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...According to a new March of Dimes report, all 50 states now require screening for at least 21 of a panel of 29 diseases - many of them rare but potentially debilitating or fatal - which means that 96% of the 4 million babies born each year in the U.S. are routinely tested...
...VBAC-lash? Not so long ago, doctors were actually encouraging women to have VBACs, which cost less than cesareans and allow mothers to heal more quickly. The risk of uterine rupture during VBAC is real--and can be fatal to both mom and baby--but rupture occurs in just 0.7% of cases. That's not an insignificant statistic, but the number of catastrophic cases is low; only 1 in 2,000 babies die or suffer brain damage as a result of oxygen deprivation...
...graduate of Radcliffe College and one of the world’s leading voices on human rights abuses in Rwanda, was one of 49 passengers killed in the crash of Continental Flight 3407 outside Buffalo Thursday night. Her death—part of the first fatal commercial airliner crash in the United States in more than two years—was confirmed by the New York-based non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch, where she worked for over two decades as a senior adviser in the Africa division. In a statement released on its Web site, Human Rights Watch praised...
...year was 11% for the general population, 1% for maternal cases, and 8% for children. "These [numbers] are not high," says James Kondo, president and vice chairman of Health Policy Institute, Japan, a Tokyo-based healthcare think-tank, "but when things go wrong in these areas, it could be fatal." The number of emergency transportation cases for Japan hit 4.92 million in 2007, and the number of serious emergency cases continues to increase. The problem of handling admission requests is particularly severe in urban areas, such as Tokyo and Osaka, which field about 85% of all ambulatory calls...
Sloan: I frankly think there is nothing that science can do that can contribute to religion, and I think it's a fatal flaw to think that you can use the methods of science to learn something meaningful about religion...