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Down Syndrome

Down Syndrome becoming more prevalent in the U.S.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study, aimed at estimating the prevalence of Down Syndrome in newborns, children and teenagers in 10 areas of the U.S., has found an increase in prevalence of more than 30 percent over ...


Genetic sex determination let ancient species adapt to ocean life

Genetic sex determination let ancient species adapt to ocean life

Biology / Evolution

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new analysis of extinct sea creatures suggests that the transition from egg-laying to live-born young opened up evolutionary pathways that allowed these ancient species to adapt to and thrive ...


'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(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 ...


Baby boomlet: US births in 2007 break 1950s record (AP)

Baby boomlet: US births in 2007 break 1950s record

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 33

(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.


Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals

Early whales gave birth on land, fossil find reveals (Video)

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(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 ...


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Birth order affects cooperation in later life

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new scientific study has found that at least some of the stereotypes associated with older siblings are true: the oldest sibling is often less trusting, less cooperative, and less reciprocating ...


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.


When someone is raised female and the genes say XY

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 38

(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 ...


World's first baby born from new egg-screening technique

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Meet Oliver, the first baby in the world born using a new egg-screening technique that could double the odds of an implanted embryo taking hold in the womb, unveiled by British experts Wednesday.


Falling birth rates shift rotavirus epidemics

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Fewer births in states such as California may be delaying the annual onset of a common intestinal virus in the southwest, according to epidemiologists. The timing of infectious outbreaks in other locations such as the northeast ...


Scientists identify gene vital to early embryonic cells forming a normal heart and skull

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center highlights the critical role a certain gene and its protein play during early embryonic development on formation of a normal heart and skull.


Low birth weight linked to psychosis-like symptoms

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Low birth weight babies are at greater risk of developing psychosis-like symptoms as they grow up, research suggests. The study, published in the June issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, shows a link ...


Poor attention in kindergarten predicts lower high school test scores

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As thousands of students nationwide prepare to leave high school, a UC Davis study appearing online today in the June issue of the medical journal Pediatrics shows a clear link between attention problems early in school — as ...


Why the thumb of the right hand is on the left hand side

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

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 ...


Study: Lower legal drinking age increases poor birth outcomes

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Amid renewed calls to consider reducing the legal drinking age, a new University of Georgia study finds that lower drinking ages increase unplanned pregnancies and pre-term births among young people.