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Md. Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) has predicted that a new wave of obstetricians will close their practices in the wake of a 33 percent rise in the cost of malpractice insurance, which takes effect Wednesday.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 23--HIGH-TECH TRY-ON ROOMS   Technology from IconNicholson allows shoppers to try on virtual garments in their dressing rooms. Here's how it works:   Dressing rooms are equipped with "magic mirrors" with interactive screens.
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Having a nurse visit the home a few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or dehydration -- and it saves money -- according to a new study.
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More than 2,500 families participated in the study carried out by the King Edward Memorial Hospital over a 15-year period. Pregnant women are usually scanned at 12 and 18 weeks and after 20 weeks if there are any medical concerns.
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Women who attempt to deliver their babies vaginally after a Caesarean section face some health threats to themselves and their babies, although those risks are small.
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WASHINGTON Nov 23, 2004 - More than a quarter of the babies born in the United States last year were delivered by Caesarean section, a record high for the surgical method that is a controversial subject among both obstetricians and mothers.
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U.S. News & World Report - Just check in with the patient and let me know how she did overnight, my resident instructed me. A straightforward task, I thought, but still, nothing comes easy the first days on the hospital wards as a third-year student. I peered into the room and saw my patient cradled in her mother's arms. An 11-month-old who recently arrived from Guam, she had a raging ear infection. Her mother looked weary from the long nights. What could I offer? More immediately, where to begin?
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A new website is being launched in an attempt to strengthen patient choice.
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Waiting 30 seconds to two minutes after birth to cut the umbilical cord of a premature baby appears to lessen chances of bleeding in the newborn&#39;s brain and reduce the need for transfusions, according to a new review of research.
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The birth simulator has now been used to determine the best way to deliver a baby whose shoulders become stuck in the birth canal.
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NEW YORK  - Preliminary results from a study hint that vaginal douching 6 months before pregnancy, but not during pregnancy, may protect African American women from delivering preterm (before 40 weeks).
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A new generation of complex, electronic birth simulators allow medical students to practice labor and birth -- especially when there are complications. Meet the mannequins.
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Bernadette Upton gives mothers-to-be a wakeup call with one sentence. "Typically," she says, "we bring baby home to the sickest room in the house." The nursery is "sick" because we think more about how the room will look than what it will do to our babies' health.
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LONDON, Oct 22 (IPS) - The Women Deliver conference held in London last  week has reminded a lot of people in the world of healthcare how  much more they need to deliver to make pregnancy and childbirth  safer for women.
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Pregnant women can be given a low-dose epidural early in labor without raising their chances of a Caesarean section, according to a study that could change the way obstetricians practice and make childbirth a lot less painful for many mothers-to-be.
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At St. Luke's Hospital, each of the 14 new neurology intensive care rooms has a feature that's becoming standard in the health care industry: a patient lift system that can handle up to 600 pounds.
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The findings of the 'American-Australian-African trial with DronedarONe In atrial fibrillation or flutter patients for the maintenance of Sinus rhythm' (ADONIS) trial, announced at the annual meeting of the ...