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As rural hospitals struggle to stay financially stable, their leaders watch other small facilities close obstetrics units to cut costs. They face a no-win dilemma: Can we continue operating delivery units safely if there are few births? But if we close, do we risk the health and lives of babies and mothers? The other question […]
During over 3 hours of oral arguments on Monday, a seeming majority of Supreme Court justices appeared receptive to blocking a Texas law that essentially bans abortion after 6 weeks. They seemed less certain about whether the federal government — which is also challenging the law — was within its rights to sue Texas. Senate […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a law requiring that parents or guardians be notified when girls younger than 18 are seeking an abortion. Building on momentum among abortion-rights activists after September’s Texas “heartbeat” law banned most abortions, Democrats who control the General Assembly want to dump the 1995 law […]
Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock By Hope Campbell/Sept. 10, 2021 1:20 pm EDT When you think you may be pregnant, you often look for signs before a test could even turn positive, which typically happens when you’re closer to five or even six weeks pregnant. Every twinge you feel might make you believe you’re pregnant, but then you remember the […]
SIOUX FALLS, SD (AP) — A federal judge Friday ruled against South Dakota’s attempt to lift a decade-old injunction that nullified part of a state law requiring women to consult with a crisis pregnancy center before having an abortion. Planned Parenthood sued the state in 2011 after lawmakers passed a law requiring a three-day wait […]
LONDON (Reuters) – China’s largest gene company BGI Group must register its prenatal test with local regulators by Sept. 1 if it wants to keep offering products in Britain, a minister said on Thursday. A Reuters report (https://reut.rs/3Ckp1NW) found BGI Group developed the tests in collaboration with China’s military and uses them to collect genetic […]
Fifty-five chemicals never before reported in humans were found in pregnant women, according to a study from the University of California San Francisco. The chemicals likely come from consumer products or industrial sources, researchers say. Findings were published online in Environmental Science and Technology. Co-first authors Aolin Wang, PhD, and Dimitri Panagopoulos Abrahamsson, PhD, postdoctoral […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Routinely discontinuing oxytocin stimulation during active labor, and while electronic fetal monitoring is under way, significantly reduces the risks of uterine hyperstimulation and abnormal fetal heart rate, although it might lead to a small rise in C-sections, a clinical trial from Denmark shows. Four meta-analyses have suggested that labor continues […]
A 25-year-old woman from Mali gave birth to nine babies this week, which was two more than doctors has detected on ultrasounds while she was pregnant, according to the BBC. Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets — five girls and four boys — in Morocco. The Mali government flew her to Morocco for specialist […]
In certain circles of San Francisco, a case of syphilis can be as common and casual as the flu, to the point where Billy Lemon can't even remember how many times he's had it. "Three or four? Five times in my life?" he struggles to recall. "It does not seem like a big deal." At […]