| Help them out | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:46:25 PM by Blog57 Team | | A New Generation: 134 E Fort Dade Ave., provides free pregnancy tests, adoption information and support, post-abortion counseling and abstinence education. Needed: cash, baby items, disposable diapers, wipes, clothing and volunteers. Formerly known as A Women's Resource Center. Call 544-0911. ARC Nature Coast: 5283 Neff Lake Road, provides support and services to citizens with disabilities. Needed: Three-wheel bicycle, computers (2004 or newer) for the Community CAFE, outdoor recreation items for group homes (such as badmintons and croquet sets), scrubs (new or used), stationery exercise bike, arts and crafts supplies, tickets to sporting events, volunteers, tack items and grooming, food, hay and any horse-related items, and household furnishings. Call (352) 544-2322, ext. 109.... | |
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| | | To do for you | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:48:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | Shoshone Family Medical Center now has flu vaccine for the 2006-07 season. Vaccination is available on a walk-in basis from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.Cost is $20 and is covered (no co-pay) by Medicare and Medicaid.For information, call 886-2224.About metabolic weight lossThe Twin Falls Parks and Recreation Department is offering a Metabolic Weight Loss seminar from 6 to 9:30 p.m. today at Miracle Hot Springs.The seminar is for anyone 18 or older who is interested in learning about calorie intake versus metabolic rate, health concerns surrounding obesity, diet fads, proper food choices and how to increase activity.The fee is $25. To register, call 736-2265 or stop by the Parks and Recreation office at 136 Maxwell Ave.About childbirthThe first class of the prepared childbirth class series will be offered from 7 to 9:30 p.m.... | |
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| | | Factors Correlated With Cerebral Palsy Identified By Study | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 12:48:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Several factors, including maternal infection during pregnancy, very preterm birth, and certain findings on brain MRI scans were correlated with cerebral palsy, according to a study in the October 4 issue of JAMA. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings have been reported for specific clinical cerebral palsy (CP) subgroups or lesion types but not in a large population of children with all CP subtypes. Additional information about the causes of CP could help identify preventive strategies, according to background information in the article. Martin Bax, D.M., F.R.C.P.C.H., of Imperial College London and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, and colleagues examined the correlates of CP in a population sample and compared clinical findings with information available from MRI brain scans.... | |
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| | | Twins Have More Premature Menopause | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:46:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | Twins may be up to five times more likely to experience premature menopause than other women, according to a new study. Researchers studied more than 800 identical and non-identical female pairs of twins and found the women were three to five times more likely to experience premature menopause by either age 40 or 45, compared with other women. Premature ovarian failure (POF) occurs when the ovaries stop working before the age of 40, which causes premature menopause. It is a rare condition that usually affects about one in 100 women. "The reason that the association between twins and POF has been largely overlooked up to now is probably because POF is still uncommon, even in twins (3 to 5 in a hundred)," says researcher Roger Gosden, MD, professor of reproductive biology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, in a news release.... | |
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| | | IVF multiple embryo transfer: Not Recommended | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:46:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Women going in for fertility treatments should restrict the number of embryos that are used to just one, instead of the present maximum of two. A proposal to this effect is being recommended by experts to cap the soaring number of twin births. The specialist team commissioned by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) reported these findings after it observed that one in four IVF pregnancies resulted in the birth of twins. This figure was almost 10 times more that that the rate of twins born through natural pregnancy. Terming this practice a major hazard of IVF, experts warned that twin babies faced tremendous health risks. Twins were more likely to be born premature, underweight or have some sort of birth defect. The risk of the twins being still-born was also a possibility.... | |
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| | | `Desperate Housewives' creator Marc Cherry puts house in order after messy sophomore slump | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 6:46:25 AM by Blog57 Team | | The metaphor proved irresistible for "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry. When his ABC series returned after a creatively rocky second season, it opened with Wisteria Lane drenched in purifying rain. "Let's just wipe everything clean and start fresh," Cherry said, acknowledging the symbolism and the need for change. .... | |
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| | | Newborn twins take charge in Clinton Township household | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 2:46:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | T he sense Renee and Adam Simon had, while their newborn twins were still in the womb, was that these were going to be mighty determined little girls. Brooklyn was already planted -- head-first at the top of the birth canal, months before the actual delivery -- "Ready to rock and roll," in her mother's words. Chloe, Brooklyn's sister, was off to one side in the womb -- the hyperactive one, kicking up a storm throughout the pregnancy. "We were like, 'Oh great -- we're going to have a strong-willed child on our hands,' " says Renee, 25. But Brooklyn's turned out to be the active one -- that is, as active as any child can be who sleeps four-fifths of the time -- while Chloe's the twin most apt to be sacked out at any given moment. So much for pre-birth intuition.... | |
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| | | Genes reveal little on longevity | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 10:46:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | Josephine Tesauro never thought she would live so long. At 92, she is straight-backed, firm-jawed and vibrantly healthy, living alone in an immaculate brick ranch house high on a hill in Mount Pleasant, a Pittsburgh suburb. She works part time in a hospital gift shop and still drives her 1995 white Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera to meetings of her four bridge groups, to church and to the grocery store. She has outlived her husband, who died nine years ago, when he was 84. She has outlived her friends, and she has outlived three of her six brothers. Tesauro does, however, have a living sister, an identical twin. But she and her twin are not so identical anymore. Her sister is incontinent, she has had a hip replacement, and she has a degenerative disorder that destroyed most of her vision.... | |
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| | | Ova for Sale | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 12:46:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Louise Brown was born in July 1978, but the story of how she would recast civilization had been written years before. The first baby born through in vitro fertilization came not as a shock but as an affirmation, exhibit A to the commentariat who had for a decade promised that the day of the test-tube baby was nigh. To many, little Louise Brown was just the first drop of rain in a monsoon; delicate, unobjectionable, and trivial in herself, but harbinger of an onslaught that would rip away the groundwork of civilized society. In 1970, Princeton theologian Paul Ramsey railed against in vitro technologies in a sobering book titled Fabricated Man; a year later, The Atlantic Monthly ran a story headlined The Obsolescent Mother. Editorialists spun visions of a world in which women would exchange each others ova and rent each others wombs, creating all manner of tangled familial relations.... | |
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| | | Against-the-odds twins finally home | | Posted Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:46:17 AM by Blog57 Team | | TWIN babies Logan and Louie Stevenson, who battled against the odds to overcome a near-fatal syndrome before their premature birth, have finally been allowed home after weeks in the special care baby unit. The one-month-old boys faced a one-in-three chance of death or disability after they were diagnosed, before they were born, with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. To complicate matters, their mother, Lucy, had to be medevaced to Swansea after going into labour just 27 weeks into her pregnancy. The boys were eventually delivered at the Princess Elizabeth Hospital by Caesarean six weeks later more than a month before their due date. After a lifetime connected to tubes and wires in hospital and still weeks before they should have been born, the twins were released and able to visit their St Peter Port home for the first time on Friday.... | |
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