| Deaths of upstate teens ruled a murder-suicide | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 2:46:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | SANFORD, N.Y. A pregnant teenager was shot and killed by her boyfriend before he committed suicide in his father's upstate home where the couple was staying. That's according to authorities in Broome County, where the bodies of Lisa Tyler and Shane Katen were found in the home of Katen's father last Friday morning. Investigators say an autopsy showed Tyler was in the early stages of pregnancy. Their bodies were found by Katen's father in Sanford, a rural town 15 miles east of Binghamton. Sheriff's investigators say Tyler and Katen apparently got into an argument Thursday evening and Katen shot the young woman in the head with a shotgun. He was later seen talking to a younger brother at another location. Authorities say Katen returned to his father's home and shot himself with a handgun.... | |
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| | | Voters reject South Dakota abortion ban | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:47:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters) -- South Dakota voters overturned on Tuesday a state abortion ban that supporters had championed as the best chance to challenge a 33-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing the procedure. "This means that there has been a rebellion against social, right-wing wedge politics that have been dominating this country," said Sarah Stoesz, chief of Planned Parenthood's operations in the Dakotas and Minnesota, key backers of the campaign to kill the measure. "It is a very important victory for people who are open-minded and progressive in this country." (View ballot initiatives results) Supporters of the abortion ban declined to comment. With 81 percent of vote counted early Wednesday, those voting to overturn the law had an advantage of 55 percent to 45 percent, and CNN projected a victory for opponents of the measure.... | |
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| | | Tucumcarian part of national Baptist board | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 10:47:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | Mary Ann Garrett of Tucumcari serves on the North American Mission Board (NAMB), headquartered in Atlanta. It is an outreach of the Southern Baptist Convention. She also serves as consultant to Southern Baptists outreach ministries in eastern New Mexico and the Baptist Convention of Mexico. There are nine churches, with more than 3,000 members, in Quay County that are members of the Southern Baptist Convention. In Tucumcari they are the First Baptist, Trinity Baptist, Immanuel Baptist and First Spanish Baptist. There is also a First Baptist in Conchas, Santa Rosa, House, San Jon and Logan. Statewide, there are 98,000 members in the Southern Baptist churches. Q: How long have you been involved in ministry for the Southern Baptist Convention? A: My husband, Grover, and I have been serving in ministry for 50 years now.... | |
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| | | Enough to bring tears | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 12:47:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sam Taylor-Wood is the British photographer who persuaded David Beckham to let her film him sleeping, and has brought tears to the eyes of leading Hollywood men. Emotions are what she does best and?with two bouts of cancer behind her ? her own life has given rise to more than a few, writes Robyn Mclean. Sam Taylor-Wood has reduced some of the world's most famous men to tears. She's handed out Kleenex to Robert Downey junior, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman and Daniel Craig, all of whom sat before her crying their eyes out. She's crept around David Beckham's bedside filming him as he slept ? something that might make good tabloid fodder if it weren't for the fact Victoria knew about it and was quite happy for this blonde to be there. Taylor-Wood is one of Britain's hottest photographers.... | |
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| | | Flu vaccine to be encouraged for women in late pregnancy | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 6:47:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Pregnant women are likely to be offered flu vaccination in the later stages of pregnancy because of the strain that the illness could put on their heart and lungs in childbirth. The move is likely to cause concern among some pregnant women who are already anxious about advice that is offered on what foods and medications are safe. Flu vaccination in pregnancy is already offered in the US but take-up has been low. In the UK, confidence in vaccines has also been damaged by the controversy over the alleged links between MMR vaccination and autism - now discredited in the eyes of most scientists. According to the government's expert advisory group on vaccinations, flu could pose a risk for women in labour and also for their unborn child. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisations (JCVI) agreed in June "that pregnant women were at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality from seasonal influenza".... | |
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| | | Rwanda: The Challenges of Gender in the Health Sector | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:46:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | One of the paradoxes of research in gender and health is the consistent finding that women's morbidity rate is higher but live longer than men. Apparently health is a fluid concept that goes beyond disease; it includes the level of physical, social and mental well being. The irony is that living longer does not necessarily mean a healthier life for most women. Health is about much more than life expectancy, and so we must look beyond it to male and female quality of life and their patterns of behaviour. Whereas older women have higher chances of staying alive, surprisingly men tend to lead healthier lives than most women. This is indicated in the fact that older women are usually weak and vulnerable to diseases like arthritis, Alzheimer' disease, high and low blood pressure and diabetes than older men do.... | |
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| | | Supreme Court refuses to reconsider 1973 Doe v. Bolton abortion ruling | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:46:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON (BP)--The Supreme Court declined Oct. 10 to revisit one of its 1973 opinions that resulted in the legalization of abortion for all reasons throughout all stages of pregnancy. The justices announced without comment their decision to deny a request to reverse the Doe v. Bolton decision, a companion to the infamous Roe v. Wade ruling. While the high court struck down state prohibitions on abortion in its Roe opinion, its Doe ruling defined a womans health so expansively as to permit, in effect, an abortion for any reason, even during the final stage of the trimester system formulated by the court in Roe. In 2005, the Supreme Court rejected a similar request to vacate its Roe decision. Lawyers in the attempt to overturn Doe filed medical and scientific evidence, as well as the sworn testimonies of more than 1,000 women harmed by abortion, in seeking to convince the high court that the 1973 opinion should not stay in effect because changes in the facts or law made the ruling no longer just.... | |
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| | | Nurses interface with new mothers | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:46:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | SUMMIT COVE - Like many soon-to-be mothers, Summit Cove resident Lorena Melott was not quite sure what to expect when she found out she was expecting. "I was still young, and I didn't know what to expect. It's a little tiny person - it's a life - you don't want to do anything wrong," said Melott, who was 20-years-old at the time of her son Devin Carillo's birth. With the help of The Intermountain Nurse-Family Partnership, Melott was able to receive a mentor in the form of Lynne Mosbaugh, a registered nurse. The Intermountain Nurse Family Partnership, a local branch of the national organization, pairs registered nurses with first-time limited income mothers. The nurses visit the mothers throughout the initial stages of pregnancy through the child's second birthday.... | |
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| | | Pregnant, breastfeeding Pinays low in energy, nutrient intake: survey | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:46:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | ASIDE from children, pregnant and breastfeeding women are also vulnerable or at-risk to malnutrition. This is because of the increased nutrient needs during these physiological stages. The women's childbearing and nurturing roles sometimes work to their disadvantage. They devote most of their time to their family and neglect their own health. This makes them more vulnerable to malnutrition. .... | |
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| | | Trio accused of stealing $1.7 million in unprocessed gold from ... | | Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 12:46:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | VICTOR, Colo. -- Three former employees of a Colorado gold mine face charges of stealing more than $1.7 million in unprocessed gold, prosecutors said Friday. The men were accused of diverting a line carrying gold-saturated fluid from the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Co. to a homemade recovery filter, sending it to California for refining and then selling it on the open market, the company said.Daniel Blake Parsons, 37, John Hurtt, 45, and Peter Lloyd Quammen, 35, face felony theft and conspiracy charges. Hurtt was arrested Tuesday in Casper, Wyo. Parsons was arrested Wednesday in Colorado Springs and Quammen was arrested Wednesday in Calaveras County, Calif. .... | |
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