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Published: 14 May 2012

Nearly half the world’s babies are born at home. We sought to evaluate the training, knowledge, skills, and access to medical equipment and testing for home birth attendants across 7 international sites.

Face-to-face interviews were done by trained interviewers to assess level of training, knowledge and practices regarding care during the antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum periods. The survey was administered to a sample of birth attendants conducting home or outof- facility deliveries in 7 sites in 6 countries (India, Pakistan, Guatemala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Zambia).

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Arthritis, which can wreak havoc on the joints, causes a constellation of symptoms. Some individuals have just mild joint pain, while others find that their ability to walk, drive, or even do household tasks is compromised. Osteoarthritis, the more common form of arthritis, is characterized by the breakdown of cartilage, the part of the joint that permits easy movement. It causes pain and stiffness but fortunately, there are effective treatments that range from getting more exercise to using analgesics and topical pain relievers.  Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, autoimmune disease that affects many different joints and can damage cartilage, ligaments, and tendons.

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I feel so full and overwhelmed with stuff I want to tell you about!! I guess as everything feels a lot faster our lessons are getting faster too and Im having a lot of trouble keeping up. Last night I discovered a new great way to help to keep my mind a little more still during these times. More in the video

“While the battle against HIV/AIDS attracts more donor funding globally than all other diseases combined, it has not diverted attention from fighting unrelated afflictions — such as malaria, measles and malnutrition — and may be improving health services overall in targeted countries, according to a study on Rwanda published” Wednesday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, an American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) press release reports. “

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BIOLASE Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI), the World’s leading dental laser manufacturer and distributor, today announced that management is scheduled to make investor presentations at three upcoming investment conferences.

The first conference will be Security Research Associates’ 8^th Annual Spring Growth Stock Conference on Tuesday, May 15, during which CFO and COO Frederick Furry is scheduled to present at 2:30 pm Pacific Time. The conference is being held at the Le Meridien Hotel in San Francisco.

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Bloomberg: More Than 40% Of U.S. May Be Obese By 2030, Study Says The obesity rate may rise to 42 percent from about a third of the U.S. population by 2030 if nothing changes, according to a report. Preventing that increase may save about $550 billion in medical costs over the next 20 years, Eric Finkelstein, the study author and an associate research professor at Duke University, said during a press briefing (Lopatto, 5/7).

The Fiscal Times: The Obesity Epidemic: Another $550B in Costs by 2030 Let’s start with the good news, because, frankly, there isn’t all that much of it: The rate of increasing obesity in America has apparently flattened out some in recent years.

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Alcoholism. Its a state where one goes from one drink to the other and everything that they do revolves around the fact that the sooner they get a drink, the better.

The worst part about alcoholism is that people who often suffer from this dreaded disease often are unable to admit the fact that a state such as alcohol addiction does exist.

And for those who realize that its not all rainbows and sunshine, also understand that its time to drop the bottle. By then, its almost too late to do anything about it.

In my experience, Ive seen people get into alcoholism, when they drink alone.

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When Michelle Anderson talks about her daughter Vera, people often ask if she has a nursing background. The medical profession would have been so on the bottom of my list for a job choice, Michelle said, but she has become adept at navigating the medical world out of love for her daughters. Vera, now approaching her second birthday, is on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. Meanwhile, she is struggling to live with underdeveloped kidneys and severe gastric reflux, which causes her to vomit more than a dozen times a day.

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For me, being 100% compliant to eating for health means following Dr. Fuhrman’s high-nutrient food plan (“GOMBBS” - greens, onions, mushrooms, beans, berries, nuts/seeds), stopping before full and eating only when truly hungry. Following the food plan isn’t the hard part for me; the “stopping before full and eating only when truly hungry” is the hard part. The stopping before full habit has taken me the longest to retrain and develop. I actually feel about as miserable now when I’m full as I would if I ate processed fake foods; but it took much repetitive training, and many failures, over three years’ worth, to get to this point.

Plus, eating as a social and recreational activity has been hard to change as it has been so engrained in me over the years. However, I’m now much more aware of how many times a day most of society eats as an activity. In fact, it

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Remember this post from last week? Well, forget it. Exactly what I didn’t want to do, I did. I ran around like a crazy person the first couple days of Hanukkah to grab last-minute gifts for Preston. But rather than getting eight big gifts for each night, we went with one, and several smaller gifts (the equivalent of stocking stuffers), so he had—and still has—something to open each night, after we light the candles and sing Hanukkah songs. Preston really couldn’t care less about opening gifts. I have to chase him around the house just to get him to open one—like I said, this is more for my enjoyment than his. The highl

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