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...first trimester, rejected her doctor's advice to abort and had to petition a hospital ethics board - and undergo psychiatric evaluation - in order to get the medications she sought. "It was very frustrating," says Sosnader, 45, a logistics manager for Procter & Gamble in Worcester, Pa. "Everyone had their own opinion about what I should do, but there were no facts to support any of it." (See how the FDA classifies drugs and their effects on pregnancy...
...small by analyzing the amount of medication circulating in the bloodstream of pregnant women who are already taking prescription drugs out of necessity. A program launched in 2004 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is doing a few studies of this kind in four cities - Galveston, Texas; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Seattle; and D.C. - where flyers placed in obstetricians' offices seek pregnant women taking prescription drugs who are willing to stay in a hospital for at least 12 hours hooked up to an IV, ideally once a trimester. It takes a mighty altruistic person to volunteer for that. So far, fewer...
...years with the most personalized of approaches to governing. Questions remain about the use of the presidential aircraft to bring entertainers to Berlusconi's villa on Sardinia, and reports are circulating of additional racy shots in a series of photos recently published by the Spanish daily El País that showed naked and half-naked visitors inside the Prime Minister's island estate. Democratic Party leader Dario Franceschini, once considered a measured and somewhat soft-spoken figure, has found his voice in attacking Berlusconi's private behavior. Meanwhile, Di Pietro, in celebrating his party's doubling of its support...
...Last week, Berlusconi's lawyers succeeded in blocking publication of the photographs in Italy, arguing before a judge that publication of the photographs would constitute an invasion of privacy. That's where El País stepped in. The Spanish daily is one of several European newspapers - citing the control the PM has over large swaths of the Italian media - trying to keep the heat on Berlusconi. Giovanni De Mauro, editor of the Rome-based Internazionale weekly, says El País' decision to publish the photos is similar to British papers' printing of the details of parliamentary expenditures...
...País knew full well that the pictures would quickly make their way onto millions of computer screens in Italy and elsewhere. But in an editorial, its editors argued that "the publication of the photographs of [Belusconi's] private parties is not an attempt to judge his morality as an ordinary citizen, rather it aims to show how, as Prime Minister, he is trying to turn the realm of democratic politics into a simple continuation of his friendships and entertainment." The paper noted that prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the alleged use of the Prime Minister...