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David J. Jakus ’06, Nicholas P. Orenstein ’06, and Ezra J. Rapoport ’06 submitted a project that markets a wireless fetal heart monitor to the Peltier Business Plan Competition at the University of Texas at Tyler this week. The trio, along with James D. Moran ’05, established LONO Medical Systems and has designed the prototype for a small wireless device that can attach to an expectant mother’s abdomen during pregnancy...
...Talent Search winner and CEO of his own acoustic engineering firm LONO, Rapoport has earned his bragging rights. LONO, also run by Nicholas P. Orenstein ’05, David J. Jakus ’06, and James D. Moran ’05, is working on a wireless fetal heart monitor, a project which has put the team as the favored finalist in the Peltier Business Plan Competition in Texas. Even though inventing keeps him so busy, it’s become a way of life. When Rapoport could barely keep up with his packed schedule, he wrote...
...Grande. Missmer and her associates isolated fumonsin, a fungal toxin often found in American corn crops, as the likely cause of these infants’ cranial and spinal malformations. The study, conducted on mothers of babies born from the early 1990s to 2000, determined that overexposure to fumonsin inhibits fetal ability to absorb folic acid, a compound known to prevent NTDs. Co-author of the study, Lucina Suarez, who works with the Texas Department of State Health Services, said the implications of NTDs can be fatal. “With anencephaly, the cranium fails to close. This is a very...
...reveal that ?the procedure will terminate the life of a human being.? An epidemic of remorse and depression results. At the crisis pregnancy centers, nearly a third of women arrive considering having an abortion, but barely 2% go forward after they are counseled about the nature of fetal development. ?We do not know the cost to our society,? the report states, from ?the pain and anger resulting from abortion, but we fear it is far worse than what we are able to comprehend...
...Foundation found that states that have adopted laws regulating abortion experienced a larger decline than those that have not. Reductions are particularly steep, he found, in states that restricted the use of Medicaid funds to pay for poor women's abortions and those that required pre-abortion counseling about fetal development and abortion risks. (Lisa complied with that rule by phone...