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...hired a national sales team. Dads are also getting in on the act. Mike Gatten projects up to $3 million in sales this year for his Miracle Blanket, designed in desperation to calm a colicky infant. Rosie Herman, of Tomball, Texas, worked 15 years as a manicurist before giving birth to twin girls and then noticing that the tasks of motherhood were drying out her hands (imagine changing a dozen diapers a day). She cooked up an exfoliating, moisturizing formula in her kitchen, then juggled eight credit cards and even resorted to bartering to get her One Minute Manicure business...
Kelli's tale is no longer unusual. According to Dr. Marc Bulterys of the HIV/AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, advances in medicine have made childbearing much safer for the 6,000 to 7,000 HIV-infected women who give birth each year in the U.S. In the mid-1990s, treatments to prevent infant HIV infection were only 60% to 70% effective. Today, when a woman is identified as HIV positive before or very early in pregnancy and is treated appropriately, the risk of her baby's being infected is less than...
Although there are as yet no long-term studies of children who have undergone the treatment, the benefits appear to greatly outweigh the risks. According to the CDC, antiretroviral-drug therapy can lead to premature birth or mitochondrial misfunction, a lethal defect, but such problems are extremely rare...
Women who give birth before age 20 halve their risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study. A hormone produced during pregnancy seems to provide lifetime protection. --By Coco Masters
However, as DJ Spooky’s show at Sanders Theatre last month demonstrated, VJs aren’t limited to psychedelic wankery, but can create unique politically charged artistic statements. In Sanders, Spooky juxtaposed a live remix of the Ku Klux Klan epic “Birth of a Nation” with his own orchestrated hip-hop beats...