The Pregnancy Support Center of Pampa and Hope House Maternity Home are looking for participants for their &#8220Walk for Life” fund-raiser. Anyone interested in making the two-mile walk is encouraged to pick up a form at the office and get sponsors to pledge money on their behalf. Director Monica Galloway said that participitants have the next week and a half to get family, friends or businesses to sponsor them and pledge any amount of money for a donation. The Pregnancy Support Center provides free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, diapers, formula and clothing to those who cannot afford these items due to different circumstances. Hope House Maternity Home, which has been open since October, provides housing to pregnant women who do not have any other place to go during their pregnancy and birth of their baby. April 29 at Recreation Park, go by the Pregnancy Support Center at 110 E. read more

CDC ” /> CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey), and the teen pregnancy and birth rates have declined by one- third since the early 1990s, the United States still has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the industrialized world, and 3 in 10 teen girls get pregnant at least once before their 20th birthday. All such data and trends suggest that if the nation is to make further progress in delaying sexual activity and preventing early pregnancy and parenthood, our collective efforts will need to be more creative, more intense, and more targeted. We applaud this carefully conducted evaluation of selected abstinence programs and encourage researchers, policymakers and others to continue to push hard for research-based solutions to preventing early pregnancy and parenthood. Founded in 1996, the National Campaign is a private, nonprofit organization with the goal of reducing the teen pregnancy rate by one-third between 2006 and 2015. read more

Among a wide variety of foods eaten and recorded by the pregnant women, only apple consumption showed a consistent protective association with the occurrence of childhood wheeze and asthma, according to the team's report published in the medical journal Thorax. The researchers found that children of moms who munched on more than 4 apples per week were 37 percent less likely to have a history of wheezing and 53 percent less likely to have doctor-confirmed asthma, compared to moms who ate one or no apples per week while pregnant. The specific association found with apples, and not with the total amount of fruits eaten or with citrus, fruit juice or vegetable consumption, hints at an apple-specific effect, the researchers say, possible because of its phytochemical content, such as flavonoids, which have been shown to have beneficial effects on adult lung function. Children of mothers who ate fish once per week or more while pregnant had a 43 percent lower risk of eczema compared to children whose mothers avoided fish altogether. read more