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Study finds mercury prevalent in many western fish

...s considered safe, though infants, young children, pregnant women and persons who eat a lot of fish have higher risk levels than the general population. Less clear is the impact of that mercury on fish-eating birds and mammals, said Robert Hughes, also an author on the paper and an OSU fisheries and wildli...

Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage

...is (MS) tends to go into remission while women are pregnant may be the secret to overcoming the devastating ne...on of new myelin in the brains and spinal cords of pregnant mice. Further, when non-pregnant mice with MS-like lesions were injected with prolactin, their myeli...

Experimental vaccine given during pregnancy reduces stillbirths from common virus

...t 40,000, and there is no vaccine or treatment for pregnant women who have the infection. In a 2000 report, t... guinea pigs given the CMV vaccine before becoming pregnant gave birth to fewer dead pups and were less likely to transmit the infection to their offspring than...

Cancer that colonizes our bodies

...fect invasion by a founder species. Like the first pregnant finch that landed on a deserted island in the Galapagos Archipelago, the first cancer cell in the human body has to undergo many mutations through many generations to establish itself as an invader of different organs in the body. But once it is ther...

New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies

...fect invasion by a founder species. Like the first pregnant finch that landed on a deserted island in the Galapagos Archipelago, the first cancer cell in the human body has to undergo many mutations through many generations to establish itself as an invader of different organs in the body. But once it is ther...

Researchers discover surprising drug that blocks malaria

...like propranolol is cheap and safe for use even in pregnant women, a group particularly vulnerable to malaria. "We're working on developing a unique drug that would combine anti-malarial drugs with blood pressure medication. We think it has a high likelihood of success," Haldar said. The next step is human...

The penalty of having a sister -- why sibling sex matters for male saiga antelopes

...mature. This study shows that when a female is pregnant with mixed-sex twins, the male foetus does not undergo the substantial amount of growth that occurs in a male foetus with a brother, resulting in a sub-optimal birth weight. Saiga males mate with many females and face strong male-male competition dur...

Pitt study notes decline in male births in the US and Japan

...factors, physical health and chemical exposures of pregnant women affect their ability to have children and the health of their offspring. We suspect that some combination of these factors, along with older age of parents, may account for decreasing male births.? Dr. Davis explained that environmental fac...

Scientists genetically engineer tomatoes with enhanced folate content

... recommending a healthy dose of salsa for would-be pregnant women anytime soon? Probably not, the researchers say. "It can take years to get a genetically-engineered food plant approved by the FDA," Hanson said. "But before that is even a question, there are many more studies to be done--including a better...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

...s of our tissues. This is especially worrying for pregnant women. During the gestation period, all the contam... –normally used as pesticides- in the organisms of pregnant women. The analysis was developed at San Cecilio University Hospital, in Granada, with 308 women who...

Toxoplasmosis infection trick revealed by scientists

... with cat faeces. It is particularly dangerous for pregnant women, whose foetuses can be infected via the placenta, and those with a weakened immune system, such as people infected with HIV. In severe cases, toxoplasmosis can cause damage to the brain and eyes, and even death Now researchers from London and...

HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants

...onto researchers have uncovered the basis by which pregnant women protect themselves against malaria and have .... The research could lead to improved vaccines for pregnant women in malaria-ravished regions. Malaria is a parasitic disease spread by mosquitoes that kills m...

Pregnant mom's exposure to flu vaccine kick-starts fetal immune system

... with Fluzone during pregnancy. The vaccination of pregnant women against influenza is considered safe and is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors detected anti-Fluzone antibodies in approximately 40% of cord blood specimens examined. These results and further data report...

Prenatal Stress Keeps Infants, Toddlers up at Night, Study Says

...l Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), assessed pregnant women living in Avon, England, who were due to giv...o mothers classified as anxious or depressed while pregnant dozed just as long as their unstressed-pregnancy counterparts about 12 hours. However, this slee...

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