5 h. ago Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say

Women reported miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled, as well as held in solitary confinement, letter saysPregnant women have reported bleeding, miscarriages, being shackled and other instances of medical neglect while in US immigration custody, according to a group of prominent civil rights organizations.The groups – which include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and its Louisiana chapter, the National Immigration Project, Robert F Kennedy Human Rights, Sanctuary of the South and Sanctuary Now Abolition Project – sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Senate committees on Wednesday, describing interviews with more than a dozen women. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Immigrant rights group calls for removing pregnant women from detention

The American Civil Liberties Union is alleging that pregnant detainees being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Louisiana and Georgia are being mistreated and receiving inadequate care

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13 h. ago It’s great to see pregnant women in the public eye – but must they all be so gorgeous? | Coco Khan

Call me cynical, but I have a feeling Victoria’s Secret wouldn’t have sent a heavily pregnant model down the runway if she looked like most of us do at that stageDetermined to find new ways to stay in the headlines, the underwear brand Victoria’s Secret recently had the model Jasmine Tookes – one of its most longstanding “angels” – open its runway show nine months pregnant. As a postpartum woman myself, my first thought, of course, was: “Finally! A pregnant woman I can relate to.” Only joking: it was a deep concern for her ankles, followed by a wish that one day the modelling industry will solve its recruitment crisis, because surely short-staffing is the only justifiable reason for wanting a heavily pregnant woman to work.Nonetheless, body image and pregnancy have been on my mind recently. It is a curious thing, giving birth. We are all here because someone did it, yet what happens to women, mentally and physically, remains less known than, say, Liz Truss losing to a lettuce. And e...

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24 h. ago Today show legend and sportscaster Bryant Gumbel rushed to NYC hospital after medical emergency: report

The sportscaster, 77, was reportedly rushed to a hospital in New York City

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3 d. ago NHS and UKHSA urges pregnant women to 'act now' before they give birth

Health experts have stressed it could save your baby's life

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5 d. ago West London borough to routinely ask women if they're pregnant after baby found dead in bag

West London borough to routinely ask women if they're pregnant after baby found dead in bag  MyLondon

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8 d. ago ‘The act of someone who was enraged at her’: Medical experts slam newest Ellen Greenberg suicide report

Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Lindsay Simon concluded that Ellen Greenberg’s death “is best classified as ‘suicide,’” despite new findings revealing three additional stab wounds and 20 new bruises

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1 week ago ‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked inFifteen years ago, having said all my life that I never wanted a baby, that I couldn’t fathom why any free woman would do such a thing to her body and her mind, I suddenly and passionately wanted a child. I remember where I was when this feeling, so heretical to me, arrived: it was early morning in London, and having come down Fleet Street on my way to work, I was standing at the till of a newsagents to pay for a Diet Coke, a flapjack and a pack of Silk Cut. There were no children there and no pregnant women; nothing had been said or done to change my mind. It had simply landed on me, and more or less immediately – because I’ve never known how to control an impulse, and because I was 30, which seemed to me then a great age – my husband, Robert, and I set about trying to have a child.When for s...

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1 week ago DVLA rules as motorists could lose licence over use of three common medicines

UK motorists have been warned that they could have their driving licence revoked by the DVLA if they don't report certain medications they are taking

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2 w. ago Drivers must report anxiety and 187 other medical conditions to DVLA

Motorists are being urged to check whether their ability to drive might be affected.

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2 w. ago Hospital bosses ridiculed for their 'woke hogwash' after claiming local maternity unit was for 'women and people who are pregnant'

Critics including the local MP demanded James Paget Hospital in Norfolk remove the 'unscientific nonsense'. One said: 'Who trusts a hospital that doesn't know that only women get pregnant?'

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2 w. ago British Airways flight chaos as man dies and pregnant woman suffers medical episode

A flight en route to Nigeria had to divert to Barcelona after a passenger on the plane died, triggering a medical episode involving a pregnant women

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2 w. ago Major warning as 188 medical conditions could affect your ability to drive

Failing to report certain medical conditions to the DVLA could result in a fine of up to 1,000 - and there are 188 different conditions that could affect your ability to drive

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2 w. ago Pregnant women and pensioners massively underrepresented in TV adverts, research finds

Disabled people were also among the least represented groups in TV adverts, despite accounting for a significant proportion of the United Kingdom’s population

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3 w. ago ‘Will my baby be born in a tent? Will it have food?’: what it’s like to be pregnant in Gaza

The World Health Organization has warned that more than 40% of pregnant women in the Gaza Strip are malnourished. Here, Nour Ziad al-Batsh, who is expecting her third child in March, describes her daily struggle to find food and healthcareThis pregnancy is not like my others. I have not been allowed to feel the joy I felt last time, to plan for the future and dream about where my child will go to school and how to decorate his room. In Gaza these days, I can only wonder whether I can find food to keep my baby healthy and how it will be to give birth in a tent.The natural joys I felt for the births of my daughter and son have been overwhelmed by depression, fear and anxiety because of this continuing genocide. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abusesBilled as “the biggest comedy festival in the world”, the inaugural Riyadh Comedy festival, which is running 26 September to 9 October, features some of the biggest names in US comedy. The lineup features Dave Chappelle, Louis CK, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari and Jo Koy, among many others who are all taking their fees directly from the Saudi government.The event’s producers include Sela (a live events company owned by Saudia Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund) and the kingdom’s General Entertainment Authority, chaired by Turki Alalshikh, a royal adviser dogged by allegations of human rights violations, including the detention of people who criticize him on social media. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Drivers risk £1,000 fine for not reporting seven medical conditions

The DVLA has issued guidance on medical conditions that could affect your driving, and failing to report them could result in a fine of up to 1,000

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3 w. ago What REALLY causes autism? From too much screentime to pollution and diet – the experts separate fact from fiction

DONALD Trump caused uproar this week when he claimed that pregnant women who take paracetamol are more likely to have an autistic child, telling mums-to-be to “fight like hell not to take it”. Doctors, scientists and politicians slammed the US President as “dangerous” and “fear-mongering”, reassuring parents paracetamol is safe to take. Trump linked autism...

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3 w. ago Autistic people could teach Donald Trump a thing or two about focus, facts and empathy | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

While not without its challenges, autism isn’t a curse to be cured of, as the likes of the US president and RFK Jr want us to believeDonald Trump’s claims about autism deserve as little oxygen as possible, but it’s been a depressing, infuriating week for many autistic people and those of us who love them. His administration unveiled contentious claims about the causes of autism – pregnant women taking Tylenol, also known as paracetamol – and pushed for research to find a “cure”. It got me thinking about how to cope psychologically, and my conclusion – and that of many of my friends in the autism community – is that you have to laugh or you’ll cry.There’s a saying that when you’ve met one autistic child, you’ve met one autistic child. I’ve never loved the “autism as superpower” narrative, and how it erases those with high-support needs and the challenges autistic people can face. Equally, Trump’s framing of autism as a tragedy and a disease in need of curing is deeply problematic, so...

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3 w. ago When I was 19 when I went to the doctor in crippling pain, he told me to get pregnant... and thousands of women have similar stories to me

Tiffany Summerfield, (pictured) from Cardiff, was diagnosed with endometriosis when she was just 19 years old. She has since been told by doctors that she needs to think about her fertility

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