Tag: birth
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Doctors should offer women birth control right after babies arrive
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women should have the chance to get long-acting birth control like intrauterine devices (IUDs) before they leave the hospital with a new baby, a leading group of U.S. obstetricians recommends. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has long advocated that women have access to IUDs and contraceptive…
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Why the Zika virus is causing alarm
Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has spread to many countries in the Americas. Zika is transmitted to people through the bite of infected female mosquitoes, primarily the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same type that spreads dengue, chikungunya and…
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Premature Birth Could Impact Fitness Later In Life
(Reuters Health) – Young adults who were born prematurely may have weaker muscles than their peers born at full term, a Finnish study suggests.These young adults born preterm also considered themselves less physically fit, even though the study didn’t find their cardiorespiratory fitness levels to be much different than people who weren’t…
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Oxley, co-author of landmark U.S. anti-fraud law, dies at 71
Former U.S. Representative Mike Oxley, a 12-term Republican congressman from Ohio who co-sponsored a landmark 2002 law to fight corporate fraud, died on Friday at the age of 71, officials said. “Mike personified a true public servant who loved serving his constituents, Ohio, and the United States of America,” Oxley's successor in Congress, Representative Bob…
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How To Hack Your New Year’s Resolution For Success
I've never liked the words “objective” or “goal.” Perhaps my distaste for such terms can be traced back to elementary school, where the teacher would write the word “objective” on the blackboard in giant letters. Then, we had to talk about why we were doing what we were going to do that day. Why didn't…