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• Insects Get A Reprieve!

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  Geez, that will explain why I pissing down my leg ! Oh dear god, pregnant women, step away from the insect repellent now! European researchers have discovered a link between bug spray and penis birth defects in babies. The defect in question is  hypospadias, which basically means the opening of the penis ends up on ...
  9 hours ago

• New discovery may help reverse cleft palate before birth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): Cleft palate is one of the most common congenital birth defects in humans, and current surgical treatments are often complex. Now, researchers from USC School of Dentistry have suggested a novel way that may allow doctors to reverse a cleft palate before the baby is even born.According to Yang ...
  13 hours ago

• Sculpting Your Nose with Rhinoplasty

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 463
  Rhinoplasty is surgery on the nose. The procedure can be done for medical reasons, breathing problems, birth defects, or injury, or it may simply be done for aesthetic cosmetic purposes.Rhinoplasty ProceduresThere are two types of rhinoplasty procedures. The first type is known as an open procedure. With an open ...
  21 hours ago

• Exposure to insect repellent linked to penis defects

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Melbourne, Dec 1 (ANI): Mums-to-be who are exposed to insect repellent in the earliest phase of pregnancy are likely to give birth to boys with hypospadias in penises, say researchers.This is where the opening of the penis is in the wrong place - usually back from the tip and on the underside - and it [...]
  1 day ago

• Iraq is Such a Disappointment to Us

  
  Anonymous Arabist ??? ????? — Authority: 125
  Not to spend too much time on this NYTimes article about how the Iraqis are letting us down by being too dead, disabled, or abroad to run the cool factories and hospitals we built for them just ’cause we’re nice like that. Most of the people who read this blog probably already read that article and commented on ...
  3 days ago

• What Diet Has America Chosen?

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 130
  It’s obvious from looking around any grocery store (or watching any TV broadcast) in America that the nation has chosen to pursue a disastrously bad diet. The vast majority of “food” products sold at grocery stores are manufactured, processed foods made with chemical additives, cooked at high heats that produce ...
  5 days ago

• The Dangers of Antibiotics

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 547
  By Vicki Santillano, DivineCarolineIn the 1930s, a discovery was made that changed the medical world and our entire lives as a result. Sulfa drugs were unleashed as successful combatants against harmful bacteria, and the following decade, penicillin was developed to do the same. With these power antibiotics at their ...
  5 days ago

• Call It Ecocide

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children. This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in two military assaults in 2004, have begun documenting a startling rise ...
  6 days ago

• The New Procedures in Facelift

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 463
  If reconstructive surgery is performed to fix bad functions caused by developmental abnormalities, by birth defects, trauma or injury, tumors, infection or disease, cosmetic surgery is only performed to improve the patient’s appearance and self-esteem by to reshaping normal structures of the body. To be more clear, ...
  1 week ago

• Higher rate of birth defects found with assisted reproduction

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 432
  From Reuters/ABC News:A new study has found a higher rate of birth defects among babies conceived by assisted reproduction compared to babies conceived naturally.In the study, almost 3 percent of infants conceived with assisted reproduction were diagnosed with a major birth defect, compared to less than 2 percent of ...
  1 week ago

• Hi This is Dr Jones, Ive Got Some Really Bad News

  
  LiveFromTheWangOfAmerica — Authority: 124
  This, in my opinion is not the way to start any conversation with a pregnant woman that doesnt end with "And your baby is dead." I went last Friday for my next round of sequential screening - and they RAVED about the baby on ultrasound. She looks great, everything looks great, and I quote "WE HAVE NO CONCERNS". ...
  1 week ago

• Common Plastic Chemical Linked To ADHD

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 507
  David Goodhue - AHN Reporter Miami, FL (AHN) - A common chemical found in many plastic products has been linked to attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, according to new research from South Korea. Measuring urine samples, the researchers found what they call a significant association between the amount ...
  1 week ago

• Causative gene of a rare disorder discovered by sequencing only protein-coding regions of genome

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  For the first time, scientists have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a mendelian disorder.
  1 week ago

• Common plastics chemicals -- phthalates -- linked to ADHD sympto...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Phthalates are important components of many consumer products, including toys, cleaning materials, plastics, and personal care items. Studies to date on phthalates have been inconsistent, with some linking exposure to these chemicals to hormone disruptions, birth defects, asthma and reproductive problems, while others ...
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• Cognitive Dysfunction Reversed in Mouse Model of Down Syndrome

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 552
  Laboratory mouse.At birth, children with Down syndrome aren’t developmentally delayed. But as they age, these kids fall behind. Memory deficits inherent in Down syndrome hinder learning, making it hard for the brain to collect experiences needed for normal cognitive development.Now, findings from the Stanford ...
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• Spike in birth defects prompts questions in Iraq

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 432
  From the [UK] Guardian:Doctors and parents are reporting a sharp rise in the number of children with congenital birth defects in Iraq’s Falluja area, which is known for some of the country’s fiercest fighting and largest munitions fallout.“It’s like we are treating patients immediately after Hiroshima,” said ...
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• Women at risk from vitamin A deficiency

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Almost half of UK women could be suffering from a lack of vitamin A due to a previously undiscovered genetic variation, scientists at Newcastle University have found. The team, led by Dr Georg Lietz, has shown that almost 50 per cent of women have a genetic variation which reduces their ability to produce sufficient ...
  2 weeks ago

• Folic Acid Fortification Might Boost Cancer Risk

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 542
  TUESDAY, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Although folic acid fortification of foods can prevent many birth defects, it may also increase the risk for developing cancer , Norwegian researchers report. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Solving the 50-year-old puzzle of thalidomide

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Research into the controversial drug thalidomide reveals that the mechanism through which the drug causes limb defects is the same process which causes it to damage internal organs and other tissues.
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• First tests for pesticide endocrine effects in US

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  More than a decade after Congress directed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to carry out assessments of endocrine disrupting chemicals, the agency has announced the first set of compounds to be screened under its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can ...
  2 weeks ago

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