Topic: Pregnancy News – High Court to Take U... Hulteen, 74, contends that her employer, Pacific Bell — now AT&T — did not properly weigh her pregnancy leave into her retirement and other benefits. The case centers on whether women who took pregnancy leave before 1979, when the Pregnancy Discrimination Act went into effect, should be entitled to the benefits the law provides. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act, an amendment to Title VII of the...

Topic: Pregnancy News – School official cast... A supposed “pregnancy pact” that drew worldwide attention to eight teenage girls at a Massachusetts high school may be fiction, the city’s school board chairman says. Reporters took notice of the fishing community northeast of Boston last week after reports that 18 girls at Gloucester High School — more than four times last year’s total — learned they were pregnant this spring,...

HealthWatch: Fish Consumption & Pregnancy (WCB... Certain seafoods are reportedly high in mercury, and this balance between the good and the bad of fish is most important for pregnant women. Mercury builds up in fish living in water contaminated by industrial pollution. Wu says pregnant women should eat seafood, but the kind of fish matters. Salmon, tilapia, perch and shrimp were some of the fish found to have the least amount of mercury, and according to Dr. read...