Miami-Dade College Suspends Midwifery Program

This should be a sad day for women as the only institution of higher education in the U.S. that offers direct-entry midwifery education, closes the program for supposed financial reasons.As of the 2008 estimates in The World Factbook by the CIA, the United States ranks 42nd...

The Report that was Too Hot For the Public to Handle

For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it...

Afghan Infant Mortality Improves

Associated Press, April 27, 2007 KABUL, Afghanistan — (Excerpt) "Improvements in women's access to medical care since the Taliban fell five years ago have led to a marked decrease in Afghanistan's infant mortality rates, with 40,000 fewer infant deaths a year, according...

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