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Our Ask the Labor Nurse blogger, Jeanne Faulkner, R.N., recently traveled to Peru with CARE, a global humanitarian organization working to improve access and quality of healthcare for pregnant women and mothers around the world. Here, you can read along as Jeanne blogs about her trip and her ongoing work with CARE. See what a big impact her trip has already made, and find out what you can do to get involved.Featured Blogs Why Care? Jeanne introduces our new project with CARE Planning for Peru Jeanne's trip begins to take shape Christy Turlington and CARE Circles of Life Arriving in Peru Day One: Landing in Lima Arriving in Peru Day One: Landing in Lima, Continued Starting to Care Day Two, Part I: Jeanne meets her team Starting to Care Day Two, Part II: Bird's eye view of how health care works Day Three: Jeanne's Biggest Day Ever The road to Vilcashuaman Day Three: Jeanne's Biggest Day Ever, Part II Jeanne interviews the doctors and midwives who run the health clinic in Vilcashuaman. Da
We know too much stress can cause major health drama, including heart disease, depression, headaches, overeating, and loss of sex drive. Fun, huh? Even mild stress makes it harder to get in a good workout. To help you balance today's treacherous times ? in and out of the workplace ? we've pulled together four easy stress-management survival tricks.
The euro fell sharply against the dollar on Monday after European Union leaders ruled out a regional bailout plan for Eastern Europe at a weekend summit, analysts said.
The dollar dropped against the euro, yen and British pound on Friday as traders braced for a report expected to show massive job losses in the United States, analysts said.
Nick Schuyler's survival story after spending 46 hours clinging to an overturned boat was a miracle, his doctor said Wednesday, saying that his fitness from American football helped save his life.
The International Criminal Court decides on Wednesday whether or not to indict Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
US Coast Guard officials halted a search on Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico for two missing National Football League players and a friend because there was little hope of finding survivors.
The US Coast Guard planned to halt a search on Tuesday for two National Football League players, who went missing along with a friend on a fishing trip, because there was little hope of finding survivors.
The US Coast Guard planned to halt a search on Tuesday for two National Football League players, who went missing along with a friend on a fishing trip, because there was little hope of finding survivors.
The US Coast Guard planned to halt a search on Tuesday for two National Football League players, who went missing along with a friend on a fishing trip, because there was little hope of finding survivors.
Montecore sat onstage, uncaged, unleashed. A few feet away stood Roy Horn, donning a Gothic-style, black-and-white stage costume and acknowledging an audience standing and applauding a singular dramatic moment in Las Vegas history.
In 2000, a year after his father sold his Rio casino and began planning Steve Wynn?s Wynn Las Vegas and Encore casinos, Anthony Marnell III founded a company that makes planning software for contractors, architects and engineers.
Recession be damned, racing pries open fans? wallets. Long before Kyle Busch, the hometown kid with an anvil for a right foot, sped under the checkered flag at Las Vegas Motor Speedway late Sunday afternoon, racing fans of all shapes, sizes and colored T-shirts with their favorite driver?s picture on front began pulling their SUVs and pickup trucks into the massive parking lots abutting the 1.5-mile speed plant.
They are Las Vegas? perfect couple ? perfect bodies, perfect smiles, perfect tans that accentuate perfect teeth. They have stylish blond hair, chic wardrobes, lots of bling, energy to burn and enthusiasm that gets a room rocking.
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With a district judge having exempted state lawmakers
Report suggests charity stashing away inordinate amount of money in a reserve fund. The biggest charity serving the U.S. military has gotten an ?F? from a national watchdog group that says not enough money is going to soldiers and their families when compared with the money the fund has on hand.
Under Bush, the U.S. lacked a coordinated policy to fight terror in Afghanistan. Last year the Government Accountability Office told several federal agencies they needed to develop a comprehensive plan to root out terrorists along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and increase accountability.
School Board adopts proposal to change rule about when citizen comments are heard. Concerned constituents who speak at a public meeting get frustrated if they sense their words are not considered before elected officials vote on the issue that motivated them to attend.
Regents explain why they took chancellor to task for his latest blast at Gibbons. Sniping between the chancellor of Nevada?s public higher education system and Gov. Jim Gibbons over budget cuts reached a crescendo as the chancellor labeled Gibbons a ?greedy, uninterested, unengaged human being? in a Feb. 22 opinion piece in Carson City?s Nevada Appeal.
The 15-year-old idea to build a science museum in Henderson has taken a baby step closer to reality.
The Nevada attorney general?s office has filed a criminal complaint against the man behind the collapse of Southwest Exchange Inc. in 2007.
There?s often a horse-out-of-the-barn quality to the work of Nevada?s Legislature, as it is often forced to react to problems months or even years after the original effects are felt.
Unfair share: Why might Clark County be short-changed out of millions in federal stimulus money for transportation projects? Jon asks Regional Transportation Commission General Manager Jacob Snow and former Clark County Commissioner Bruce Woodbury about that and more.
As the citys Election Day approaches, the Las Vegas City Council is gearing up the machinery to bring to the ballot two questions it doesnt want asked and is opposing as strenuously as possible.
End of construction boom will reshape valley in ways good and bad. The disco days are dead, that much is certain.
Local officials are working up numbers to show how much rest of state gets from us. Taxpayers in Clark County contribute more to the state than they get back from it in services, say county officials girding for a fight with the revenue-starved state government.
About 30,000 LG 830 "Spyder" Cell Phones are being recalled because they can have difficulty sustaining a connection or have poor voice quality on calls to emergency 911.
Mazada is recalling about 30,000 CX9 vehicles from the 2007-2009 model years because of a problem with the power seat's position memory function.
Service lures buyers into paying for credit monitoring. It's always a good time to check your credit reports and make sure there are no errors or problems that could keep you from getting a loan. Unfortunately, many people still end up getting roped into paying for services they don't need when trying to get their report.
Many young adults still pick up financial acumen the hard way. Today's teens are falling behind in personal finance education but have a desire to catch up.
Lack of healthy diet cuts across ethnic groups. Calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C play essential roles in maintaining health, yet older adults who reduce food intake may be running a nutrition deficit that could affect their health.
English midfielder David Beckham would complete the Italian season with AC Milan and return to the Los Angeles Galaxy in mid-July under a deal in the works, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Rescuers saved 54 pilot whales after nearly 200 of the giant creatures beached themselves on an island off the southern coast of mainland Australia, officials said Tuesday.
When it came to property grabs, the regime of executed dictator Saddam Hussein was more than fair: it took what it could from the people, no matter what their religious persuasion or ethnic origins.
Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has brushed aside his side's Premier League title decline by insisting that finishing second will still be an achievement.
Italy's top two sides will switch off from their Serie A and Champions League challenges in midweek to try to take a step closer to a Coppa Italia final appearance.
Frank Lampard believes Guus Hiddink can mastermind an incredible late charge for the Premier League title.
They came to Postville, Iowa hoping for a better future. But a major immigration raid on the biggest local employer devastated the town and dashed the dreams of workers who traveled to the rural midwest state from as far away as Palau.
A virulent strain of influenza sowing misery across the United States is proving resistant to what had been until recently the most effective anti-viral drugs, according to a study released Monday.
A testosterone patch aimed at boosting the sex drive of women with low hormone levels caused by womb and ovary removal may not work and its long-term safety is unknown, a medical journal reported Tuesday.
Young children who watch lots of television each day could be at risk of developing asthma, according to a study published on Tuesday.
Global banking titan HSBC revealed on Monday that it needs nearly 18 billion dollars of new capital to withstand the financial crisis and announced 6,100 US job cuts after a profit collapse.
Britain's security services spied on a world-renowned US photographer and a Swedish actress, fearing they were communists, secret files released Tuesday showed.
Global banking titan HSBC revealed on Monday that it needs nearly 18 billion dollars of new capital to withstand the financial crisis and announced 6,100 US job cuts after a profit collapse.
Australian share prices fell 2.54 percent at the open Tuesday as the market mirrored international concerns over the financial sector that led to sharp losses in the US and Europe, dealers said.
Rescuers saved 54 pilot whales after nearly 200 of the giant creatures beached themselves on an island off the southern coast of mainland Australia, officials said Tuesday.
The White House predicted Monday that Ronald Kirk, President Barack Obama's nominee to be US Trade Representative would win Senate approval, despite some past errors on his tax returns.
Microsoft announced on Monday that it is going intercontinental with touch-screen Surface computers and a suite of business software offered online as services "in the cloud."
EU environment ministers on Monday failed to agree on how to support poorer nations to fund the fight against climate change, and kicked the problem upstairs to the heads of state and government.
