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(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists studying a 7,000-year-old site in what is now south-west Germany have found evidence suggesting that more than 500 people may have been the victims of cannibalism. http://www.physorg.com/news179393799.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:30:02 EST news179393799 For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that stem cells found in amniotic fluid meet an important test of potential to become specialized cell types, which suggests they may be useful for treating a wider array of diseases and conditions than scientists originally thought. http://www.physorg.com/news178177924.html Medicine & Health Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:53:38 EST news178177924 More than six percent of expectant mothers in Quebec consume prescription drugs that are known to be harmful to their fetuses, according to a Université de Montréal investigation published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Half these women will voluntarily terminate their pregnancy fearing congenital malformations, which means the abortion rate among these women is 11 percent higher than in the rest of the population. http://www.physorg.com/news177692561.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:30:02 EST news177692561 (PhysOrg.com) -- Dreams have long been assumed to have psychological functions such as consolidating emotional memories and processing experiences or problems, but according to a Harvard psychiatrist and sleep researcher the real function may actually be physiological. http://www.physorg.com/news177232375.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:50:02 EST news177232375 A new study published in the journal Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology reveals that anxiety in pregnant women impacts their babies' size and gestational age. Specifically, women with more severe and chronic anxiety during pregnancy are more likely to have affected babies. http://www.physorg.com/news175874143.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:56:24 EST news175874143 (AP) -- When Kathy Perusse had weight-loss surgery and shed 120 pounds, she may have done more than make her own life easier. http://www.physorg.com/news175501664.html Medicine & Health Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:50:01 EST news175501664 Surgery performed in fetuses predicted to be born with a syndrome causing severely underdeveloped hearts helped some avoid developing the full-blown disorder and improved heart growth and function, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news173455732.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:30:02 EST news173455732 (PhysOrg.com) -- A woman in Fort Worth, Arkansas is carrying two babies that may not be twins, and which may have been conceived two and a half weeks apart. The two babies may be the result of superfetation, a rare phenomenon in which the woman ovulates and conceives again while already pregnant. http://www.physorg.com/news173346206.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:20:02 EST news173346206 University of Central Florida Microbiology Professor Keith Ireton has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that plays an important role in the spread of a deadly food-borne bacterium. http://www.physorg.com/news172768529.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:30:02 EST news172768529 UK scientists have shown that a common biological protein molecule called SHP-2 is crucial for encouraging placenta growth. The research is published today in Endocrinology. http://www.physorg.com/news172730790.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:46:56 EST news172730790 With new prenatal tests for Down syndrome on the horizon promising to be safer, more accurate, and available to women earlier in pregnancy, the medical community must come together and engage in dialogue about the impact of existing and expected tests, argues a new leading article published Online First by Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news172146115.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:40:01 EST news172146115 (AP) -- Prized San Diego Zoo panda Bai Yun gave birth Wednesday to her fifth cub after a 130-day pregnancy that zookeepers said ended with an apparently pleasant labor. http://www.physorg.com/news168716320.html Biology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:00:04 EST news168716320 Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that assisted reproductive techniques alter the expression of genes that are important for metabolism and the transport of nutrients in the placenta of mice. The results underscore the need for greater understanding of the long-term effects of new assisted reproductive techniques in humans. http://www.physorg.com/news167922238.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:40:01 EST news167922238 Memory probably begins during the prenatal period, but little is known about the exact timing or for how long memory lasts. Now in a new study from the Netherlands, scientists have found fetal short-term memory in fetuses at 30 weeks. http://www.physorg.com/news166878043.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:01:17 EST news166878043 The future of organ transplantation could include microscopic beads that create "designer" immune cells to help patients tolerate their new organ, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. http://www.physorg.com/news166096408.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:54:02 EST news166096408 A heart muscle protein can replace its missing skeletal muscle counterpart to give mice with myopathy a long and active life, show Nowak et al. The findings will be published online on Monday, May 25, 2009 and will appear in the June 1, 2009 print issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news162465042.html Biology Mon, 25 May 2009 10:17:20 EST news162465042 New studies in pregnant mice using antibodies against fetal brains made by the mothers of autistic children show that immune cells can cross the placenta and trigger neurobehavioral changes similar to autism in the mouse pups. http://www.physorg.com/news159207023.html Medicine & Health Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:10:49 EST news159207023 After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting state of non-REM sleep. But whether the brains of younger, immature fetuses cycle with sleep or are simply inactive has remained a mystery, until now. http://www.physorg.com/news158861665.html Medicine & Health Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:14:54 EST news158861665 I recently searched several doctor rating Web sites to see whether other people like my OB-GYN as much as I do. http://www.physorg.com/news156164083.html Medicine & Health Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:55:31 EST news156164083 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two newly described fossil whales---a pregnant female and a male of the same species--reveal how primitive whales gave birth and provide new insights into how whales made the transition from land to sea. http://www.physorg.com/news152952023.html Other Sciences Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:42:16 EST news152952023 Animal research has shown that binge drinking - even just once - during early pregnancy can cause numerous problems for the fetus, including early postnatal death. Fetal zinc deficiency may explain some of the birth defects and neurodevelopmental abnormalities associated with alcohol exposure. New rodent findings are the first to show that dietary zinc supplements throughout pregnancy can reduce some alcohol-related birth defects. http://www.physorg.com/news152819382.html Medicine & Health Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:49:52 EST news152819382 Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) commonly called secondhand smoke, can harm a developing fetus and may account for complications during pregnancy and birth. It is now known that non-whites experience more adverse pregnancy effects than do whites from smoking and ETS exposure. In an article published in the March 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers examined whether black, non-smoking women were able to avoid ETS exposure early in pregnancy and the social contextual factors that affected their success in avoiding secondhand smoke. http://www.physorg.com/news152294408.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:00:41 EST news152294408 Morning sickness. It's the bane of many of a pregnancy. And many a future mother wonders at the apparently unnecessary suffering. But, it turns out, there's meaning to the misery. Two evolutionary biologists report that morning sickness protects both the pregnant woman and the developing embryo just when the fetus is most vulnerable. http://www.physorg.com/news134143992.html Biology Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:13:12 EST news134143992 Morning sickness. It's the bane of many of a pregnancy. And many a future mother wonders at the apparently unnecessary suffering. http://www.physorg.com/news133706906.html Technology Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:48:26 EST news133706906