http://baumslag.com Dr. Baumslag on medicine, ethics, and public health Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:50:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en indias maternal mortality  rate 254death/100,000live births more than half of all maternal deaths in 2008 wre n 6 countries india nigeria pakistan afganistan nd ethiopia and the democratic repub;icof congo 30 dollars or several weeks wages rate 10times that of chinawhich has focused on improving rural health care dying in childbirth results in broken ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/in-india-the-best-midwife-may-be-money CDC's Morbidity and Mortality report March 26  2010     Racial and Ethnic Differences in Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration, by State is seriously flawed. Basic epidemiology requires one to define what one is measuring. To define breastfeeding as":ever" is unacceptable. Furthermore this is all recall data and there is no evidence of external ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/useless-meaningless-definitions Padmini Murthy's book on women's health and human rights has just been published and is an important book, underscoring how women's health has been seriously neglected. It discusses neglected areas such as those covered in the Millenium Development Goals. They push for more resources and action stopping over 500-thousand maternal deaths ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/womens-global-health-and-human-rights Once again the Nesles is called on to observe the international standards they accepted. Experts have called on the UN Global Compact Office to expel Nestles because the company is, as usual, ignoring the international Code of Marketing Breast Milk Substitutes and in this way undermining breastfeeding: "Trade union busting" and ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/expell-nestles-from-un-global-compact-office-initiative Its incredible that "pro-lifers" who decry abortion as murder have the gall to murder a dedicated physician performing legal abortion. This pro-life murderer makes a mockery of the pro-lifers stance. Women who seek a late term abortion from a trained physician are very desperate and an abortion ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/pro-life-murderer-of-dr-tiller-deserves-a-life-sentence On June the 5th, the House finally passed a long overdue bill giving Federal working moms four weeks paid maternity leave. Of course there were those who were against giving women anything. A preposterous argument against giving women paid maternity leave was made by some opposed to the bill who ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/paid-maternity-leave-in-the-us The Women’s International Public Health Network (WIPHN) was started in Mexico City for the women in public health and related areas. Especially, they wanted to have a newsletter to share resources, programs, concerns and sisterhood. Women from over 67 countries world-wide, with a wide range of expertise, contributed to the ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/womens-international-public-health-newsletters-online Barack Obama has promised true change in America. The pharmaceutical industry is probably one of the areas in this country which needs this change most. In the United States, corporate profit is currently ahead of human health. We need the health priorities of our nation to be forefront in ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/hoping-for-true-change-in-the-us-healthcare-system When will women learn that there's no substitute for breastfeeding? Everyone needs to understand that if you want the best for for your infants, just breastfeed! In the past few years there have been 70-odd recalls of the so-called 'infant formula' (in reality a risky mix of chemicals without immunological ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/needless-deaths-and-suffering-of-chinese-babies-from-melanine-in-infant-formula Buy your tomato sauce in glass jars. Canned tomato sauce is likely to have higher levels of BPA because the high acidity of the tomatoes causes more of the chemical to leach from the lining of the can. Think beyond plain tomato sauce to any canned pasta—like ravioli and those ... http://baumslag.com/weblog/ways-to-reduce-intake-of-bpa