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Birth size is a marker of susceptibility to breast cancer later in life

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Birth size, and in particular birth length, correlates with subsequent risk of breast cancer in adulthood, according to a new study published in PLoS Medicine by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medici ...





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No link between antidepressants and birth defects

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Expectant mothers can safely use prescribed antidepressants during their first trimester, according to a new study from the Université de Montréal and Ste. Justine Hospital published in the May edition of the British Journal of ...


Birth records hold pancreatic cancer clue

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 16, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Pregnancies in Jerusalem in the 1960s and 1970s may hold vital clues about how pancreatic cancer and diabetes are linked. According to research published in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, women with a history ...


New study finds home birth safe

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by McMaster University researchers has found low-risk women who have midwives in attendance during birth have positive outcomes regardless of where the delivery takes place.


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Ancestry hunters' bonanza as London records go online

Technology / Internet

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Some 77 million documents dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries and including the ancestors of David Beckham and Britney Spears are to go online, under a service launched Thursday.


Autism may be linked to being firstborn, breech births or moms 35 or older

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Children who are firstborn or breech or whose mothers are 35 or older when giving birth are at significantly greater risk for developing an autism spectrum disorder, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have ...


Spontaneous and medically induced preterm births contribute equally to the rising rate of preterm births

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that the rising rate of preterm birth in Scotland is as much a result of an increase in spontaneous preterm birth as it is of preterm birth that i ...


Studies find few risks to newborn offspring of parents who are childhood cancer survivors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whether they can have children is one of the major concerns for adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer because fertility can be compromised by cancer treatment. For cancer survivors who can have children, two ...


Low birth weight linked to long-term respiratory problems

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infants who weigh less than five and a half pounds at birth often enter the world with a host of medical complications, including respiratory problems. New research shows that these respiratory problems may persist well beyond ...


Impaired foetal growth increases risk of asthma

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) shows that children born with low birth weight are at a higher risk of developing asthma later in life. The study, which is published in the journal Pediatrics, is bas ...


Nation's only citywide electronic health information exchange: Improving health and lowering costs

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Across the nation concerns about health-care quality and costs are growing. For the first time, both candidates aspiring to the nation's highest office are looking to greater reliance on electronic medical records as critical ...



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