News tagged with helpless infants

Scatological clues lead to an intimate view

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. ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0




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Babies are born with 'intuitive physics' knowledge, researcher says

While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come equipped with knowledge of "intuitive physics."

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

India health costs a crisis impoverishing millions

(AP) -- When Nasir Khan cried out at night from the searing pain of kidney stones, the entire slum could hear him.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop device to measure brain temperature non-invasively

Doctors have long sought a way to directly measure the brain's temperature without inserting a probe through the skull. Now researchers have developed a way to get the brain's precise temperature with a device the diameter ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neonatal intensive care unit offers tips for parents

Imagine babies so tiny a wedding ring can fit around their arms. Often weighing less than a pound, these remarkably small and sick infants hold onto life hooked up to a maze of tubes and beeping monitors. Although no parent ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Babies and toddlers can suffer mental illness, seldom get treatment

Infants and toddlers can suffer serious mental health disorders, yet they are unlikely to receive treatment that could prevent lasting developmental problems, according to research published by the American Psychological ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Kids' ER visits fell after cold medicines' removal

Removing cough and cold medicines for very young children from store shelves led to a big decline in emergency room visits for bad reactions to the drugs, government research found.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers offer alternate theory for found skull's asymmetry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new turn in the debate over explanations for the odd features of LB1 -- the specimen number of the only skull found in Liang Bua Cave on the Indonesian island of Flores and sometimes called "the hobbit" ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 06, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Anthropologist's studies of childbirth bring new focus on women in evolution

Contrary to the TV sitcom where the wife experiencing strong labor pains screams at her husband to stay away from her, women rarely give birth alone. There are typically doctors, nurses and husbands in hospital ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Women know bonnie babies best

(PhysOrg.com) -- St Andrews researchers may finally have found the reason why women are more likely to coo over babies than men.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Probing Question: Why are babies cute?

Babies hold an almost universal appeal, even for the grouchiest of people. There's just something about their big shining eyes and button noses that draws people in and stirs their most tender feelings. In sho ...

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created Nov 23, 2005 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (29) | comments 0


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