ScienceDaily (Jan. 13, 2009)
— Introduced in the 1960s, oral contraceptives have been used by about 80 percent of women in the United States at some point in their lives. For women without pre-existing risks for heart disease, the early formulations were generally safe, and the newer ones appear to be even safer, but all the risks and benefits are yet to be established, especially as women’s lifestyles change and new forms of contraceptives Read the rest of this entry »

HealthCare Pharmaceuticals has just introduced a new $20 million advertising campaign for Yaz, the most popular
pill in the United States.
But the television ads, now running during prime-time shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and on cable networks, are not typical spots promoting the benefits of a prescription drug. Instead, they warn that nobody should take Yaz hoping that it will also cure
.
As part of an unusual crackdown Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (AP) — With health care costs high on the national agenda, advocates of home births are challenging the medical and political establishments to give midwives a larger role in maternity care and to ease the state laws that limit their out-of-hospital practice.
Pending bills to further this goal have significant backing in several states, which home-birth supporters want to add to the 25 states that already have taken such steps.
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BELLFLOWER — A woman gave birth Monday to eight babies in a span of five minutes, only the second time in history live octuplets have been born, doctors said.
The mother, who has not been identified, gave birth to six boys and two girls weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces, and 3 pounds, 4 ounces, doctors at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center told The Associated Press.
The hospital had scheduled a Caesarean section for seven babies, but doctors Read the rest of this entry »

British Ice Skating Star Gives Birth Two Days After Collapsing, Dying
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
A British ice skating star miraculously gave birth to a daughter — two days after she was declared brain dead.
Jayne Soliman’s heart was kept beating until doctors delivered her baby daughter, Aya Jayne las week.
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Soliman, 41, was kept on life support just long enough for her little girl to be delivered by Caesarean section after collapsing Read the rest of this entry »

received fertility treatments in order to conceive the babies, infertility specialists told the
that they question whether enough was done to prevent such a risky pregnancy. Chances are very small that the babies were conceived naturally, experts said, and reproductive-medicine specialists have the expertise to avoid high-risk pregnancies such as this one. The octuplets—two girls and six boys—were born via cesarean section about 9 weeks Read the rest of this entry »

The Best Nutrition for the New Baby/w birth 3D animation.
Have scientists improved on the Creator’s built-in method of feeding infants? Hardly. UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) states:
alone is the best possible food and drink for babies in the first four to six months of life.” Breast milk contains all the proteins, growth stimulants, fats, carbohydrates, enzymes, vitamins, and trace elements that are vital to an infant’s Read the rest of this entry »

HealthCare Pharmaceuticals has just introduced a new $20 million advertising campaign for Yaz, the most popular
pill in the United States.
But the television ads, now running during prime-time shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and on cable networks, are not typical spots promoting the benefits of a prescription drug. Instead, they warn that nobody should take Yaz hoping that it will also cure
.
As part of an unusual crackdown Read the rest of this entry »

Gift cards for birth control? Foes say bah humbug!
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Christmas for many is the season of giving. At Planned Parenthood of Indiana, it’s about giving the gift of health care and contraception.
The network of 35 health centers across Indiana has begun offering holiday gift certificates for basic health care services “or the recipient’s choice of birth control method,” it announced this week.
Nearly 800,000 Indiana residents Read the rest of this entry »

at some point in their lives since the birth control pill’s introduction in the 1960s. But while this form of birth control has made life easier in many ways for women, big questions remain about its safety, especially among women at elevated risk of
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spells out what we know about oral contraceptives’ safety — and how much remains unclear.
Frankly, I find it shocking. After close to half a century of the pill’s use, those gaps in knowledge Read the rest of this entry »