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Off Our Backs was founded in January 1970 [5] by Marlene Wicks and Marilyn Salzman Webb in Washington, D.C. [4] [3] The original funding for the periodical came from $1000 that was collected to start an anti-Vietnam War coffee house, with the idea for the paper stemming from frustration about the lack of news about the women’s liberation movement in mainstream media.
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Obesity is a medical condition, considered by multiple organizations to be a disease, [8] [9] [10] in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.
In the late 1990s, the Healthy Back Store acquired three Natural Back Stores in California, bringing the chain to 8 locations. [11] Healthy Back bought out the Maryland-based JoAnne's Bed and Back chain of stores for $600,000 in 2008 following the latter's filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier that year. [12]
Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, the world's oldest living person, who was born in the U.S. and lived through two world wars, the Spanish Civil War and the COVID pandemic, has died at 117, her family ...
Aortocaval compression syndrome, also known as supine hypotensive syndrome, is compression of the abdominal aorta and inferior vena cava by the gravid uterus when a pregnant woman lies on her back, i.e. in the supine position.
In medicine, the mean arterial pressure (MAP) is an average calculated blood pressure in an individual during a single cardiac cycle. [1] Although methods of estimating MAP vary, a common calculation is to take one-third of the pulse pressure (the difference between the systolic and diastolic pressures), and add that amount to the diastolic pressure.