A High Court judge has ruled that a 32 year old woman with covid-19, in coma after giving birth to son, should be allowed die against the wishes of her husband and sister, “a tragedy almost unbearable dimension.” The woman, referred as NZ, contracted covid-19 but was reluctant go hospital when condition worsened, fearing she might not come out, sister told judge. She had been diagnosed past Ad...

MARCH 2003 The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada would like to emphasize that a complete medical examination should include a breast and pelvic examination. The following recommendations are made to physicians regarding clinical examination in the office and hospital setting: 1. It is a reasonable and acceptable practice to perform a breast and pelvic examination without the...

A commercial medium often assumed to exist solely for a juvenile and "lowbrow" audience, comic books have been largely ignored by academic scholarship. There are some exceptions within the fields of American studies-for instance, the work of Thomas Inge-popular culture studies, where writers gather in a Comic Arts subdivision of the Popular Culture Association, and cultural studies, with work b...

• Evidence of effectiveness: This intervention has been evaluated in six well-conducted randomized controlled trials, and found to produce a sizable increase in the quit rate: 13.9% of women assigned to the intervention quit smoking in the last 4-5 months of their pregnancy, compared with 8.3% of the women assigned to the control group. In almost all cases, these effects were statistically-sign...

The main idea of this research is to analyse the English modals in Obama's speech semantically. modal auxiliaries selected for analysis include (Will, Would, Can, Could, and Should). All are interpreted based on framework Coates’ (1983) semantic clusters. qualitative method applied into study. auxiliary ‘can’ signifying possibility functions evoke positive emotions connotations mind all listene...