A course of aqua-aerobics during pregnancy can ease the pain of childbirth, a new study has shown.The study found that women who did three classes a week were over twice as likely to decline an epidural.
It is thought the stress-busting effect of exercise helped.
The study has been published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Reproductive […]
Several people found hard, blue plastic in their food, after that there’s a nationwide recall of popular frozen meals made in Utah.
The meals came from Nestlé Prepared Foods Company in Springville and were prepared from Aug. 18 through Oct. 27 of this year.
The company says it has received a report of someone being injured by […]
Women who get pregnant after weight-loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women, researchers said on Tuesday.An obese woman who has weight-loss, or bariatric, surgery also may increase her chances of getting pregnant in the first place by normalizing her menstrual cycles and […]
British scientists were hailed Wednesday after the first tissue-engineered windpipe, built from the patient’s own stem cells, was successfully transplanted into a young woman with a failing airway.Scientists at Bristol University were in a European team that conducted the operation on a young woman from Colombia living in Spain, they announced Wednesday. The operation was […]
A simple, inexpensive method for detecting contaminants in heparin has been devised by Michigan University researchers.Heparin, a blood-thinning drug, although very effective against clots in veins, arteries and lungs, was under a cloud when contaminated samples caused serious allergic reactions resulting in many deaths.
The method relies on potentiometric polyanion sensors originally developed in Michigan University […]
Ants are not only industrious and dedicated, they are quite capable of keeping their gardens pest free, a feat still beyond human agriculturalists.And to cap it all, they have been doing it for more than 50 million years. Leaf-cutter ants put their freshly-cut leaves in gardens where they grow a special fungus that they eat.
New […]
Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed new nanofibers that could one day be used to heal wounds with minimal scarring and rejection by the immune system.
The strong, flexible, bio-material, is made from a common […]
Crop sprays pose a big threat to the health of people living in the countryside and must be given better protection, the High Court in Britain has ruled.The verdict, by Justice Collins is a landmark victory for Georgina Downs, who launched a one-woman campaign after crop spraying damaged her own health, reports the Telegraph.
During the […]
Couples who hug and kiss more often or become physically intimate are less likely to be stressed, especially if they are married.A week-long study of 51 double income German couples (mostly married) by Zurich University found that touchy feely pairs, who did everything from holding hands to having sex, had lower levels of stress hormone […]
Children who become very distressed by family quarrels are more likely to develop psychological problems.But little is known about what happens beyond these behavioural reactions in terms of their biological responses.
A new study by Universities of Rochester and Minnesota has found that such distressed children also have higher levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.
‘Our results […]