Word: pregnant
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...Precious (Lee Daniels; in theaters 11/6) At 16, Precious (Gabourey Sidibe) is fat, illiterate and pregnant after being raped by her father. Her reclamation is a miracle, and so is this U.S. indie drama--the highest form of feel-good movie...
...pregnant woman who has ever cracked open a medicine cabinet is familiar with the warnings against using nearly every kind of medication, including those sold over the counter, from the moment of conception onward. Yet each year in the U.S., some 500,000 pregnant women battle psychiatric illness, cancer, autoimmune disease, influenza and other conditions that require treatment. Leaving aside for a moment the issue of whether the benefits of certain drugs outweigh the risks to the baby, what is the appropriate dosage for a mom-to-be? Given the shifts in her metabolism, how much she should take...
...event of an anthrax scare, for example, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that pregnant women take amoxicillin. But an obstetrics researcher in Seattle recently concluded there's no way to give a pregnant woman enough of the antibiotic to be effective. Kidney function is so revved up during pregnancy that even in high doses, amoxicillin is excreted before it can work its magic. Think of it as trying to fill a bathtub with the drain open, suggests Jason Umans, an internist and maternal-fetal pharmacologist at Georgetown University. "In emergencies, you always hear, 'Treat the pregnant women...
...Washington this spring to launch a movement they're calling the Second Wave of clinical research. (The first happened in the early '90s, when studies began to include large numbers of women.) A conclave of maternal-health advocates is now pushing for better information on how drugs affect pregnant women...
Because drugmakers now include women and, thanks to a 2003 law, children in appropriate drug studies, Second Wave organizers are hoping to push federal agencies to gather more data on pregnant women - what they're taking and with what effects - and draw more blood samples so doctors can prescribe an effective dosage rather than winging...