Year: 2014

“The Pregnant Athlete” shows some intense moves for expectant moms.

More American mothers are staying at home with their children, a trend driven in part by rising immigration and women unable to find jobs, a Pew analysis released on Tuesday showed. The category of stay-at-home mothers with children under 18 includes women who are at home to care for their families and mothers who cannot find work, are disabled or in school, the Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data said. About two-thirds of stay-at-home mothers are married with working husbands, down from 85 percent in 1970 as U.S. marriage rates have fallen and the number of single mothers has risen, the analysis said. The figure has fallen from 41 percent in 1970 as more mothers went to work and the number of single mothers went up, the analysis said Six percent of stay-at-home mothers said they were home with their children because they could not find a job, up from 1 percent in 2000.

LONDON (AP) — Three years ago, doctors reported that zapping a paralyzed man's spinal cord with electricity allowed him to stand and move his legs. Now they've done the same with three other patients, suggesting their original success was no fluke.

Marion cuddles her sister with cerebral palsy after spending 57 says apart.

(Reuters) – Five-times Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe is in a Sydney hospital fighting a “serious” infection and may not swim again, his manager told Australian media late on Tuesday. “It’s serious but it’s not life-threatening,” Thorpe’s agent James Erskine told Australian Associated Press. “From a competitive point of view – he will not be swimming competitively again I don’t think.” (Reporting by Ian Ransom; editing by Justin Palmer; Editing by …)