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The Five Dangers of Parental Leave
Leaving work to care for a new child can complicate your career. Here's how to avoid common problems. Danger: Turning into Baby Central Neutralizer: Keep kid-centric chatter to a minimum It's natural for you to be excited about a new baby or a...
Tags: Professional development, Recruitment & Selection, C.C. Holland, pregnancy, leave, flex-time, career, workplace, job, Human Resources, women, health care, financial, sales
Articles 2007-05-29
Safe Motherhood: Promoting Health for Women Before, During, and After Pregnancy 2004
Approximately 6 million American women become pregnant each year, and more than 10,000 give birth each day. CDC continues to focus on monitoring pregnancy-related deaths and complications, identifying effective prevention strategies, research to improve maternal and child health, and assisting state health departments to improve programs for women and infants.
Tags: Gender and diversity, pregnancy, women, monitoring, health care
White papers 2004-02-17
Surveillance for Selected Maternal Behaviors and Experiences Before, During, and After Pregnancy
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System PRAMS is an ongoing, state- and population-based surveillance system designed to monitor selected self-reported maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before, during, and after pregnancy among women who deliver a live-born infant in 31 states and New York City. PRAMS employs a mixed-mode data...
Tags: pregnancy, women, survey, monitor, phone
White papers 2003-11-14
Estimated Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1990-2000: An Update
This paper presents detailed pregnancy rates for 1990-2000, updating a national series of rates extending since 1976. This paper presents pregnancy rates for 1990-2000, by age, race, Hispanic origin, and by marital status. The data in this paper, together with previously published pregnancy rates for earlier years, provide a consistent...
Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S.
White papers 2003-06-15
Strategies to Reduce Pregnancy-Related Deaths: From Identification and Review to Action
This paper describes strategies for conducting pregnancy-related or maternal mortality surveillance in the United States. This surveillance is an ongoing process of identifying pregnancy-related deaths, reviewing the factors that led to those deaths, analyzing and interpreting the information gathered, and acting on the results so as to reduce such deaths...
Tags: pregnancy, strategy
White papers 2002-02-15
Smoking During Pregnancy in the 1990s
This paper presents trends and variations in smoking during pregnancy in the United States. Data are presented for various characteristics including mother's age, race, ethnic origin, place of birth and State of residence, live birth order, and birth weight. The percentage of women who smoked during pregnancy declined every year...
Tags: Gender and diversity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, pregnancy, women
White papers 2001-08-28
Trends in Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1976-97: An Update
This paper presents detailed pregnancy rates for 1996 and 1997 to update a recently published comprehensive report on pregnancies and pregnancy rates for U.S. women. The teenage pregnancy rate dropped steadily through 1997, falling to a record low of 94.3 pregnancies per 1,000 teenagers 15-19 years, 19 percent below the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, pregnancy
White papers 2001-06-06
HIV and Reproduction
This paper reviews issues related to contraception and pregnancy and will discuss guidelines for care during pregnancy to optimize the health of both the mother and the fetus and infant. The ability to become pregnant and to bear children is uniquely female. With increasing numbers of HIV-infected women, 80% of...
Tags: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, pregnancy, HIV virus, health care
White papers 2001-02-09
National and State-Specific Pregnancy Rates Among Adolescents: United States, 1995--1997
Each year in the United States, 800,000-900,000 adolescents aged
Tags: Gender and diversity, pregnancy, women, U.S., health care
White papers 2000-06-14
Trends in Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates by Outcome: Estimates for the United States, 1976-1996
This report from the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks the effects of changes in sexual activity, marriage patterns, contraceptive use, attitudes and economic and educational opportunities on pregnancies, and pregnancy rates over the past two decades in the United States. Using complete counts...
Tags: pregnancy, U.S.
White papers 2000-01-01

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MOM'S RELUCTANCE TO DISCUSS SEX PUTS DAUGHTERS AT RISK
DEAR ABBY: My 17-year-old niece, "Nicki," was recently diagnosed with an STD. When her mother, my sister-in-law "Cynthia," found out she was horrified. She had ignored several family members -- including me -- who had tried to warn her that Nicki was sexually active and not taking proper precautions. ...
Articles 2008-07-16
U.S. Reproduction Management Product Markets Forecast to Exceed $3.5 Billion by 2010, According to a New Report from Medtech Insight/Windhover Information
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Each year, many couples take steps to either prevent or achieve pregnancy; products designed to assist in these endeavors represent a significant and growing market in the U.S. According to a new reproduction management industry report produced by Medtech Insight/Windhover Information, this market will experience an...
Articles 2008-07-16
Pediatrix Acquires Atlanta Maternal-Fetal Physician Practice
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (NYSE:PDX) has acquired Maternal Fetal Diagnostic Center of Atlanta, Inc., a physician group that provides services to women with complicated pregnancies. The practice was founded 18 years ago by Phillip L. Potter, M.D., a sole practitioner who sees patients at...
Articles 2008-07-16
Time of your life
Throughout our lives, our bodies are changing. As new research shows that men, too, have a biological clock, Jane Feinmann looks at what happens when - and how to roll back the years FERTILITY If you think that men can safely ignore their biological...
Articles 2008-07-15
Just Say No to Nuts During Pregnancy
If you've got a strong family history of food allergies or allergic asthma, you might want to think twice before munching a handful of nuts when you're pregnant. That's because recent research has found that regular consumption of nut products during pregnancy raises the odds of having a child with...
Articles 2008-07-15
"Let's get together and do something our parents will disapprove of!"
"Let's get together and do something our parents will disapprove of!" That sentiment has been a staple among groups of giggling teens since, very likely, the Paleolithic Era. Up in Gloucester, Mass., however, it recently seemed that things had gone a bit farther than egging neighborhood cars or smoking in...
Articles 2008-07-14
FIONA BABY JOY
A YOUNG mum who claimed that her mother slept with her husband to escape a jail term for drink-driving is pregnant. Fiona Porter, 24, instructed her solicitor John Devane to tell Limerick District Court she had caught her mum Bernadette Garvey sleeping with her husband Hugo....
Articles 2008-07-13
Women go Dutch for cut-price abortion deals
COST-conscious women are flying to Holland for abortions - because they are cheaper than in Britain. More than 440 women had abortions in the Netherlands in 2007 - 10 times as many as in 2005. And Ireland's Crisis Pregnancy Agency CPA believe...
Articles 2008-07-13
Deseret News/Intermountain Healthcare Hotline today
Kids' health -- from a healthy pregnancy and preventing premature birth through the scrapes and bumps, childhood diseases and beyond is the topic of today's Deseret News/Intermountain Healthcare Hotline. From 10 a.m. to noon, Dr. Peter Lindgren, a pediatrician, and Tracy Karp, neonatal nurse practitioner, will take phoned-in questions. From...
Articles 2008-07-12
Call hotline Saturday between 10 a.m. and noon
Kids' health -- from a healthy pregnancy and preventing premature birth through the scrapes and bumps, childhood diseases and beyond - - is the topic of Saturday's Deseret News/Intermountain Healthcare Hotline. From 10 a.m. to noon, Dr. Peter Lindgren, a pediatrician, and Tracy Karp, neonatal nurse practitioner, will take phoned-in...
Articles 2008-07-11
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