The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
The gentlebirth.org website is provided courtesy of
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS,
a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, CA
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I just had my mind expanded this morning by Laureen Hudson's hour long online session on how to use the internet to get a message out. Laureen's session “Creating an Online Presence," gave me a wealth of information in a short time and impressed me with how many people are out there who completely rely on the internet for their information. I needed that, and maybe you do, too. - Ina May Gaskin I just hung up the phone from doing the hour long session with
Laureen Hudson on “Creating an Online Presence”. Laureen’s know-how
and expertise were enough to wake up even the birth oldtimers like me and
Ina May to the many unused opportunities of the internet. Laureen’s
engaging and easygoing teaching style made even those scary (to me) terms
like “hypertext, streaming, wordpress, technorati, feedreader and trackback”
start to make sense. Her passion is to reach the generation of young
women who have not yet given birth BEFORE they fall into the black hole
of aggressive obstetrics. I came away from the class today with lots
of ways to improve my website and make it more modern, usable and interesting
for readers. This class will run again this coming Friday (August
22) and I heartily recommend it.
Cost: $35 per session Each session will be 60 minutes in length Creating An Online Presence
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From: C-upi@clari.net (UPI) Subject: Link challenged between abortion, cancer Organization: Copyright 1996 by United Press International Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:41:06 PDT UPI Science NewsHERSHEY, Pa., Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Researchers at Penn State's Hershey Medical Center reported Friday that women who have induced abortions have a 30 percent increased risk of developing breast cancer.
The research results were released at a press conference by the report's co-authors at Hershey Medical Center. The report was published by the British Medical Association's Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Other scientists, however, challenged both the methods and conclusions of the researchers.
``There is mistake after mistake (in the report),'' said Marilie Gammon of Columbia University School of Public Health in New York.
The researchers analyzed 23 studies that investigated nearly 26,000 women with breast cancer and nearly 35,000 without the disease. They found a link between abortions and breast cancer in 18 of the 23 studies, which increased the average woman's risk from 12 in 100 to about 16 in 100.
But some of the 23 studies are ``obviously poorly done, with a lot of bias,'' said Gammon. ``Yet those studies are given the same weight. Why should we believe people who are doing poor science?''
Additionally, Gammon said that an increase from 12 to 16 per 100 women over their lifetime is still low, especially when a single answer can influence the conclusion of a small study, and when reporting may or may not be accurate in the first place.
The researchers found no increased risk among women who had experienced
spontaneous abortions, or miscarriages.
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