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Original Technorati articles tagged “mortality”

• in Technorati Women
  Calcium and Vitamin D — No Longer the Darlings of Women's Health
  A new panel recommendation seems to suggest that taking calcium and vitamin D may not help prevent osteoporosis.
  by jenna3967 / on Jun 12, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Sleeping Pills Linked to Increased Mortality
  A recent study suggests that using sleeping pills is associated with a higher mortality risk.
  by jenna3967 / on Mar 2, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  Panel Recommends Whooping Cough Vaccine for Adults
  A committee has issued guidelines recommending a whooping cough vaccine for adults over the age of 65.
  by jenna3967 / on Feb 23, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mortality”

 

• Do One Million Babies Need To Die On The Day They Are Born?

  
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  More than one million babies worldwide die on the day they are born according to Save the Childrens 14th annual State of the Worlds Mothers Report.
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• Fighting For Homebirth (Again)

  
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  By Tracy G. Cassels Thanks to someone on EP, I became aware of a new article being touted by anti-homebirth activists as being proof that homebirth is inherently dangerous.  The article, prepared by the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health [1] , provides a systematic review and meta-analysis of home ...
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• This Week in Misogyny: I Can’t Even

  
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  I just can’t with some of these stories this week. The Cleveland abduction is feminism’s fault? Beyoncé puts girls at risk of becoming sex slaves? Women have to work an extra 12 years to earn the same amount as men? Seriously?? (Trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.) According to MRAs,  feminism ...
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• What I’d really like for Mother’s Day this year

  
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  Marilyn (right) and her mother I’ve been a mom for 28 years now – and a daughter for a lot longer. At this point, I’d rather have time with my sons for Mother’s Day than the little handmade gifts they used to give me when they were little. And I know my own mom would appreciate the same from me. I also ...
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• INSTITUTE INDEX: Sequestering our mothers

  
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  The automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester will have a severe effect on programs serving women in general and mothers in particular -- especially those living in the South. With Mothers Day approaching, we take a by-the-numbers look. read more
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• This Mother’s Day, Give an Inspired Gift

  
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  This Sunday is Mother’s Day. But sadly, for many women around the world, the joy of motherhood is engulfed by tragedy. Maternal mortality is a major preventable cause of death, and UNICEF and partners are using simple, low-cost interventions to save pregnant women’s lives. One of the most effective tools is a ...
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• Shift in Goals Improves Treatment for Severe Anorexia

  
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  A new clinical trial has found that focusing on quality of life and enhanced social adjustment, rather than weight gain, improved results for patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa. Researchers report that more than 85 percent of patients enrolled in the trial completed treatment, which is almost three ...
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• Maternal and Child Health Programme Presentation

  
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  Maternal and Child Health is a core area of Sukarya’s work. Focuses on women and children as many women do not access healthcare even during childbirth. Through this program we reach millions of women, girls and children living in some of the most backward and underserved areas with easy to access and culturally ...
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• Child mortality declines in Asia — just not quickly enough

  
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  Author: Vinh Duc Nguyen, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences The infant and child mortality rate has declined remarkably in most countries since 1950. But despite worldwide efforts, the target laid down in the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) — to reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between ...
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• Your Last Day

  
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  Ten to Twenty Parenting Your Last Day We had a bit of a scare recently.  Ol’ Willie Wonka had to duck, dodge, and high tail it away from… the light!  I’m happy to report that he’s doing well and got a completely clean bill of health on Monday, after about 3 weeks of evading my old nemesis, the Grim ...
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• UK Healthcare Spending compared to Mortality Rate

  
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  The graph below shows the comparison between public and private spending on UK healthcare compared to the mortality rate between 1997 and 2011. Summary:  The latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics show that spending on healthcare slowed considerably between 2009 and 2011. However, this does ...
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• Lies, damn lies, and statistics — yet another report falsely claims America has the worst newborn survival rate in the industrial world

  
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  It’s the kind of headline that makes liberals start running around screaming “Socialized medicine!!  We need socialized medicine!”  There it is, at the Daily Mail :  “ U.S. is the most dangerous place in the industrialized world for newborns with more babies dying on their first day than in any other ...
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• Improving newborn mortality: report calls for improvements in care.

  
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  Better care at birth could save 1 million newborns lives around the world each year, report says. The U.S. leads the industrialized world in first-day newborn mortality.
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• What makes a country a good place to be a mother? | Debate of the day

  
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  Save the Children uses five indicators to rank the best and worst nations to be a mother. But tell us your criteria Mothering is in the news, again. A report out today reveals that the UK has failed to rank among the top 20 places in the world to be a mother . Finland, Sweden and Norway make the top three of Save ...
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• Save the Children mothers index: 10 worst countries in sub-Saharan Africa

  
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  Finland has lowest rates of mother and child mortality while US scores relatively poorly on maternal health The worst place in the world to give birth is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where a woman has a one in 30 chance of dying as a result – while the best is Finland, where the risk of death is one in ...
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• Alabama Lobbyist Who Had An Affair With Rob Riley Is At The Heart Of Debate Over "MedImmune Bill"

  
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  Liberty Duke An Alabama lobbyist who had an extramarital affair with prominent Republican Rob Riley is at the heart of a controversial bill that would increase the use of a drug for treatment of lung infections in premature infants. Liberty Duke, of Clanton, is a lobbyist for Maryland-based MedImmune, which ...
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• Renewable energy encourages safety for pregnant women in northeast Kenya

  
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  Abjata Khalif – WNN Features (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Sankuri village in the eastern Kenya region near the Indian Ocean is 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the nearest larger capital town of the province in Garissa. Known as a remote area that has poor phone communications with roads that are considered ...
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• Cute City: Singapore Tops Asian Baby Charts!

  
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  Tidy city-state is the best place in #Asia to be born, with just 0.5/000 first-day mortalities; #SG shares top spot with #Sweden , #Cyprus — Asad Yawar (@Mediolana) May 07, 2013 6.9 million children #CongoDR props up league table tinyurl.com/c6y82x2 #Parents — Asad Yawar (@Mediolana) May 07, 2013
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• Pediatric mortality no higher for weekend, night admissions

  
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  New research into emergency pediatric treatment finds children admitted into intensive care units on the weekend or at night are no more likely to die than those admitted during peak staffing periods. read more
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• Researchers Close In On Why Big Dogs Die Younger

  
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  There are always exceptions, but new research from the April issue of American Naturalist suggests that big dogs die younger. The reason for this is that they age quicker than dogs of other sizes. The study zeroed in on dogs because of the size variations in the species; there are many dogs on record, from [...]
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