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"Sam is cohost of The Great Equalizer podcast. She is Mom to Elijah (4) and Noah (4 mo) and is married to Ray." Supplied/The Great Equalizer I spent the first half of my pregnancy convinced that my baby was not going to make it. I had no reason to be nervous. I'd never miscarried before, my first pregnancy wasn’t high risk, and each time I saw my doctor, she confirmed that everything was progressing as it should be. That said, stories of baby loss were following me around. While miscarriage and stillbirths are commonplace enough, so many of my friends and close acquain...

Why It Can Be Harder To Fight Hookworms In Alabama Than In Argentina This story definitely has a yuck factor. It's about hookworms. When hookworm eggs land on moist, warm ground, via human feces, they develop into larvae, raise their tiny selves upward, and wave back and forth, looking for bare feet to latch onto. The parasites penetrate the skin, enter the bloodstream, and eventually migrate to the small intestine — where they settle in, mature and start sucking blood and laying eggs. When the worms and their eggs are passed in a host's stool, the cycle begins anew. Hookworm disease flo...

A Million Dollar Prize For A Doc Who Believes In 'Accompaniment' at 7:21 am NPR When Dr. Paul Farmer learned that he would receive a million-dollar award for his work, he was a bit ... baffled. He is a Harvard Medical School professor, medical anthropologist and co-founder of Partners In Health, an organization whose mission is to bring modern medical care to those in need around the world. But the words "medicine" or "health" do not appear in the award, announced Dec. 16. It is the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. "I was a little shocked to get a prize with the...

Legalize fourth trimester abortion. currently it's illegal in all 50 states. >> does it cause harm to the child? >> i mean, the child wouldn't thereby anymore. it's abortion. the child is gonna. we believe it's a child and a choice. can you help us out today? thank you so much. we love planned parenthood and men in washington saying you do not get to make the rules about what a woman can do with her body. down with that? >> i'm down. >> cool. >> alisyn: look, obviously this stunt has a lot more to do with alcohol consumption on campus than abortion. i mean, people are just signing anything. >>...

And others, it's hard to trust the people we put in power. meanwhile, not far from the capital is george mason university. it's interesting, media research center, which is a conservative media watchdog, sent a reporter by the name of dan joseph out to the campus there and he had in his hand a petition asking students there, college students to sign a fourth trimester abortion bill. keep in mind, trimester means three parts. a fourth trimester would be after the baby is born. so could you abort the baby after the baby is born? that's infanticide. >> peter: that's incredible. >> steve: it is, b...