Delivery practices of traditional birth attendants in Dhaka Slums, Bangladesh.
ABSTRACT This paper describes associations among delivery-location, training of birth attendants, birthing practices, and early postpartum morbidity in women in slum areas of Dhaka, Bangladesh. During November 1993-May 1995, data on delivery-location, training of birth attendants, birthing practices, delivery-related complications, and postpartum morbidity were collected through interviews...

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Nominations for 2004: The 2003 Nominating Committee, consisting of Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University, chair; Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University; Charles W. Eagles, University of Mississippi; Thavolia Glymph, Duke University; and Patricia A. Sullivan, University of South Carolina, met at the annual meeting in Houston in November and...

Toward making abortion 'rare': the shifting battleground over the means to an end.
Safe, legal and rare. President Clinton first used this phrase, as early as 1992, to capture the essence of a desired national policy on abortion. For the most part, even the most ardent abortion rights supporters have come to embrace this notion and to accept the validity of its...

Painless Childbirth.
Painless Childbirth Giuditta Tornetta Cumberland House Publishing 431 Harding Industrial Drive, Nashville TN 37211 9781581826401, $16.95 www.cumberlandhouse.com PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH: AN EMPOWERING JOURNEY THROUGH PREGNANCY AND BIRTH is a pick family libraries will want: it explores the relationship between the...

Evaluating the Edinburgh postnatal depression scale: a case study from Kingston Maternal and Child Health Service in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Introduction The Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, (EPDS) is a screening tool used to help professionals detect postnatal depression (PND). The EPDS has been found to be a reliable and valid measure for detecting PND and major depression and validated in other countries. Early detection and...

Because I am a girl ... how young women's rights are being ignored.
In the age of girl power, it is easy to think that girls are now equal to boys. But a recent report has revealed that this is not the case. Nikki van der Gaag, who wrote the report, reveals how, in many countries around the world, girls are still...

House of Lords, in four-to-three vote, holds, citing U.S. and other authorities, that disabled mother who bore healthy child because of negligent sterilization operation is not entitled to have National Health Service pay costs of bringing up child.
The claimant, Ms. Karina Rees, is a single woman now 31 years of age and unable to work. She is suffering from a severe and progressive visual disability -- a genetic condition known as retinitis pigmentosa. Since the age of two she has been sightless in one eye and...

Parents' beliefs about condoms and oral contraceptives: are they medically accurate?
National and local debates persist about the appropriate content of school-based sex education. Meanwhile, a patchwork of federal, state and local laws mandate the teaching of certain topics and forbid the teaching of others. Amid this ongoing controversy, one area of agreement is the importance of parents in their...

FDA Clears New American Medical Systems SPARC(TM) Sling System for The Treatment of Female Incontinence.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- American Medical Systems (Nasdaq: AMMD) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the AMS SPARC(TM) Sling System for commercial marketing in the United States. The innovative system designed to offer a superior surgical approach to placing a sling...

American Medical Systems Exhibits New Minimally Invasive Sling System At European Association of Urology Annual Meeting.
SPARC(TM) Sling System Designed to Offer Enhanced Approach to Treating Female Incontinence MINNEAPOLIS, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- American Medical Systems (Nasdaq: AMMD), the leading independent manufacturer of urological surgical devices, is exhibiting the minimally invasive SPARC(R) Sling System for the first time at...