Awoman miscarried in an emergency room toilet at Maitland
Hospital earlier this month, reprising a similar episode at Royal
North Shore Hospital in September 2007. Many newspaper reports
included gruesome, visceral detail, such as the fact the woman
found herself having to dispose of the foetus in the toilet.
The media outrage was predictable but there’s another sense in
which the reports were quite unusual. Reportage of these women’s
experiences Read the rest of this entry »
that found infants born via elective repeat Caesarean sections at around 37 weeks’ gestation — which is considered full term — were twice as likely to suffer complications as those born after 39 weeks’ gestation. In addition, the study — funded by the
— found that more than one-third of women who undergo elective c-sections chose to do so earlier than recommended medical guidelines. Alan Tita, lead author of the study and assistant professor Read the rest of this entry »
CHANTILLY, Va., Dec 01, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Apptis, Inc., a leading provider of IT and communications services to
the federal marketplace, today announced it has been awarded the
recompete of the $21 million contract, to support all six Designated
Providers (DPs) of the Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP).
Apptis has been the incumbent on this contract for the last 3 years
where it leads a development Read the rest of this entry »
At Tarwater Elementary, gone are the days when physical education meant focusing only on sports, such as kickball and such.
Now, physical ed means teaching kids about fitness, not only during their time in the gym, but how to stay active for a lifetime.
Observers point to data showing children have been putting on more pounds at younger ages.
The obesity rates among children from ages 6 to 11 more than doubled, increasing from 6.5 percent in Read the rest of this entry »
It was a powerful idea, and there was some intriguing early evidence suggesting that something as simple as popping vitamin D might hold off the number-one cancer killer among American women — breast cancer. So researchers were expecting to see positive results from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the first controlled trial of the effects of vitamin D on breast cancer.
Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. Reporting in the
Journal of Read the rest of this entry »
Social fabric at risk: Vote no on Prop. 8
Families and communities are stronger when people are allowed to form loving, committed marriages — with all their attendant rights and obligations (such as paying higher taxes through the “marriage penalty”). There is no difference between the commitment that my gay friends have to each other and the commitment that my husband and I have to each other. We are both raising families and contributing Read the rest of this entry »
The federal Food and Drug Administration is preparing a new statement on the safety of BPA that is expected to be completed this month.
BPA is the main ingredient in polycarbonate plastics found in drinking water bottles, food storage containers, the linings of food and beverage cans, eyeglass lenses and DVD cases.
Federal studies have found BPA in the urine of an estimated 93 percent of Americans. Several billion pounds of it are produced every Read the rest of this entry »
The Fresh Diet to Offer $29.99 a day Special for Black Friday
The Fresh Diet is heavily discounting their 31 Day Premium program for Black Friday savings. From midnight Thursday to midnight Friday, The Fresh Diet will offer their 31 Day Premium Fresh Diet program for $29.99 a day, a savings of $465.00. This offer will be good for new or current clients.
Surfside, FL (
) November 28, 2008 — The Fresh Diet is heavily discounting their 31 Day Read the rest of this entry »
Group Sex, Low Condom Use Spur Spread of HIV in Asian Gay Men
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — HIV is spreading rapidly among gay
and bisexual men in Asia, as group sex and low condom use make
male-to-male intimacies the region’s fastest-growing means of
transmitting the deadly human immunodeficiency virus, health
officials said.
New cases of HIV have surged in Asian cities such as
Bangkok, where more than 30 percent of gay and bisexual men now
have the Read the rest of this entry »
Emerging Biotech & Pharma Index: 36 More Cos.
November 23, 2008
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[web link to index stats & 36 Cos.]
The accompanying table [click to enlarge or download] includes the 36 remaining companies in the ETF Innovators [ETFI] Emerging Bio-Pharma Index with market caps between $150M-$1.5B, which were not included in the previous two articles I wrote about the group – featuring the
cutoff.
However, several of the companies included Read the rest of this entry »