A mom in Anne Arundel County is resting tonight after giving birth, but we’re not just talking about one.
This woman gave birth to five babies!!
ABC2 News Joce Sterman has details on the first set of quintuplets born in Maryland since 2005.
It’s the happy news every expectant parent wants to hear, times five.
And it came December 2nd as 28-year-old Adwai Malual welcomed four little girls and a little boy, each one weighing between two and Read the rest of this entry »
These drugs can work, but must be used with caution
IN THE 1990s the SSRIs seemed like such great drugs that pumping
them into drinking water began to look like a good idea. But in
recent years their credibility has taken a number of blows,
particularly where children are concerned.
The drugs have been associated with increased risk of suicidal
thinking in young people with depression, leaders in pediatric
psychiatry, such as Harvard Medical Read the rest of this entry »
NEW
DELHI: Wednesday’s action by the FDA is the second instance in less than three
years of it issuing a warning to Ranbaxy, while it is also under a separate
criminal probe by the US Justice Department for allegedly bringing adulterated
and misbranded medications into US.
“Today’s actions are clearly
warranted by the serious violations established by FDAs investigations at these
two sites”, said Deborah M Autor, director CDERs office of compliance Read the rest of this entry »
The economic downturn is causing people to shun the gym and turn to fitness videos at home to help them keep in shape. Sales figures for fitness DVDs discs rose dramatically during 2008 with 600,000 more sold compared with the previous year, an increase of 46 per cent according to figures released by the BVA today, using data provided by the Official Charts Company
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In contrast, a recent survey from Moneysupermarket.com shows that up to 56 per Read the rest of this entry »
A women’s health fair in Fairdale that was canceled last month because of bad weather has been rescheduled for Friday, Feb. 20.
It will be held from 8:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Church, 903 Fairdale Road.
Free mammograms will be available from the James Graham Brown Cancer for women ages 40 and older, and Norton Healthcare will conduct additional free screenings for diabetes, blood pressure and bone density.
For more Read the rest of this entry »
The Bush administration will likely finalize an HHS
regulation expanding provider conscience clause protections this week, but Obama staffers
are already looking at ways to undo the regulation,
. That regulation
is only one of many Bush-era policies harmful to women’s health that Obama will
address during his administration. The
Journal reports:
Decisions that the new administration will weigh include: whether to cut
funding for sexual abstinence Read the rest of this entry »
A Payson doctor pleaded guilty Tuesday to giving two female patients prescriptions in return for sex.
After months of negotiation between attorneys, Max Kent Cannon, 49, agreed to plead guilty to two counts of distributing a controlled substance, a third-degree felony, and two counts of prostitution, a class B misdemeanor. As part of the plea deal, eight more counts of the same charges were dismissed.
As part of the agreement, Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2008)
— For the first time, researchers have established a clear link between family rejection of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and negative health outcomes in early adulthood.
A new paper, authored by Caitlin Ryan, PhD, Director of the Family Acceptance Project and her team at the César E. Chávez Institute at San Francisco State University, shows that negative parental behaviors toward LGB children Read the rest of this entry »
“George Washington Hospital has been a leader and one of the early
adopters of digital imaging and Picture Archiving and Communications Systems
(PACS). While this technology has eliminated lost studies and made images
more readily and rapidly available to clinicians such as orthopaedic
surgeons, having leading edge tools such as TraumaCad for post-processing and
accurately planning complex procedures will be of great help to the busy
surgeon Read the rest of this entry »
Testimony of Jeff Almer, whose mother died of salmonella food poisoning, during a news conference with Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) this week:
My mother, Shirley Almer, had a lot of Sisu, which is what Finnish people call a person with spunk, fortitude and determination. That is why her death on Dec. 21, 2008 — from of all things, salmonella-contaminated peanut butter — came as such a shock to our family.
In May of 2007, Mom had a couple dime-sized Read the rest of this entry »