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...risks of ectopic pregnancy and placenta previa or accreta (an abnormally located placenta, which may cause bleeding and other complications). And because many doctors will not permit a woman to undergo natural childbirth once she has had a cesarean - because the uterine scar may rupture during labor with potentially dire consequences - it is likely that her subsequent children will also be surgically delivered, multiplying all of these risk factors each time. "If there is no medical reason to have a C-section, we would advise [women] to have a vaginal delivery," says Professor Tan Kok Hian of KK Women...
Although the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a hospital system affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is in dire financial straits and looking to eliminate up to 300 jobs next year, third-year medical students who are enrolled in the alliance’s hospital-training program will not be affected, officials said. The CHA acknowledge this week that Massachusetts’ pioneering health care reform law has left it with the burden of treating patients without insurance, but without providing adequate reimbursements to the alliance. The CHA has freezed hiring and cut discretionary spending to curb its losses. Still...
...difficult to draw any clear lessons from the case of Hannah Poling, other than the dire need for more research. One plausible conclusion is that pediatricians should avoid giving small children a large number of vaccines at once, even if they are thimerosal-free. Young children have an immature immune system that's ill-equipped to handle an overload, says Dr. Judy Van de Water, an immunologist who works with Pessah at U.C. Davis. "Some vaccines, such as those aimed at viral infections, are designed to ramp up the immune system at warp speed," she says. "They are designed...
...most dire conditions will be alleviated regardless of residents’ class years, he added...
...those aren't from Doble. From what Sven and I saw, Doble itself, like much of Africa and Arabia, is a place full of hospitable villagers struggling to survive amid what the U.N. says has now overtaken Darfur as Africa's worst humanitarian disaster, with 1.8 million people in dire need of assistance. And if drought, starvation and disease weren't enough, they now find themselves on the latest battleground in a global war between the U.S. and al-Qaeda. The victims of Monday's missile strike, say the villagers of Doble, were not the militants they fear, but four...