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Three times Hasrat Bibi gave birth. Each time her baby died before reaching the outside world. After the third, she was left a social outcast and unable to have more children, but in Afghanistan her story is all too familiar.Bibi first fell ...

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - She was 15 years old, heavily pregnant and had travelled eight days on the back of a donkey to reach hospital.Suffering from seizures and high blood pressure, she died soon after at the Herat Maternity Hospital in western ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of older new mothers in Israel finds that 8 in 10 experienced health problems during their pregnancies, and nearly half of their babies were smaller than average.First-time births over age 45 have more than tripled ...

Dead fetus found in bathroom of airplane in Philippines; flight arrived from Middle EastPolice say a dead fetus has been found in the bathroom of a plane that arrived in the Philippine capital. The gruesome discovery comes months after a woman gave ...

As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue, more and more American soldiers are surviving impossible injuries as the result of improved medical treatment and state-of-the-art rehabilitation. To help support the effort, journalist and television anchor Jane Pauley took part in a ...

Military police are investigating "despicable" fake calls to families of Canadian soldiers deployed in Afghanistan to say their sons or husbands had died in combat, authorities said Wednesday.The impostor telephone calls were made to families of soldiers based at Canadian Forces Base ...

It is popular in some circles to claim that the story of the virgin birth was a pagan insertion into the teaching of the early Church. Of course, people typically believe what they want to believe; but if facts make a difference ...

Even rumors of reinstatement of the draft need to be taken seriously. In a time when our country is involved in military action on several fronts and National Guard units have been activated, it is not unreasonable to suspect the issue of ...

My husband and?I are not the typical military family. Still, it was hard to?say goodbye to him when he?deployed to Iraq for six months. Basically, that means he's a member of the National Guard who works full time and gets paid from ...

A Flat Daddy (also Flat Mommy or Flat Soldier ) is a life-sized cardboard cut-out of someone absent from home, the idea being to keep connected to family members during a deployment. Flat Daddies came in fashion after the start of the ...

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Topic: Middle East

Dangers stalk childbearing women in Afghanistan

Giving birth is a battle for survival in Afghanistan

First baby over age 45? Expect complications: study

Dead fetus found in airplane bathroom in Manila

Disabled Veterans Forced to Rely on Parents for Caregiver Duties

Fake calls tell Canadians sons died in Afghanistan

The virgin birth: Myth or reality

Verifying the draft reinstatement rumor

The effects of deployment on military families

Flat Daddy

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