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Joseph says that while midwifery generally works best for the majority of women who have healthy, low-risk pregnancies, those who have want or need to give birth with a physician can benefit from the midwife model of care too. Other midwives include certified professional midwives--what graduates of Joseph's program can become--direct entry midwives, and traditional lay midwives. Walks into the exam room in her Winter Garden, Fla., birth center and unleashes a crinkly-eyed smile at her patient, who is 34 weeks pregnant, and her patient's 4-year-old daughter. [Extracted from the article]

So more staff nurses quit to become contract nurses, further lowering the nurse supply and driving demand for contract nurses. Many staff nurses say the problem is not that travel nursing agencies are price gouging; it is that there aren't enough nurses to do an increasingly challenging job for relatively low staff wages. That fact isn't surprising--COVID-19 has transformed health care facilities, including Thomas Health's hospital system in Charleston, W.Va., where Kahn works--but the reasons may be. [Extracted from the article]

The ways that the ADA andother disability-rights laws have been implemented oftenrequire navigating a host of bureaucratic mazes to accesssupport. Gray says she is grateful for the activists who came beforeher, like Heumann, who passed the ADA and helped framethe battle for disability protections as a fight for equal rights.". [Extracted from the article]

MARCUS-DAVID PETERS HAD JUST LEFT his day job teaching high school biology and arrived at his second job at a hotel, where he worked as a part-time security guard, when he apparently experienced a psychiatric episode. While there is no reliable database tracking how many people with disabilities are shot by police each year, studies show that it's substantial -- likely between one-third and one-half of total police killings. The CAHOOTS program, which launched in the late '80s, receives roughly 24,000 calls each year; 17% of Eugene police calls are redirected to CAHOOTS, a boon to police departments, which can better use resources combatting crimes. [Extracted from the article]

A diagram is presented which compares the cumulative net worth value of the people who have been nominated for Cabinet officer positions by U.S. President Donald Trump with the net worth data for singer Taylor Swift and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.

Abortion-rights advocates say the 15-week bills are no compromise; they cut access and open the door to further bans. As the Supreme Court weighs a high-profile case that could unwind Roe v. Wade, lawmakers across the U.S. are introducing a wave of new bills limiting abortion at the state level. [Extracted from the article]

Biden also campaigned on a pledge to bring back bipartisanship, and that, too, seemed promising: in November, he signed a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill that got 19 Republican votes in the Senate, including that of GOP leader Mitch McConnell. Inside the White House, there's a belief that the press is overly negative, though if anything Biden has benefited with voters and the media alike from the low bar set by Trump. If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog, the old saying goes, but Biden can't even get that right: Major, a rescued German shepherd featured in Biden's campaign ads, was rehomed last month after injuring the President and biting two staffers. Last October, President Biden went to Capitol Hill to meet with the Democrats in the House of Representatives. [Extracted from the article]

The NeuroSphere Virtual Clinic, which received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in March, is available in the U.S. and several European countries; the company plans to expand availability soon. For patients suffering from chronic pain or movement disorders, visiting the doctor can be a serious ordeal. Abbott's NeuroSphere Virtual Clinic aims to help by enabling physicians to talk to their patients over a video app, as well as remotely adjust a range of Abbott's implanted neuro-modulation devices. [Extracted from the article]

But it's easy to miss a dose, so for most users, efficacy drops to 91%--which means nearly 1 million U.S. women a year have unplanned pregnancies, despite being on the pill. The case syncs with an app that increases accountability by sending custom reminders to take the pill, follows up if users don't remove a pill from the case, offers pill delivery, and lets users track their cycle and mood. The health-tech company Emme has developed a Bluetooth-connected smart case ($99) that works with more than 100 different brands of birth control pills. [Extracted from the article]

In the '90s and 2000s, state lawmakers passed more than two dozen restrictions on abortion, each of which came with new costs, paperwork, or staffing rules that pushed abortion clinics out of business. If the court allows states to ban abortion before viability, there are dozens of other abortion restrictions currently blocked or being challenged in lower courts that could be reconsidered too. Twelve states, including Mississippi, have what are known as "trigger laws" that ban nearly all abortions immediately or shortly following such a court decision. As the director and de facto head of security at the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi, Brewer is not easily spooked. [Extracted from the article]