News tagged with postpartum blues


Likely Cause of Postpartum Blues and Depression Identified

Likely cause of postpartum blues and depression identified

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Unique biochemical crosstalk that enables a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its mother's blood just may cause common postpartum blues, researchers say.





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Breastfeeding protects women from metabolic syndrome, a diabetes and heart disease predictor

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Breastfeeding a child may lower a woman’s risk of developing Metabolic Syndrome, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes in women, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that was published today online ahead of print ...


Glucose intolerance in pregnancy associated with postpartum cardiovascular risk

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Women who have gestational glucose intolerance (a condition less severe than gestational diabetes) exhibit multiple cardiovascular risk factors as early as three months after birth, according to a new study accepted for publication ...


Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar (AP)

Review: A riff on robotics with self-tuning guitar

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5

(AP) -- New cars have been tuning themselves for the better part of two decades now, so it should feel less impressive that Gibson has built a guitar that can smoothly do the same.


'Nature or nurture' study reveals 'musical genes' (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever wondered why a close group of friends might like completely different types of music, blame their genes. A study by Nokia and Kings' College London into the musical tastes of nearly 4,000 twins ...


Mortality rates reduced among children whose mothers received iron-folic acid supplements

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers ...


Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried ...


Maternal HIV-1 treatment protects against transmission to newborns

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

Mothers receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat HIV-1 infection are less likely than untreated mothers to transmit the virus to their newborns through breastfeeding, according to a new study. The findings, ...


Most H1N1 patients with respiratory failure treated with oxygenating system survive illness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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

Despite the severity of disease and the intensity of treatment, most patients in Australia and New Zealand who experienced respiratory failure as a result of 2009 influenza A(H1N1) and were treated with a system that adds ...


Antidepressant use during pregnancy associated with some adverse outcomes in newborns

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exposure to a certain class of antidepressant medications during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of preterm birth, a low five-minute Apgar score (a measure of overall health of the baby) and admission to ...


Childbearing increases chance of developing the metabolic syndrome

Medicine & Health / Health

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

Childbearing is associated directly with future development of the metabolic syndrome — abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease risk factors — and for women who have had ...



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