WASHINGTON — More than 1.8 million homes along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts are at great risk of being damaged by a hurricane, three times the number located in federally defined flood zones, according to a report released Tuesday.The repor…
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Osama bin Laden’s death has decreased the risk of doing business around the globe and especially in the Middle East, providing a needed boost to the broader economic recovery, economists said Monday.The leader of the al Qaeda terrorist group…
New evidence emerged on Friday that women taking Bayer’s best-selling contraceptive Yasmin may run a higher risk of dangerous blood clots than those using older birth-control pills.Two studies showed that users of pills containing drospireno…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — North Pacific fish are so unlikely to be contaminated by radioactive material from the crippled nuclear plant in Japan that there’s no reason to test them, according to federal and state of Alaska health officials.Danger…
Banks need to do more to shift away from a culture of risk and the excessive pay structures that prevailed before the financial crisis, an industry report said.Banks have made progress since 2008 as top management and boards have become more…
Most schools serving Echo Park sit close to faults, liquefaction zones and other seismic hazards, state data show. Seven are classified as having unresolved safety issues that may put students at risk in a major earthquake.The state has also…
This week, two groups reported in the journal Nature Genetics that they had identified five new genes linked to an increased risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s — doubling the total number of genes known to contribute to the risk of the neurolog…
The FDA has approved Makena™ (hydroxyprogesterone caproate injection), formerly known as 17P, to reduce the risk of preterm birth. Makena™ is the only treatment that is FDA approved. Women who are eligible for Makena™ are moms who are carry…
Women who smoke have an increased risk of developing breast cancer, especially if they become smokers early in life, a new study suggests.But the added risk appears to be small, except among heavy smokers. Compared with women who had never s…
As the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) releases the final birth data for 2008, a new term emerges – early term.
Early term is used to define babies born between 37-38 weeks gestation. While these babies are not preterm, born prior to …
After Friday’s grim jobs data, which showed that the U.S. added just 39,000 net jobs in November, it’s worth noting again just how severely the recession has impacted the job market. This disturbing chart — repeatedly referred to as “the s…
Ultrasound testing in pregnancy was once reserved for only high risk pregnancies or a pregnancy where there was a very specific need for ultrasound. Now it seems like many women are having ultrasounds done at nearly every visit, and at the very leas…
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Smoothies for Morning Sickness
Morning sickness sucks. One of the big problems with experiencing this pregnancy symptom is that you run the risk of becoming dehydrated or your nutrition suffers. That’s where smoothies come in….Read Full Post
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Postpartum Depression Quiz
I just talked to a new mother who was sounding really down. I asked her if she thought that maybe she was suffering from postpartum depression. She said, “Oh, I just thought feeling this awful was normal.” Her answer was simple and reminded me how i…
SAN DIEGO — The new commandant of the U.S. Marines Corps said Saturday that now is the wrong time to overturn the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy prohibiting gays from openly serving in the military, as U.S. troops remain in the thick o…
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Audit: National Archives At Risk
WASHINGTON — An audit prompted in part by the loss of the Wright Brothers’ original patent and maps for atomic bomb missions in Japan finds some of the nation’s prized historical documents are in danger of being lost for good.Nearly 80…
