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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...
Cooking the Books Your report on this year's Bocuse d'Or chefs' competition in Lyons was most informative but with one glaring omission [Feb. 9]: Norway, the winner. Ingerid Bitustyl, RAULAND, NORWAY...
After 1980, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a conference on skyrocketing cesarean rates, more women began having VBACs. By 1996, they accounted for 28% of births among C-section veterans, and in 2000, the Federal Government issued its Healthy People 2010 report proposing a target VBAC rate of 37%. Yet as of 2006, only about 8% of births were VBACs, and the numbers continue to fall--even though 73% of women who go this route successfully deliver without needing an emergency cesarean...
...bill’s impact. In January, the Health Alliance announced a “major strategic and reconfiguration initiative” to cope with financial difficulties. The federal stimulus package will give Massachusetts anywhere from $1.7 to $3.1 billion in Medicaid funding, according to various reports. This comes as positive news to the Boston Medical Center, a “safety net” hospital that serves many Medicaid-eligible patients. Director of Communications Ellen Berlin said that she was “cautiously optimistic” about receiving more funding, and that she hoped that the BMC would...
...sworn affidavit with the House's impeachment panel chair, outlining multiple conversations he had in fact had with Blagojevich's brother and other of the governor's lieutenants, which included requests for him to raise cash. The Chicago Sun-Times first disclosed the inconsistencies in a weekend report. The paper then suggested Monday that Burris only came clean after being contacted about the matter by federal investigators, something Burris denied Monday as "absolutely, positively not true." (See the Top 10 Scandals...