found that women who were told to push 10 minutes for every contraction gave birth 13 minutes faster than those who were not given specific instructions. But they said the difference has little impact on the overall birth, which experts say can take up to 14 hours on average. "There were no other findings to show that coaching or not coaching was advantageous... |
Putting off childbirth defies nature, claim doctors
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Women should have a family first - before they are 35 - and leave their career until later, a group of leading doctors said yesterday. The obstetricians and gynaecologists said the increasing number of women delaying having children were defying nature and risking heartbreak. Writing in the British Medical Journal, they recommended that if women wanted families and a career, they should have children earlier, and called for more support for younger mothers. Women's groups voiced caution over putting a deadline on childbirth but agreed on the need for more support. Susan Bewley, consultant obstetrician at St Thomas' Hospital in... |
Battle lines drawn over C-sections
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| <p>For some women, birth has become the latest battleground for reproductive rights.</p> <p>At a growing number of hospitals, women are being forced to schedule a repeat cesarean section just because they already had one. Doctors and hospitals say they fear lawsuits if they allow a patient to attempt a vaginal birth after a C-section - called a VBAC - and something goes awry.</p> |
Study Finds 29-Week Fetuses Probably Feel No Pain and Need No Abortion Anesthesia
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 02:54:20 PM
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| Taking on one of the most highly charged questions in the abortion debate, a team of doctors has concluded that fetuses probably cannot feel pain in the first six months of gestation and therefore do not need anesthesia during abortions. Their report, being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association, is based on a review of several hundred scientific papers, and it says that nerve connections in the brain are unlikely to have developed enough for the fetus to feel pain before 29 weeks. The finding poses a direct challenge to proposed federal and state laws that... |
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