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| Study Says Aging Reduces Centromere Cohesion, Disrupts Reproduction | Fri, 10 Sep 2010 |
| University of Pennsylvania biologists studying human reproduction have identified what is likely the major contributing factor to the maternal age-associated increase in aneuploidy, the term for an abnormal number of chromosomes during reproductive cell division... | |
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| Research Ties High Weight Gain During Pregnancy To Overweight Children | Thu, 09 Sep 2010 |
| Infants born to women who gain too much weight during pregnancy are more likely to become overweight children and adults, according to a growing body of evidence challenging earlier arguments that weight is mainly influenced by genetics, New York Times columnist Jane Brody writes... | |
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| The Risk Of Childhood Cancer Following Fetal Exposure To Radiation | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Fetal exposure to radiation and the risk of childhood cancer: what is the likelihood of a risk? A new study published in this week's PLoS Medicine aims to evaluate the possibility that exposure of a fetus to computed tomography or radionuclide imaging performed during pregnancy might increase subsequent risk of childhood cancer... | |
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| Ahead Of U.N. MDG Summit, Media Outlets Examine Various Aspects Of Goals | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Ahead of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit on September 20-22, the media examines different aspects of the MDGs. The Daily Nation reports on a United Nations Development Program report which showed poverty eradication remained one of Kenya's greatest challenges to meeting the MDGs. "'Poverty is still at 2006 levels... | |
| AHRQ Releases New Spanish Language Guides For Patients | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a series of free evidence-based guides designed to help Spanish speakers understand and compare the risks, benefits and side effects of treatments for eight health conditions. The guides provide valuable information that patients can use in talking with their clinicians... | |
| Alternative Birthing Rooms Safe For Mom, Baby | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Giving birth in an alternative setting within a hospital - like a bed-free birthing room or one designed to be "homelike" is just as safe for healthy women as laboring in a traditional hospital bed and women who use these rooms are nearly twice as likely to be satisfied with their birth experiences, according to an updated Cochrane review... | |
| Babies Born Past Term Associated With Increased Risk Of Cerebral Palsy | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| While preterm birth is a known risk factor for cerebral palsy, an examination of data for infants born at term or later finds that compared with delivery at 40 weeks, birth at 37 or 38 weeks or at 42 weeks or later was associated with an increased risk of cerebral palsy, according to a study in the September 1 issue of JAMA... | |
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| Morning Sickness, Still No Relief | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| There are currently no reliably safe and effective treatments for morning sickness, according to Cochrane researchers who conducted a systematic review of the available evidence. There was very limited evidence for all pharmaceutical and alternative medicines tested. Morning sickness is the term used to describe vomiting and feelings of nausea in pregnant women... | |
| Low Pre-Natal Vitamin D Doubles Schizophrenia Risk | Tue, 07 Sep 2010 |
| Newborn babies with low levels of vitamin D have an increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life, researchers at the Queensland Brain Institute have found. The research team used tiny samples of blood taken as part of routine screening from newborn babies in Denmark... | |
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| VOA News Examines U.S. Global Health Initiative | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| VOA News examines President Barack Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), noting the initiative's emphasis on cost-effective strategies to improve child- and maternal-health as well as programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria... | |
| Pediatric Weight Expert Provides Obesity Trinity Answers | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| In a first person paper published in the August 27, 2010 issue of Childhood Obesity, Dr. Melinda Sothern, Director of Health Promotion and Professor of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, provides three ways to de-program the 1950s obesity trinity underlying the current obesity epidemic in the United States and protect future generations from its health consequences... | |
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| Peeling Back DNA Packaging To Gain Insight Into Cells | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 |
| Scientists have built a clearer picture of how lengthy strands of DNA are concertinaed when our cells grow and divide, in a discovery could help explain how cell renewal can go wrong. Scientists have identified thousands of proteins that play a key role in compacting DNA - a crucial process by which DNA is shortened up to 10,000 times to fit inside cells as they split into two... | |
| U.N.-NGO Meeting Concludes With Participants Calling On World Leaders To Do More For MDGs | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 |
| A group of more than 350 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concluded a U.N. forum in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday with a call for world leaders to step up their commitments to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Rose, 9/1). "In a wide-ranging declaration adopted at the end of the three-day meeting ... | |
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| Study Links Fluoride To Pre-term Birth And Anemia In Pregnancy | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 |
| Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies' birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, AK Susheela and colleagues, in a study published in Current Science (May 2010)... | |
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