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birth con·trol pill
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n.
a contraceptive pill.
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Births in the U.S. Decrease for the First Time Since 1990
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 8/8/2000; 700+ words
; ...Newswire/ -- The number of births in the United States rose in...new report released today. "Births: Final Data for 1998," prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National...percent increase from 1997. The birth rate (the number of births per 1,000 population) and...
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BIRTHS IN THE U.S. INCREASE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1990
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data; 3/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...00-00-0000 The number of births in the United States rose in...new report released today. Births: Final Data for 1998, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National...percent increase from 1997. The birth rate (the number of births per 1,000 population) and...
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Birth and Rogers' pandimensional seeds.(Martha E. Rogers)(Science of Unitary Human Beings)
Magazine article from: Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...of truth and knowledge gave birth to new life for the profession...disciplines to plant seeds to control nursing could not germinate...profession of nursing. The birth of new ideas. Rogers is a...birth. We can be proud of our birth as Rogerian scholars. It is...continue with our visions of ...
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Birth plan decision-making: Patterns of interaction
Magazine article from: International Journal of Childbirth Education; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Springer 1996). The notions of birth plans and childbirth education...linked since the formulation of a birth plan results from some kind...childbirth, a sense of personal control, and reduced anxiety are all...variables predictive of a positive birth experience (Crowe and von Baeyer...
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Birth weight linked to infant mortality.(Pregnancy and Birth)
Newspaper article from: Special Delivery; 3/22/2005; 700+ words
; The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compared birth...deaths were attributed to low birth weight. The increase is seen...dramatically in extremely low birth weight babies (less than 750...The number of extremely low birth weight babies increased by almost 500 births from 2001 ...
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Second births to teenage mothers: risk factors for low birth weight and preterm birth.(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...repeat childbearing. Many birth databases contain information on previous live births, but do not link births...not first and second births to the same mother...same mother provides control for biological factors...linkage to identify repeat births to Milwaukee teenagers...with ...
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Birth defects surveillance registries in the United States and Europe
Magazine article from: International Journal of Childbirth Education; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...system, (2) state-based birth defects prevention and intervention...and professional awareness of birth defects and prevention opportunities...authorized CDC (Centers for Disease Control), an agency of the Department...analysis of epidemiological data on birth defects and to establish a national...
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Birth weight can predict diseases.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/31/2003; 700+ words
; ...unearths the relationships between birth size and adulthood diseases, obstetricians...pregnancy to improve a fetus's birth weight. Although genetics plays...diet and lifestyle carefully cannot control their babies' birth weight entir
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US births break record; 40 pct out-of-wedlock
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/18/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...harder to understand why teen births had been declining for about...concentrated effort to reduce teen births in the 1990s that has waned...based on a review of most 2007 birth certificates by the National...of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers...accounting for almost a ...
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Birth defects information lacking, survey finds.
Newspaper article from: State Health Watch; 5/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...statewide coverage, cover all birth defects, and report information...that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta should help fund birth defects programs in every state...and possible links between birth defects and environmental exposures...
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Birth Control
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
BIRTH CONTROL Control or regulation of conception and birth, either to limit population growth, to increase births among particular populations, or to...through medical intervention. The terms birth control and family planning (in the...
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birth
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...between human and higher primate birth. Because higher primates walk...easy labours and uncomplicated births. When humans began to walk...Jordan's work on American birth was expanded by anthropologists...suggested that American hospital birth, like much of American society...production and the ...
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Birth Control Movement
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT. A birth...wrote the first major American book on birth control, Moral Physiology; or, A Brief and...in 1832 a more thoroughgoing tract on birth control, Fruits of Philosophy; or, The Private...
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Birth Control Pill
Book article from: How Products Are Made
Birth Control Pill Background Oral contraceptives...released during the monthly cycle. The birth control pill also contains a second synthetic...pregnancy. Studies have shown that the birth control pill is 99% effective in preventing...
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Birth
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...triplets. Other animals give birth to many offspring at a time...eggs, but the armadillo gives birth to four identical offspring...initiation of labor leading up to birth is the result of a number of...uterine contractions and also controls the production of milk in the...
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