Tag: pregnancy
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Appeals court says car crash victim’s pregnancies irrelevant to personal injury trial
Colorado’s second-highest court determined last week that a Weld County judge should not have instructed jurors to consider a car crash victim’s subsequent pregnancies and the disruption they had to her treatment when deciding how much money she should receive for her injuries. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the evidence did…
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Judge allows ex-Aurora VA doc to proceed with employment discrimination case
A federal judge last month permitted a former anesthesiologist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado to proceed with some of her employment discrimination claims, even though a different judge previously found the VA was justified in removing her. Elizabeth Schacht worked for the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Aurora between 2015 and…
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Levi Is Home
Levi Clarke was born at home early in the morning of Jan. 27, 2021. The idea of a home birth had appealed to Maddie Clarke before, but the prospect of having the birth at a hospital during the pandemic sealed the deal. Between 2004 and 2017, births at homes and in birthing centers increased by…
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Live Well: New company to sell pregnancy, ovulation tests online
Buying pregnancy or ovulation tests at the store can be a fraught experience. It was for Heather Smith, who remembers feeling like she had to flash a wedding ring at the checkout clerk, subliminally signifying it was OK for her to purchase such products because she was married, and not out carousing as a shamefully…
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Live Well: New company to sell pregnancy, ovulation tests online
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Buying pregnancy or ovulation tests at the store can be a fraught experience. It was for Heather Smith, who remembers feeling like she had to flash a wedding ring at the checkout clerk, subliminally signifying…
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Snooki of ‘Jersey Shore’ delivers baby boy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEW YORK (AP) — “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi early Sunday gave birth to her first child, a boy. The reality TV star and her fiance, Jionni LaValle, welcomed 6-pound, 5-ounce Lorenzo Dominic LaValle…
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Snooki of ‘Jersey Shore’ delivers baby boy
NEW YORK (AP) — “Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi early Sunday gave birth to her first child, a boy. The reality TV star and her fiance, Jionni LaValle, welcomed 6-pound, 5-ounce Lorenzo Dominic LaValle into the world at just before 3 a.m. Sunday at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., MTV said. “The…
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Older dads hand more DNA changes to kids, opening autism debate
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEW YORK — Children of older fathers are known to be more at risk for diseases including schizophrenia and autism. Now, a new scientific look at the genes passed down within families may have pinpointed a…
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Older dads hand more DNA changes to kids, opening autism debate
NEW YORK — Children of older fathers are known to be more at risk for diseases including schizophrenia and autism. Now, a new scientific look at the genes passed down within families may have pinpointed a reason why. The study, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature, found that older fathers transmit more new DNA variations to…
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Kids, no kids? One or four? When couples disagree
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Budd fell for his high school sweetheart all over again when they reconnected after college. Both were 25 when they married. He just assumed they’d have kids one day, something he had always…