News tagged with birth
When someone is raised female and the genes say XY
Sep 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's the birth defect people don't talk about. A baby is born not completely male or female. The old term was hermaphrodite, then intersex. Now it's called "disorders of sexual development." Sometimes the person ...
Why the thumb of the right hand is on the left hand side
May 22, 2009 |
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It is the concentration of a few signaling molecules that determines the fate of individual cells during the early development of organisms. In the renowned journal Current Biology, a team of molecular biologists led by Pia ...
'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...
Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals (Video)
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 04, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Birth size is a marker of susceptibility to breast cancer later in life
Sep 30, 2008 |
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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 ...
Baby boomlet: US births in 2007 break 1950s record
Mar 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation's history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday.
Consuming small amounts of caffeine when pregnant may affect the growth of an unborn child
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Consuming caffeine at any time during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of fetal growth restriction (low birth weight), according to research published on bmj.com today.
Scatological clues lead to an intimate view
Mar 04, 2009 |
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The guys were all stressed out. There were new infants in the community, and the guys knew from experience that that's when invaders were likely to come and kill the babies, particularly the male infants. ...
Environmental pollutant has sex-skewing effect
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Women exposed to high levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls – a group of banned environmental pollutants) are less likely to give birth to male children. A study published today in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
New study finds home birth safe
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(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.
Teenage birth rates higher in more religious states
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Rates of births to teenage mothers are strongly predicted by conservative religious beliefs, even after controlling for differences in income and rates of abortion. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Fall babies: Born to wheeze?
Nov 21, 2008 |
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It is said that timing is everything, and that certainly appears to be true for autumn infants. Children who are born four months before the height of cold and flu season have a greater risk of developing childhood asthma ...
New research finds breastfeeding stops neglect
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a mother breastfeeds she is essentially protecting her child from herself, according to UQ researcher and developmental paediatrician, Dr Lane Strathearn.
Girl's birth defect exacts financial toll
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Since their Katelyn was born five years ago, Cheryl and Christopher Woodley have known the stress of rearing a child with special medical needs.
Time of conception linked to birth defects in United States
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A study published in the April 2009 issue of the medical journal Acta Pædiatrica is the first to report that birth defect rates in the United States were highest for women conceiving in the spring and summer. The researchers also f ...
