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...More pregnant women and other Americans in need of medical care are getting the same cold shoulder at hospitals and doctors' offices from Pennsylvania to Oregon, which are limiting their case loads--or going out of business--because of the high cost of insurance. Malpractice insurers have been hit by several years of soaring jury awards, even as the slumping stock market has ended the fat returns they used to get from investing premiums. As insurers try to make up for their losses by sharply raising rates, medical facilities are shuttering wards and doctors are dropping high-risk practice areas...
...been transferred out of state. But complications have forced Gromny to visit specialists, and many specialists have also posted signs in their offices warning that the insurance crisis might force them to close their doors. "I'm constantly worried about what could happen," says Gromny. "When you're pregnant, the last thing you want to have to worry about is your doctor...
VOLCANOES OF ANOTHER COLOR My first glimpse of Keli Mutu was out the plane window. The pilot banked and circled so we could get a bird's-eye view of the strangest and most famous volcano on Flores. It squatted above the surrounding hills like some amorphous ogre, pregnant with menace, glaring up with three vast, unblinking eyes. The colors looked so unnatural that at first I thought I was peering into tailing ponds filled with toxic sludge from a large mining operation. Then the pilot informed us we were looking at the crater lakes of Keli Mutu, or "burning...
...findings give little encouragement for the use of vitamin A supplements in HIV-positive pregnant women,” said Wafaie Fawzi, lead author of the study and associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH...
HSPH researchers cooperated with Muhimbili University College of Health Services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to randomly assign 1,000 HIV-infected pregnant women in Tanzania to groups taking either vitamin A, multivitamins excluding A and including B, C, and E, multivitamins including A, or a placebo...