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Chemical Found in Cosmetics, Soaps and Lubricants is Hazardous for Men |
 ...rone. Recently, while performing their studies on humans, scientists have found that the hazardous chemicals are linked to poor quality of semen in men. This also refers to reproductive organs in boy babies.
A group of scientists, working together with Stahlhut, launched a hypothesis that phthalates could be the cause of obesity because low testosterone seems to increase belly fat and pre-diabetes in men. The group made... |
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New Saliva Test to Save 1,000 Unborn Babies Each Year |
| ...Scientists from UK are currently working on a simple saliva test that could easily and more effectively spot a deadly pregnancy complication, that kills hundreds of unborn babies each year. The complication is called pre-eclampsia and the new test will be able to detect it as early as possible. Thus scientists might reduce the risks to both mothers and their babies.
It is worth mentioning that there is no cure for the... |
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Chinese Products - to Buy or not to Buy? |
 ...bstandard goods, from replica watches and luxury handbags to liquor and drugs, are annually produced in China. Back in 2004 the world was terified to find out that in the eastern province of Anhui 13 babies had died after being fed fake baby milk.
Nancy Nord, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission chairwoman, said they would keep under control products exported by foreign manufacturers and make exporters realize ... |
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In Vitro Babies to Have Their Father's Name in Birth Certificates |
 ...Ministers ask for changes in existing fertility bill to give all IVF babies the possibility to have information on their biological parent written in their birth certificate.
The previous UK fertility law that was published in May would be almost completely rewritten as substantial changes are expected in such issues as development of "savior siblings", the use of surplus babies for research purposes and having in vitr... |
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Male birth decline - an environmental fault? |
| ...Researchers are concerned about major male birth decline and blame air pollution for this. The drop in number of male babies born in comparison to female babies was largely observed in United States and Japan.
Devra Davis, a scientist from University of Pittsburg suggests in the publication of June issue of Environmental Health Perspectives that there is a strong tendency for less boys to be born lately. She says th... |
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Forced Adoption Doesn't Give Parents Any Chance |
 ...nd Facts programme, there were more than 100 cases when children were forcibly adopted by mistake without having enough evidence that their own families were causing harm to them.
As much as 1,300 babies are adopted every year and in around a half of these cases this was made under government regulation. Social workers dealing with adoption said they had to follow government's objectives regarding adoption that were ... |
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Doctors Prescribe Antidepressants for Babies |
 ...rugs prescriptions are annually given for children under 10. Medical authorities are seriously concerned by the figures showing that antidepressants are prescribed even for kids less than a year old. Babies are not subjected to depression and doctors could not name any reason for giving them antidepressant drugs.
It's not a secret that antidepressants are powerful psychiatric drugs that often have severe side-effects. ... |
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One Million of 100-Year-Olds by 2050, Half of Them to Face Dementia |
 ...ge University, is warning that gradual increase in lifespan implies that more and more elderly people have to spend the last decades of their life in the struggle against disability and dementia.
Babies born nowadays in the UK are expected to live to the age of 100, while it is predicted that the number of centenarians will increase from the present-day total of 10,000 to 1million by the year 2074. However, the increa... |
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Mothers-to-be Smoking Results in 90 % of Cot Deaths |
 ... to them, the evidence suggests that smoking is one of the most frequent causes of SIDS and if parents broke off the bad habit, it would prevent more than 60 per cent of cot deaths.
In Britain 300 babies at the age of one - four months die of cot death every year. The report suggests the Government should emphasize the adverse effects smoking causes to babies and pregnant women. Parents should be well aware of the fact... |
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Blondes Make Men Act More Silly, Study Says |
 ...ly people. Experts say that blondes became a subject of numerous stereotypes and jokes over the past century. From the psychological point of view, many people associate blonde hair with childhood as babies are often blond at birth, thus people looking at fair-haired women may take them not too seriously.
The study, was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
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Chinese Party Expelled For Breaching One-Child Policy |
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According to this policy a family is allowed to have no more than one child. Some exceptions were made to families were the first child was a girl, increasing traditional preferences for male babies. Male birth selection practiced in several countries led to numerous cases of forced abortions and imbalance of sex ratio at birth.
The one-child policy was meant to slow down the rapid population growth, but some... |
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Unborn Twins Save Mother's Life |
 ...ncer treatment. She needed immediate chemotherapy and hysterectomy to fight with tumor.
However, Mrs. Stepney did not agree to termination of the pregnancy as she felt that she was grateful to her babies who helped her discover the cancer by their kicks until it was too late. ''I knew I could have an operation straight away and it would cure me of the cancer, but that would mean getting rid of my babies and I couldn't ... |
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Woman Accused of Cutting Unborn Baby from Mother's Womb |
 ...bors noticed a strange smell that came out of the woman's apartment, located in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. It is worth mentioning that the woman already had the history of attempting to steal newborn babies.
After breaking into her apartment, the police found the body of Kia Johnson, who was tied up with a duct tape. There was evidence that she had been drugged. Kia Johnson was discovered with her uterus sliced open. Acc... |
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Japan Bans in Vitro Fertilization for HIV Couples |
 ...tion he stated that together with his colleagues he was successful in performing in vitro fertilization in couples where only husbands had HIV.
According to the newspaper, the procedure allowed 65 babies to be born completely healthy and their mothers were HIV-free as well.
Source: UPI.com
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Baby's Smile Lights Up Mother's Brain |
 ...ight up her brain as well. Scientists working at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas observed brain scans of women who became mothers for the first time as they looked at different photographs of babies. The pictures included women's babies and the babies of others, illustrated smiling or crying.
Researchers found that when mothers were shown the photographs of their babies smiling, their brain had a different react... |
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