PHOENIX, Ariz. – A mother goes against doctor’s advice and beats the odds after an unusual pregnancy that, if gone wrong, could have cost them their lives.
Nicolette Soto, 27, found out 18 weeks into her pregnancy that her baby wasn’t growing in her womb.
Instead, the embryo that should have been growing in her uterus never got there and planted at the end of her fallopian tube, according to doctors at the Maternal Fetal Medicine Center at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital.
It’s known as a Cornual Ectopic pregnancy, which is very rare. Doctors advised Soto to terminate the pregnancy due to the risk, which is normal protocol.
“Cornual pregnancies will typically rupture at 12 to 14 weeks and cause bleeding and require an emergency operation. For some reason , hers did not,” said Dr. Rodney Edwards.
Soto decided to keep the baby.
“She was just sure that this was going to be, that everything was going to be fine.
MBABANE, Swaziland Swaziland’s government has run out of money to send its cancer patients to neighboring South Africa for treatment, and a spokeswoman said Thursday the tiny impoverished kingdom does not have any government hospitals that can provide chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
Some patients already have been forced to suspend their treatment because money has run out for them, said Zanele Nkambule, secretary of the Cancer Association of Swaziland.
“Once radiation or chemotherapy is started the patient has to finish all the six or eight cycles,” she said.
A smoking habit is so hard to break that it doesnt seem possible that a series of simple encouraging text messages could help in any significant way.
But a study of wannabe quitters published by the Lancet suggests that those messages act like a little electronic Jiminy Cricket, doubling the quit rate compared to people who received texts unrelated to quitting. Of 2,911 smokers randomly assigned to the no-smoking texts, 10.7% were abstinent six months out. Only 4.9% of the 2,881 smokers getting texts unrelated to quitting did so.
People got five text messages daily for the first five weeks and then three per week for the next six months, the study says.
Other studies have also found a positive effect from text messages, but the authors (led by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) say this is the first to actually verify whether people had quit by testing saliva for a byproduct of nicotine called cotinine.
The texts worked equally well among older and younger people, and among people of different socioeconomic groups.
The mystery is why they worked, the authors write.
For my non-Canadian readers that photo up above is known as poutine, and it’s French fries, smothered in cheese curds, smothered in gravy, and it’s a bone of contention for Registered Dietitian Natasha McLaughlin-ChaissonLooking through Osteoporosis Canada’s website she came across their list of foods that were good sources of calciumIncluded in their listing?Well poutine of course, and also Velveeta, and nachos with cheese Kraft Dinner, pizza, and ice-cream make it onto the list too, albeit as lesser sources of calcium Now one way to read this, is that all Osteoporosis Canada is doing, is providing the calcium information of what they refer to as, “Common Foods” – foods we’re eating anyhowOf course another way to read this is the way Natasha did, whereby she wonders whether or not their inclusion as high sources of calcium might represent an endorsement from Osteoporosis Canada, who in turn are nutritionally whitewashing the consumption of poutine, Velveeta, nachos and ice cream in the name of calcium Natasha’s right, and I’ll tell you whyNatasha contacted Osteoporosis Canada with her concerns After much run around she was told that the inclusion of the nachos and poutine will be looked at by a committee when they got a chance, but that one of their dietitians had approved their inclusions So?
Ron Avidan was in attendance for the 2011 NPC and IFBB California show. He captured all the action for Bodybuilding.com and you can check out all the winners here. Congratulations to everyone who competed and achieved their goals.
IFBB California Pro and NPC California State photos available here.
