Pregnancy Week 2: All about Your Unborn Child and You

In the first week of pregnancy, the doctor will be able to calculate the due date of delivering your baby. The calculations are based on the information you last ovulated. As we know, life begins at conception and within 40 weeks, you will be delivering the baby.  The journey of unborn human starts from the egg that leaves from the ovary and travels towards the fallopian tubes where the fertilization process begins.

The egg, when fertilized within 12 to 24 hours reaches the uterus expecting the fertilized egg.

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Fact Check: Health Care Claims In Republican Debate

News organizations have been looking into candidates’ statements from Thursday night’s debate, including one by Gov. Rick Perry about Mitt Romney’s book, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Perry on the HPV vaccine and Herman Cain on his cancer and the health law. 

Kaiser Health News provides video clips and a transcript of the exchanges.

Politifact.com/St. Petersburg Times: Rick Perry Says Mitt Romney Shifted Stance When He Deleted Health Care Line From His Book Perry’s right that Romney’s comments about health care were edited between editions. Among other things, a line that advocated the Massachusetts model as a strong option for other states was replaced by a shorter, more generic sentence. Bu

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Sharing Burdens of Living With AIDS

Rogerio Bernardo slung a black satchel over his shoulder and waited by the roadside in the morning mist for a bush taxi. In dusty wingtips, frayed pants and a gray pinstripe suit coat so big it swallowed his slender frame, he looked like any peasant farmer dressed up for a trip to town.

In fact, Mr. Bernardo, who has AIDS, is in the vanguard of a promising new effort to reverse one of the most worrisome trends in treating the disease: the growing number of patients across Africa who fail to collect their lifesaving antiretroviral medicines.

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Cantaloupe Outbreak Could Be Deadliest In A Decade

As many as 14 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes a death toll that would make the outbreak the deadliest in more than a decade.

The Centers for Disease Control said last week that 55 illnesses and eight deaths were linked to the outbreak. Since then, state and local health departments in Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming have reported six additional deaths that may be linked to the tainted fruit.

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How Much Exercise Do You Need?

Do you spend countless hours at the gym each day or is the thought of a 20-minute workout too much for you to handle? Tackling a regular exercise routine can be daunting and might cause you to give up on working out all together. Use these tips to make the most of your exercise time.

According to the American College of Sports Medicine and the CDC , you should shoot for 150 minutes of moderate-intensity per week. You can break up this time in a variety of ways. Feel the burn for 30 minutes, 5 days a week or try a split of 30 and 60-minute workouts over the course of 3 days.

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