Woman pleads guilty in Ill. torture slaying of pregnant, developmentally impaired mother

October 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pregnant lesbian women struggle to be treated like normal expectant mothers as, they say, the focus is often on their sexuality rather than the fact that they are expecting a baby, say researchers. Swedish researchers from Linkopings University and Uppsala University Hospital have called for special training for midwives, more neutral healthcare routines and forms and special education groups for pregnant women who are lesbians and their partners.

October 19th, 2009 LONDON - A medical expert has warned all fathers-to-be to stay away from the pregnancy ward as seeing their wives giving birth could lead them to divorce. According to childbirth specialist Michael Odent, watching a woman give birth can lessen or end a man's sexual attraction towards her and lead to a split, reports the Daily Express.

October 13th, 2009 LONDON - Solving a longstanding puzzle, British scientists have finally proved that cancer cells can pass on from the mother to her unborn child. While there are very rare cases where a mother and child appear to share the same cancer, but in theory the child's immune system should block the cancer.

October 9th, 2009 Son: Slain 100-year-old mom, roommate had tensionDARTMOUTH, Mass. — The roommate of a 100-year-old woman found strangled in her bed at a nursing home had made "threatening" remarks to the centenarian, her son said Friday, and the slain woman's family had sought to have the women split up.

October 8th, 2009 Rite Aid alters flu-shot policy for pregnant womenHARRISBURG, Pa. — The nation's third-largest drugstore chain is no longer making pregnant women show a prescription to get a flu shot.

October 5th, 2009 Kan. doctor guilty of writing illegal prescriptionWICHITA, Kan. — A Kansas doctor who worked for a physician accused of causing dozens of patient deaths from prescription drugs has pleaded guilty to illegally prescribing a painkiller for a women he never met.

October 1st, 2009 Officials discuss motives in slaying of 3 in Ariz.ST. JOHNS, Ariz.

September 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Health experts have urged pregnant mothers get their flu shots as soon as the vaccines hit the market to protect themselves against both the seasonal flu and the H1N1 (swine) flu. Experts from eight organizations the March of Dimes, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, the Infectious Disease Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine claim that H1N1 virus is more dangerous for pregnant women.

September 15th, 2009 DA: Robbers used health care ruse to raid NY homeRIVERHEAD, N.Y. — Prosecutors say a man wearing a stethoscope and a woman holding a clipboard forced their way into a New York home under the guise of distributing pamphlets on President Barack Obama's health care plan and shot the residents before stealing $4,000.

September 14th, 2009 JERUSALEM - A 33-year-old mother of ten children, in her 39th week of pregnancy, died in Jerusalem from swine flu, Israel's health ministry said Monday. The woman with flu symptoms and a history of obesity, arrived at a Jerusalem hospital Sunday, where tests showed her foetus had died.

September 14th, 2009 NJ drug firm to pay nearly $25M in kickbacks caseBOSTON — A New Jersey pharmaceuticals firm will pay nearly $25 million in criminal and civil fines after pleading guilty to federal charges that it made illegal payments to encourage doctors to prescribe a blood pressure drug. The U.S. attorney's office in Boston announced Monday that Bridgewater-based Biovail Pharmaceuticals Inc.

September 9th, 2009 NIH expands swine flu shot tests to pregnant womenWASHINGTON — It's time to test the new swine flu vaccine in pregnant women. Studies of adults and children are going so well that the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday it is opening the research to 120 women in their second or third trimester of pregnancy.

September 8th, 2009 Woman guilty in ID theft that ensnared BernankeALEXANDRIA, Va. — A doctors' receptionist has admitted to stealing bank account information from patients as part of an identity theft ring that ensnared Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as a victim.

September 4th, 2009 Ex-head of surgery clinic pleads guilty to fraudNEW YORK — The former administrator of a Manhattan cosmetic surgery clinic where a man died while undergoing liposuction has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Arthur Kissel pleaded guilty Friday in a Manhattan federal court to health care fraud and mail fraud.

August 31st, 2009 GANDHINAGAR - An upcoming festive season and the increasing number of swine flu cases in Gujarat have the state government worried over the way to control the spread of the H1N1 virus in the state. "As of now there are 112 positive cases of swine flu in Gujarat, out of which an alarming 65 are from Ahmedabad.