Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Health News
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, nearly 37,000 pregnant Haitian women face difficulties securing food, clean drinking water and access to health services, according to Frank Geneus, the director of health programs in Haiti for CARE, the Washington Post reports. Nearly 10,000 of those women may give birth in the next month…
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Health News
“As president of the G-8 in 2010, Canada will champion a major initiative to improve the health of women and children in the world’s poorest regions,” Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper writes in a Toronto Star editorial…
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Clean Water Needs To Be Priority For Haiti “Long before the earthquake, Haiti was mired in a crisis that only a few experts noticed - a severe lack of clean drinking water,” writes Joseph Treaster, editor of the University of Miami’s Internet magazine on global water issues and the environment, [...]
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Posted on January 29th, 2010 by Health News
As campaigns get under way for elections this spring and fall, many media outlets are examining the policy positions of incumbents and their challengers, including where they stand on reproductive rights and related issues. The following summarizes recent media coverage of races in Pennsylvania and New York. ~ Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa…
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Lessons From Massachusetts: Campaigning Beats Governing Into Submission, Again Kaiser Health News Our mistake was to believe that rank-and-file members of Congress shared their leaders’ interest in governing (Austin Frakt and Steve Pizer, 1/28)…
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U.S. To Support Agricultural Technology Projects In Pakistan Bryan Hunt, the U.S. consulate general in Lahore, Pakistan, said Wednesday that the U.S. would help Pakistan with the development of agriculture technology aimed at boosting farmers’ productivity, the Nation reports. Hunt said agriculture technology is vital for increasing food security. “He [...]
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The risk for heart-related death is increasing in young adults ages 35 to 54, and the numbers are even more alarming for younger women. It is the number-one cause of death for both men and women in the United States, yet every year since 1984 more women have died of cardiovascular health problems than men, [...]
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In a recent interview with Roll Call, outgoing EMILY’s List President Ellen Malcolm reflected on victories and setbacks in her tenure with the group, which grew from its founding in her basement in 1985 to the “pre-eminent women’s group in politics…
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Legal, ethical and medical debates have erupted over a Florida case in which a pregnant woman was forced under court order to stay in the hospital against her wishes, the St. Petersburg Times reports. In March 2009, Samantha Burton checked in to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for what appeared to be premature labor and was order [...]
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Common flame-retardant chemicals called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, appear to be linked to reduced fertility in women, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the Los Angeles Times reports. The chemicals, which have been used for more than four decades, are found in foam furniture, electronics, fabrics, carpets and [...]
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