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Source: The Conversation – USA – By Eli Gottlieb, Senior Visiting Scholar in Education and Human Development, George Washington University Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the world’s capitals in mid-May 2021 blamed the Israeli government for recent bloodshed in Israel and Gaza, and called on world leaders to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu into calling a ceasefire. Protesters emphasized the perceived power imbalance between Israel and Palestine. According to...

 E-Mail Pregnant women made only modest dietary changes after being diagnosed with gestational diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health. Women with gestational diabetes are generally advised to reduce their carbohydrate intake, and the women in the study did cut their daily intake of juice and added sugars. They also increased their intake of cheese and artificially sweetened beverages. However, certain groups of women did not reduce their carbohydrate...

And while glucose levels will return to normal once the mother delivers, she remains at higher risk of developing diabetes later in life. There are risks for her baby, too. Babies born to women with gestational diabetes tend to be bigger and are at higher risk for preterm birth, still birth, breathing difficulties and low blood sugar. They are also more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Doctors usually test for gestational diabetes between 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy. While some women may exp...

New UMaine special education leadership certificate available this fall  Tue, 05/18/2021 - 5:00pm The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development and UMaineOnline will begin offering a new graduate certificate in Special Education Leadership this fall. The Maine Department of Education lists Teacher of Students with Disabilities among the state’s teacher shortage areas. The new graduate certificate is designed to address an accompanying shortage of special educat...

Israelis and Palestinians See Election Schemes Fueling the Latest Gaza War On 5/18/21 at 5:18 PM EDT Both Israeli and Palestinian officials have identified what they view as ulterior motives on the part of rival leaders, whom they see as attempting to cling to or usurp power by fueling the current war being waged between the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian factions operating out of the Gaza Strip. The conflict, now in its second week, called "Operation Guardian of the Walls" by the IDF an...

Sri Lankan garment workers seek urgent government help Pandemic takes its toll on the lucrative garment industry as infections rise among factory workers Updated: May 17, 2021 06:38 AM GMT Trending A deserted street during government-imposed travel restrictions and a weekend lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Colombo on May 15. (Photo: AFP) Garment workers in Sri Lanka’s free trade zones have urged the government to protect their lives as the Covid-19 pandemic spreads rapidly in th...

WHYY By Delawares General Assembly seal. State Sen. Bryant Richardson’s second attempt this year to require doctors to offer an ultrasound or fetal heartbeat monitor to patients seeking an abortion appears to be on its way to a similar fate as his first attempt. In March, he struck the first bill that would have implemented the ultrasound requirement after it was introduced in January. He introduced a replacement bill in April that would create civil and criminal penalties for doctors who fai...

17/05/2021 Dr Jones Irwin, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Education, School of Human Development was one of the invited keynote speakers for the 2 ND International Conference of Pedagogical Research on the 15 th-16 th May, 2021. The ICOPR conference this year was a virtual one, organized through Universiti Utara, Malaysia and Duzce University, Turkey. Dr Irwin’s presentation was entitled ‘ Developing an Existential Education in Response to the Pandemic’, which explored the resourc...

 E-Mail Early preterm births may be dramatically decreased with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplements, with a dose of 1000 mg more effective for pregnant women with low DHA levels than the 200 mg found in some prenatal supplements, according to a study led by researchers from the University of Kansas and the University of Cincinnati and published today in EClinicalMedicine, a clinical journal of The Lancet. Early preterm birth, defined as birth before 34 weeks gestation, is a serious public ...

“Fertility issues can have a profound biopsychosocial impact on a woman’s life,” says Dr Tara Wyne, a clinical psychologist at The Lighthouse Arabia in Dubai. “Women often hold assumptions that if and when they want to conceive and start a family they will be able to do so at will. However, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, infertility affects almost 11 per cent of women and 9 per cent of men.” While headlines are often made by older celebrity ...