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VOA慢速英语2012 Health Report - Delay Pregnancy After a Miscarriage?

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美国国家公共电台 NPR Rethinking Bed Rest For Pregnancy

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Doctors send thousands of pregnant women to bed each year, some for just a few days, some for months. The idea is that laying still may help women with complicated pregnancies carry their babies to term. But the practice is quest

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VOA标准英语2010年-Malnutrition in Pregnancy May Set Stag

A new study suggests that extreme malnutrition early in pregnancy may put a child at risk for Alzheimer's Disease decades later. The study begins not in the laboratory, but in the Netherlands during World War II. At the end of 1944, Nazi occupation f

VOA慢速英语-Health Report - Teenagers and Pregnancy

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. A 16-year-old mother receives care for her baby at a mobile health clinic in Garland, Texas, in a 2006 photo More than seven hundred thousand teenagers a year get pregnant in the United States. The teen

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By Selah Hennessy London 22 September 2009 Maternal deaths in Sierra Leone are a human-rights emergency, says a new report from Amnesty International, which cites that one in eight women risks dying during pregnancy in the West African country. Worl

VOA标准英语2010年-Haitians See Pregnancies Rise in Quake

Since a January earthquake in Haiti, tent camps have become home to hundreds of thousands of people, including newly pregnant women. Some Haitians fear unplanned pregnancies in the camps may fuel a baby boom in the capital. Denise Cheristal, 35, know

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Scientists are using DNA to trace illegal ivory from slaughtered elephants to its countries of origin in an effort to nab poachers. Researchers are trying to combat the multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise at its source. A poached elephant Since

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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his discoveries of mechanisms of whats known as autophagy. Break the word down and you get auto and phagy: from the Greek for self, auto, and eating, phagein. So, se

World Population Day Themed Adolescent Pregnancy

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Used to be, teenage kids had to carry around a bag of flour wrapped in a blanket to learn the responsibilities of parenthood. But these days? The same lesson is taught with hi-tech dolls that cry and record every interaction. You know they get grumpy

纯正英语一分钟-Pregnancy

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Philippine death toll due to "Bopha" climbs to 418

MANILA, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- Death toll in the Philippines due to Typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo) has continued to rise to 418 based on the latest data released Friday by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC). NDRRMC Exe

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