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Rural Women Are At Higher Risk Of Blood Pressure Disorders During Pregnancy (Science Daily)
Several factors, such as older age and high weight gain, are known risk factors for pre-eclampsia and other pregnancy-related blood pressure disorders. Now a new report suggests that social factors -- including living in a rural county -- may also increase the risk of pre-eclampsia and pregnancy-induced hypertension, according to new research.
Rock-Tenn gets OK from St. Paul to explore rural biogas power plant (Pioneer Press)
The St. Paul City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to accept community recommendations to allow the Rock-Tenn paper plant to explore building a rural biogas facility to power its operation.
America's Best Leaders: Regina Benjamin, Small-Town Primary Care Physician (US News & World Report)
She believes that living in a tiny rural town shouldn't mean giving up big-city healthcare.
Wilson County water meeting draws few (The Wilson Times)
Rural residents living near the county's expanding waterlines in the Southeast and Southwest water districts were given a final chance Wednesday night to hook onto the system without paying an increased tap-on fee. County Manager Ellis Williford and commissioners Sid Boyette, Tim Williford, Frank Emory, Grady Robbins and Roger Lucas held a meeting ...
Santa Train to feature Kathy Mattea (Lexington Herald-Leader)
LOUISVILLE . Country music singer Kathy Mattea will help deliver gifts when the Santa Train makes its 66th annual run Saturday through a stretch of Appalachia. The train delivers more than 15 tons of Christmas gifts to children living along a 110-mile stretch in the rural mountain communities of Eastern Kentucky, western Virginia and northeast Tennessee. It is sponsored by the Chamber of ...
DAILY EXPRESS NEWS (Sabah Daily Express)
Kota Kinabalu : The Federal Government has channelled RM1.6 million to Sabah this year to carry out three "Bumi Hijau" programmes to encourage people living in the urban and rural areas to plant their own food.
Time Inc. shuts door on Cottage Living (Media Life Magazine)
As part of major restructuring at Time Inc., Cottage Living is ceasing publication with the current November-December issue.
Ex-city dwellers take college course in rural living (Chicago Tribune)
NEVADA, Mo. (AP) _ Flooded country roads. Roving packs of dogs with no owners in sight. Overgrown weeds as far as the eye can see.
Problems of rural battered women (Crookston Daily Times)
Polk County Victims Assistance provided this information from the Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women's "Hands Are Not For Hitting" campaign:
National Hunger and Homeless Awareness Week (News Democrat & Leader)
In Russellville/Logan County 21.3 percent female head of house holds live below poverty level, 6.6 percent families earn less than $10,000. Many of the rural homeless live in old barns and housing that are not suitable for living.
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