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Most Women Unprepared for Operative Deliveries

... their child may happen. Researchers say women are unprepared for operative deliveries including cesarean sectio...fter the experience. Results show the women felt unprepared for an operative delivery and thought their birth plan classes had not adequately prepared them. The...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

...ed States are unplanned, leaving women unaware and unprepared for the potential risks. The Epilepsy Foundation, through an unrestricted education grant from GlaxoSmithKline, has formulated the action plan to empower women to reduce the risks associated with anticonvulsant drugs, and establish a more successfu...

US is unprepared for a bio-terrorist attack

... attack. The shortcomings are inclusive of being unprepared for chemical terrorism or being unable to ensure that healthcare workers could continue to work during a major disease outbreak. Most states had too many vulnerabilities and not enough strengths to adequately counter a natural disaster, a pandemic vi...

U.S. unprepared to tackle bird flu

...my of Sciences, said that the nation is completely unprepared in case an epidemic. This fear about the bird flu is basically because the disease has killed about 90 individuals worldwide and officials fear that it will mutate into a form that spreads easily among people....

Teens and Pregnancy

...; Hispanic teens were less likely to say they were unprepared to raise a child. Overall, those surveyed cited more disadvantages than advantages to teen pregnancy. However, Hispanic teens cited positive aspects of pregnancy in terms of how it enhanced connections with others, including the perception that a bab...

Many Medical Students Unprepared for Skilled Prescribing

Many medical students are unprepared for skilled prescribing, warn doctors in this week’s BMJ.Evidence of poor prescribing in the UK is abundant, write Jeffrey Aronson and colleagues.// Effective treatments are often underprescribed and prescription errors are common, especially when ne...

One-Third of Scottish Pregnancies, a Mishap

...//surprise to prospective parents, who are totally unprepared for it. Researchers analyzed the surveys of almost 4,000 women who participated in prenatal classes at an Edinburgh hospital, and additional 907 who had approached the hospital for abortions. Nearly 90% of the women, who wished to undergo an ab...

XDR-TB: the Latest Global Terror

...core that the healthcare infrastructure is largely unprepared for the aerosol transmission of such a pathogen,' says Dr. John Mellors, professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and vice chairman of the scientific program at the retrovirus conference. Such strains have now been reported in 28 count...

UK Indian Doctors Obtain Injunction Against New Rule

...d from the interviews and the department is so far unprepared to enter in to any dialogue, we had no alternative. Nearly 30,000 doctors have applied for 22,000 training posts starting Aug 1, 2007, many of them of Indian origin. Hundreds of British doctors who applied have not been shortlisted. Many of them ha...

Screening by Private Companies Must Be Regulated: NSC

...ly popular and is not without hazard if done in an unprepared way. "Working to national standards would bring added peace of mind”, he added. At the same time there were protests from private institutions that this was not the case. Dr. Peter Mace, assistant director of Bupa wellness said: "We refute the a...

Resistance to Scientific Explanations By Children and Adults

...ations because a scientifically ignorant public is unprepared to evaluate policies about global warming, vaccination, genetically modified organisms, stem cell research, and cloning, said Paul Bloom, psychology professor and lead author of the review article. Also, science is not special here. The same process ...

Dengue Deaths Sweeping Cambodia Highlight Healthcare Failures

...mar. This combination has left Cambodia woefully unprepared for the current dengue outbreak. "People's understanding of sanitation is still very low," Mam Bun Heng says. "We are educating them," but about three million dollars will be needed to fight yearly outbreaks of dengue. Despite massive public educ...

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