Birth Defects

Justice for Carousel

2013-05-16 13:56:00

Royalene Fernandez thought her dream had come true when she bought her house on Panama Avenue in Carson. Palm trees lined the street just a few miles from the beach. Royalene and her husband had saved every dime to buy their home and were thrilled when...

Letters: Vietnam today

2013-05-08 00:00:00

Re "The Vietnam syndrome," Opinion, May 5 Frank Snepp, a former CIA analyst who was in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon in 1975, worries that we may not have learned the lessons of our war in that country. He may have missed the most important lesson....

FDA warns pregnant migraine sufferers against anti-seizure drugs

2013-05-06 16:56:00

The Food and Drug Administration is warning physicians that women who suffer migraine headaches and are pregnant or may become pregnant should not use the drugs valproate or valproic acid to prevent the severe headaches, in light of new evidence showing...

Letters: Not so fast on Syria

2013-04-28 00:00:00

Re "A 'red line' on Syria," Editorial, April 25 The lessons of our disastrous invasion of Iraq have been ignored. Syria presents no direct threat to the U.S., and yet the foreign policy elite and the media are increasingly saying we may have to...

Letters: The language of Justice Scalia

2013-04-19 00:00:00

Re "Scalia's poison pen," Opinion, April 14 Bigoted as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's views on homosexuality seem, he makes a valid legal point by intimating that equal protection claims asserted to support gay marriage similarly support...

Retired athletes to protest workers' compensation bill

2013-04-15 00:00:00

SACRAMENTO — Let the political games begin. A battle between professional athletes and owners of football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer teams starts Monday. Dozens of retired athletes plan a news conference on the steps of the state...

Robert Edwards dies at 87; Nobel winner for first 'test-tube baby'

2013-04-10 14:13:00

About 10% of married couples suffer from infertility – the inability to conceive a child naturally. Through the better part of the 20th century, physicians considered this a minor and perhaps irrelevant problem, one that contributed overall to...

FDA approves an old drug for morning sickness

2013-04-09 06:00:00

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a drug to treat the severe nausea and vomiting that some women experience during early pregnancy. The Canadian-made medication will be marketed as Diclegis. It is the only prescription medication...

Fukushima nuclear disaster adds only small health risks, WHO says

2013-02-28 15:21:00

The 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami that triggered a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station has resulted in only a small increase in lifetime cancer risks for people living nearby, and an even smaller...

Air pollution linked to birth defects in San Joaquin Valley, study says

2013-03-28 15:26:00

Researchers have linked air pollution and birth defects among�pregnant women in the San Joaquin Valley, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine. The study looked at women�between 1997 and 2006, including 806 whose pregnancies were...

Emily Rapp writes her way through grief in 'Still Point of the Turning World''

2013-03-15 06:00:00

Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their then-9-month-old son to a pediatric ophthalmologist because of concerns about developmental delays. Ronan,...

C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former U.S. surgeon general

2013-02-25 00:00:00

In the mid-1980s, the emerging AIDS epidemic was a high-profile target of vocal conservatives. Politicians and the religious right called for sweeping measures against those diagnosed with AIDS, including quarantine of patients, mandatory screening of...

Participants walk in the 2012 March for Babies at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, in South Whitehall Township on Sunday. March for Babies is the March of Dimes� premier fundraising event that benefits area babies.

2012-04-22 00:00:00

Tatyana McFadden was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage. Due to a birth defect called spina bifida, she does not have the use of her legs and the orphanage did not provide her with a wheelchair.

2012-01-04 00:00:00

Karla D. Thomas has been named executive director of media relations for St. Xavier University. She is charged with developing and directing St. Xavier's media relations efforts and serving as a university spokeswoman.

2011-07-25 22:00:00