Tag: mother
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Funding to combat Zika fails to advance in Senate
Funding to battle the Zika virus failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, as Democrats blocked a Republican proposal that they said would short-change the challenge posed by the mosquito-borne virus as well as other health priorities. The proposal to provide $1.1 billion in funding, which has already passed the Republican-controlled House of…
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Patients greeted by robot at Belgian hospital
By Judith Mischke OSTEND, Belgium (Reuters) – A Belgian hospital has just welcomed its newest staff member: Pepper, a humanoid robot that speaks 19 languages. Developed to improve social and health care by the Belgian company Zora Bots, Pepper joined the medical team as a receptionist at Ostend hospital AZ Damiaan. Pepper will introduce visitors…
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Faced with strict laws, Brazilian women keep abortions secret
By Sophie Davies RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Years after giving into family pressure and having an illegal abortion, one Brazilian woman says she is haunted by the secret procedure so taboo that hardly anyone will talk about it. The woman, who only wants to be identified as F.D., went to a clinic…
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This Mother’s Day, I’m Making a Pact to Avoid the "Who’s Busier" Trap
I am busy. I am busy like so many typical working moms who shuttle two young kids from school to practice while juggling everything around the house and overseeing a successful, growing business. Some days feel like an endless cycle of places to be and things to get done.And I know I'm not alone.It seems…
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Boy tests positive for Ebola in latest Liberia flare-up
A five-year-old boy tested positive for Ebola in Liberia just days after his mother died of the virus in the second flare-up to hit West Africa in recent weeks, the health ministry said on Sunday. A 30-year-old woman died of Ebola in Monrovia last week, months after Liberia was declared free of the virus. “A…
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Mass killer Breivik gives Nazi salute as he sues Norway for ‘inhuman treatment’
By Gwladys Fouche SKIEN, Norway (Reuters) – Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik opened a court case against Norway on Tuesday with a Nazi salute as his lawyers prepared to argue he has received inhuman treatment by being kept in isolation for murdering 77 people in 2011. Appearing in public for the first time since he…