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The Dangers of Childbirth in Southern Mexico

SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (April 20) -- Among dozens of other brightly dressed women, Eugenia Urbina has been waiting on the stairs of the main hospital in this central Chiapas town for nearly two hours. Nine months pregnant with her third child, the 24-year-old seeks prenatal care. The long wait makes her worry...

Household Toxics Reach Babies Even in Womb

(Nov. 17) -- It is one of the worst nightmares for a mother-to-be: She's poisoning the baby in her belly, and there is little she can do about it. Now new research out Tuesday has put hard numbers to those fears, showing that chemicals from everyday products contaminate women's bodies, and that their children enter the...