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Gradian Health, a non-profit social enterprise based in New York City, has taken steps to address the challenge of delivering anesthesia in low-resource settings by developing the Universal Anaesthesia Machine (UAM). The UAM, which they sell at their manufacturing cost to government and non-profit hospitals, was originally developed by Dr. Paul Fenton, a British anesthesiologist who worked in Malawi for 15 years, experiencing firsthand the challenges of delivering anesthesia in the context of a poorly-resourced hospital. After years of frustration and tragic outcomes, he developed the UAM, a reliable and rugged solution to safely deliver anaesthesia in any setting.

Our piece about domestic violence during the holidays and pregnancy generated a lot of interest and we’ll be revisiting the topic from time to time. It cuts across all spectrums of society and affects more women than even we realized.

George Goens' blog post about one heartbreaking/heartwarming moment shared with his granddaughter the year after his daughter and her mother died suddenly during childbirth is a poignant reminder that for many people the holidays are laced with grief. During this week, as we're all focused on our children and the country's children, while we're all dealing with our own grief over the national tragedies we've endured and while we're in the last days of holiday frenzy, this piece answers the question: Is your Heart In Heaven?

As some of us here at EMC are mothers of young children we are still struggling with the events of last Friday, we talked to our friend and expert psychologist Dr. Jessica Zucker, who specializes in women’s reproductive and maternal mental health, to get her perspective.