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...pregnant woman who has ever cracked open a medicine cabinet is familiar with the warnings against using nearly every kind of medication, including those sold over the counter, from the moment of conception onward. Yet each year in the U.S., some 500,000 pregnant women battle psychiatric illness, cancer, autoimmune disease, influenza and other conditions that require treatment. Leaving aside for a moment the issue of whether the benefits of certain drugs outweigh the risks to the baby, what is the appropriate dosage for a mom-to-be? Given the shifts in her metabolism, how much she should take...
...impact could be most painful of all. Labour lost control of all four of its remaining county councils in local elections also held last Thursday. And as a string of disillusioned Ministers rushed for the exits in the days on either side of the poll, Brown even bungled a Cabinet reshuffle designed to reassert his authority. Trailing in third in the European elections leaves the PM "beaten by a party that he mocked and derided as being on the fringes," said UKIP leader Nigel Farage. "So if we have beaten...
...Rivals on both the left and right have noted that the result still means more than 70% of voters backed parties hostile to Sarkozy and his Cabinet. True, but it brings little comfort to the crowded landscape of government opponents - especially the Socialist Party (PS), whose position as the left's leading political force is now in question. The faction-riven Socialists won just 16.5%, far short of the 28.9% it won in European elections in 2004 and dangerously close to its worst showing ever...
...first person appointed to the Cabinet after having won a Nobel Prize. He comes after a long line of former Commencement speakers who served on the Cabinet, including Robert E. Rubin, Madeleine Albright, and Cyrus Roberts...
...prevail. Labour dissidents want to oust Brown well before elections are called. Support has been steadily coalescing around Health Secretary Alan Johnson as his replacement, but there are other contenders too. If Labour performs even worse than expected in Thursday's polls or Brown attempts to dislodge a Cabinet minister who's not prepared to go quietly, a fresh insurrection could be triggered. "I'll be amazed if [Brown] survives this," says a Labour insider. "But I've been amazed before...