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on April 8, 2021 in World News

Lockdowns have led to ‘avoidable deaths of both mothers and babies,’ researchers say

By Celeste McGovern  Follow Celeste (LifeSiteNews) – Government messages to stay home, lockdowns, fear, and disruption of services at hospitals in response to COVID-19 have led to increased “avoidable deaths of both mothers and babies” during the pandemic, a study published this week in The Lancet Global Health found. “Global maternal and fetal outcomes have worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, with an increase in maternal deaths, stillbirth, ruptured ectopic pregnancies, and maternal depression,” according to research from several institutions, including the Fetal Medicine Unit at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical...

By Celeste McGovern  Follow Celeste (LifeSiteNews) – Government messages to stay home, lockdowns, fear, and disruption of services at hospitals in response to COVID-19 have led to increased “avoidable deaths of both mothers and babies” during the pandemic, a...

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on May 18, 2018 in World News

People who live in small towns and rural areas are happier than everyone else, researchers say

Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Heaven is wide open spaces – at least, it is for most people, according to a massive new data set of happiness in Canada. A team of happiness researchers at the Vancouver School of Economics and McGill University recently published a working paper on the geography of well-being in Canada. They compiled 400,000 responses to a pair of national Canadian surveys, allowing them to parse out distinctions in well-being at the level of more than 1,200 communities representing the country’s entire geography.  They were able to cross-reference the well-being responses with other survey data,...

Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Heaven is wide open spaces – at least, it is for most people, according to a massive new data set of happiness in Canada. A team of happiness researchers at the Vancouver School of...

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