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...doctors are starting to rethink their approach to the problem of prematurity, which is defined as being born at least three weeks shy of a full 40-week term. Rather than focusing primarily on the care of the newborn, they are going back to the beginning of pregnancy and paying a lot more attention to the health of the mother...
...approach in action at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Medical Center in Lexington, one of six hospitals to be named this week as lead participants in a 3 1/2-year, $1.5 million joint project aimed at reducing preterm birth, sponsored by the March of Dimes and the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute...
Taking a cue from earlier interventions that singled out one factor or another and failed to make a dent in the problem, the March of Dimes is trying what medical director Dr. Nancy Green calls a "kitchen-sink approach." Much of its focus is on the nuts and bolts of a healthy pregnancy: screening for bacterial infections, watching for signs of domestic violence, discouraging alcohol consumption, encouraging smoking cessation (1 in 4 pregnant women in Kentucky smokes), monitoring weight gain and nutritional intake and, when necessary, giving drugs to prevent preterm labor. Weekly injections of a progesterone-based drug after...
...tension between the realist and idealist approach has long split the Republican Party between traditional conservatives and neocons. That will play itself out in the campaign of John McCain. On one shoulder, he has his close friends from the realist camp, such as Kissinger, Powell and Robert Zoellick. Perched on the other shoulder are more crusading neocons and "national greatness" theorists led by William Kristol, whose father Irving helped provide the intellectual underpinnings for a morality-based foreign policy a generation...
...American approach modeled on Haiti could be Digicel's downfall, says Yankee Group analyst Wally Swain. The U.S. is a viciously competitive market filled with deep-pocketed, giant competitors. "All they've faced before are sleepy incumbents," Swain says. "The U.S. is a different animal. They should stick with what they do well...