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New Laws Affecting California Employers
A number of new laws affecting employers took effect on January 1, 2012. Learn more about them and how employees may be affected as well.
Houston has more large birth-weight babies
Americans shared a collective jaw drop when JaMichael Brown of Longview, Texas, came into the world last summer weighing a whopping 16 pounds.
'Morning-After' Pill May Be New Option to Treat Painful Fibroids
WEDNESDAY Feb. 1, 2012 -- The morning-after pill may help shrink painful fibroids and relieve excessive bleeding, new research indicates.
Beyonce and JayZ are not the first parents to choose a baby name that is a color, but baby Blue Ivy might be one of the most recent ones to be well known.
More Women Choosing To Have Their Babies At Home
Despite a decrease in home births between 1990 and 2004, the number of home births actually increased between 2004 and 2009 by 29%, an upturn of 0.56% in 2004, to 0.72% in 2009.
Historically speaking, home birth was were the vast majority of babies were born prior to the 1900s.
Columbia Labs Shares Are A Speculative Buy Here
Shares of Columbia Laboratories once again took a beating yesterday, cut by more than half, after a negative 13-4 vote by the FDA Advisory Committee on Friday after-hours, recommending against approving its progesterone vaginal gel 8% Prochieve in reducing the risk of pre-term birth in women with a single gestation and a short uterine cervical ... (more)
Worried About No Pregnancy Symptoms?
We spend a lot of time talking about pregnancy symptoms . What they are, what they mean and how to deal with them.
Hunt for thousands of women left at risk from 'silent Thalidomide'...
'Silent Thalidomide': Thousands of mothers and their daughters at risk of cancer from anti-miscarriage drugs they took decades ago Thousands of women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES are unaware they are at greater risk of a number of cancers, according to experts.
Lawyer hunts for UK 'DES daughters'
Women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES will be encouraged to seek compensation as it has been linked to certain cancers.
What a Newborn Baby Looks Like
You're probably looking very forward to the day that your baby is born. You've been imagining it for months.
Welcome to 2012 - a Leap Year! That means that at the end of February, we'll get a whole extra day, February 29th.
Risk factors of surgical evacuation following second-trimester medical termination of pregnancy.
BACKGROUND: Second-trimester medical termination of pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of surgical evacuation than earlier medical TOP.
More pregnancy highs than lows
A new Canadian study suggests smoking marijuana while pregnant is an effective way to combat morning sickness, though researchers note the findings are far from conclusive.
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