Word: childbirth
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Women who have had a C-SECTION and then try but fail to deliver the next baby vaginally double their risk of suffering rare complications in childbirth. Among them: ruptured uterus and bowel lacerations...
...government says the number of deaths from PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH complications could be as many as 23.5 per 100,000 births--twice as high as previously reported...
...Nearly 600,000 women worldwide die each year in PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH, one-fifth more than previously estimated, finds the first comprehensive study in a decade. For each woman who dies, 30 others suffer serious pregnancy-related illnesses...
...usually self-insured firms, prefer to use the stick. Employees at E.A. Miller, a meat-packing unit of ConAgra in Hyrum, Utah, are charged extra for medical coverage if they smoke. They must also wear seat belts and, if they are pregnant, attend childbirth classes, or they could lose their insurance. It seems to work. Since the plan's inception in 1990, no employee has been killed in a car accident, and the number of premature births has dropped from three in a two-year period to just two in the past five years. "We want to teach employees...
...class chuckled at the comparison of football to childbirth, but the male insights are appreciated by the class, according to students...