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Prenatal Health, Labor and Delivery

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Pregnant? Then Get an STD Test, for God's Sake

    A lot of pregnant women don't get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. But a lot of pregnant need to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, according to just released Centers for Disease Control stats. Out of some 1.3 million American women who had blood work during pregnancy, only 59 p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Dumped Newborn In Hospital Trashcan, Gets 10 Years In Prison For Baby's Death

    When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for him. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan in the bathroom at the hospital. He died seven days lat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Dawa Lama, Queens Monster Who Threw Newborn In Hospital Trash Can, Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter; 10-Year Prison Sentence Expected

    ​When Dawa Lama, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the bathroom at a Queens hospital last year, she could have easily turned him over to hospital staff if she felt she couldn't care for the boy. But she didn't -- she threw him in a trashcan. He died seven days later -- and now Lama is likely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Rick Santorum Opposes Prenatal Testing, Women

    ​Rick Santorum doesn't think that insurance companies should have to pay for a simple diagnostic test that determines whether a baby will be born sick or severely disabled. Santorum, who is so anti-abortion that he would make his own daughter carry a rape-baby to term, thinks that amniocente ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Pregnancy and Boozing Are a Bad Mix: Study

    ​File this under "parenting tips for selfish jackasses who should never, ever have children." A new study has found -- get ready -- that drinking during pregnancy is still really bad for the developing fetus, according to the U.S. News & World Report.

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2011

    Marni Kotak, Artist, Will Give Birth at Microscope Gallery, for Real

    Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of this would look like. Enter the very pregnant performance artist Marni Kotak, who is transforming the Microscope Gallery into a home-birth center where sh ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 11, 2011

    HOT MAMA BURLESQUE

    Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of this would look like. Enter the very pregnant performance artist Marni Kotak, who is transforming the Microscope Gallery into a home-birth center where sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011
  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Donny and Marie on Broadway?

    ​According to commenter on a Broadway board, where they're so very often right, Donny and Marie Osmond might be smiling their way into the Marquis Theater for 17 performances of a holiday show. If so, would it be a Mormon spectacular with production numbers about bigamy and chirpy monologues ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 1, 2010

    BrokeNCYDE

    ​According to commenter on a Broadway board, where they're so very often right, Donny and Marie Osmond might be smiling their way into the Marquis Theater for 17 performances of a holiday show. If so, would it be a Mormon spectacular with production numbers about bigamy and chirpy monologues ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Study: Male Fetuses Pretend Stress "Isn't Happening"

    ​The University of Adelaide in Australia has determined that boy and girl babies have totally different reactions in the womb to a variety of stressors, from asthma, pre-eclampsia, and cigarette smoke to psychological stress in the mother. "The male, when mum is stressed, pretends it's not h ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 24, 2009

    Mon Khmer

    ​The University of Adelaide in Australia has determined that boy and girl babies have totally different reactions in the womb to a variety of stressors, from asthma, pre-eclampsia, and cigarette smoke to psychological stress in the mother. "The male, when mum is stressed, pretends it's not h ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

    Artist shifts focus from environmental to personal

  • Film

    January 1, 2008

    The Business of Being Born

    Artist shifts focus from environmental to personal

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    Roe v. No

    The fight over Alito misses the daily defeat of legal abortion

  • Columns

    October 8, 2002

    Hot Mamas

    The fight over Alito misses the daily defeat of legal abortion

  • News

    September 19, 2000

    Saving Babies

    Fighting to Reduce Infant Mortality Among Immigrants and African Americans

  • News

    August 3, 1999

    Digital, Baby!

    Technology Goes Back to the Womb

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