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| MORE WARNINGS AGAINST 'EXCESSIVE CLEANLINESS' |
| An over-hygienic environment during childhood can increase a child's risk of developing asthma and eczema, say UK researchers. |
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| COULD THE WESTERN DIET CAUSE SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS? |
| The modern western diet may be causing more myopia in children, according to an Australian researcher.
Dr Jennie Brand-Miller, a nutrition scientist at the University of Sydney working in a team led by Dr Loren Cordain, an evolutionary biologist at Colorado State University suggests that more processed food in the diet is increasing insulin production and distorting the normal growth of the eyeball. |
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| HORMONE-RICH SHAMPOOS. ARE HORMONE-RICH SHAMPOOS MAKING SOME GIRLS ENTER PUBERTY EARLY? |
| If your daughter starts puberty early, you might want to check her shampoo. Unbeknown to many parents, a few hair products-especially some marketed to black people-contain small amounts of hormones that could cause premature sexual development in girls. |
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| VANISHING TWIN THEORY DEBUNKED |
| Contrary to the standard dogma, Australian researchers have found that twins have no less chance of survival as embryos than single babies. |
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| STUDY BOOSTS SUSPECTED LINK BETWEEN MOTHERS’ GUM DISEASE AND BOTH PREMATURE BIRTH, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT |
| Mothers who suffer from gum disease are significantly more likely to deliver their babies prematurely than women without that illness, which also is known as periodontal disease, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows. Such women also are more likely than others to deliver babies whose weight is less than normal. |
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| 'AAAS' SPEAKERS REPORT WORLDWIDE 'EPIDEMIC' OF OBESITY |
| Obesity, considered until recently to be an exclusively "Western" disease, now poses a serious threat to the health of developing nations, particularly children, say scientists studying this emerging "global epidemic of fat." |
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| TANNING LAMPS MAY INCREASE RISKS OF SKIN CANCERS |
| Users of tanning lamps may have an increased incidence of skin cancers and younger users may be at greatest risk, report Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) researchers. |
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| INFANT IMMUNE SYSTEM IS STRONGER THAN MANY PARENTS THINK |
| From the moment of birth, infants are capable of responding to numerous challenges to the immune system, including multiple vaccines, according to a new report published in the January issue of Pediatrics. |
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| BEST TO BE BORN LAST |
| Hormonal changes in women over successive pregnancies could partly explain why firstborns are more likely to develop allergies than their younger brothers and sisters. |
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| UNIQUE UNC STUDY CONFIRMS SUSPECTED WORLDWIDE EPIDEMIC OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY |
| Twenty-five of every 100 U.S. children are either overweight or obese, but children from other major nations are beginning to weigh too much as well, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study concludes. Sixteen percent of Russian youths are overweight or downright fat, and the figure for Chinese children is 7 percent. |
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| TELEVISION CAN ENHANCE CHILDREN'S INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, STUDY FINDS |
| Television is so commonly criticized as being bad for children that an important fact sometimes gets overlooked: some types of television viewing may actually enhance children's intellectual development, according to a study. |
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| BABIES' HANDS MOVE TO THE RHYTHM OF LANGUAGE |
| Baby babbling, universally uttered by healthy hearing babies when they are about seven months old, is thought to mark the developmental moment when a young child embarks on the road to spoken language. Now, new insight into why this behavior occurs can be found in the hands of hearing babies as they acquire a natural signed language. |
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| MOTHERS TRANSMIT DNA THROUGH DAUGHTERS ONLY |
| Scientists have argued whether or not the often-studied mitochondrial DNA molecule is clonally inherited. It is with assuming clonal inheritance this type of DNA has been used to track the origin of modern human as well as to draw pictures of genetic relationships among other animals and plants. |
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| BREASTFEEDING FOR LESS THAN 3 MONTHS MAY AFFECT A CHILD'S INTELLIGENCE |
| Breastfeeding for less than 3 months may affect a child's intellectual development, finds research in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. |
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| ARE BIGGER BABIES BRIGHTER? |
| Smaller babies tend to have lower IQs, even if the children are in the normal weight range, a new study shows. While the differences are too small to have any practical significance for individuals, they might be important at a population level. |
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| SORTING THE GIRLS FROM THE BOYS |
| IVF couples wanting a baby girl now have a 90 per cent chance of having their wishes fulfilled if the man's sperm is treated with a special sex-sorting technique before conception. The odds are the latest results from an ongoing clinical trial of the technique known as MicroSort, which can selectively sift out sperm cells carrying the X-chromosome. |
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| GAS COOKING HAS A HARMFUL EFFECT ON THE LUNG FUNCTION OF ADOLESCENTS |
| Gas cooking has a harmful effect on the lung function of girls who are susceptible to allergies, concludes research in Thorax. |
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| PARENTS SHOULDN'T MAKE POISONED CHILDREN SICK |
| Parents, whose children swallowed a small amount of poisonous substance (berries, mushrooms, medicine), should never make poisoned children sick. In sicking, poisonous substance may come from esophagus into air tubes and lungs and result in a quick death when poisons have penetrated to the blood. |
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| GOOD OLD CLASSIC TOYS |
| Despite practically all new toys are filled up with various electronic devices and sometimes have an unattractive design, they are cheap at the same time. |
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| WHEN BABY STOPS BEING THE COLOR-BLIND |
| Children's sight is known to appear not immediately after the birth. For instance, sight sharpness of a 3-month baby is very low and attains only 0.001 to 0.005 of the normal level. Sight sharpness of a 6-month baby rises up to 0.01-0.03 of the normal value, and only a baby is 3 to 4 years olds his sight sharpness reaches the normal value. Diagnostics (especially, diagnostics at early stages) of serious diseases of retina and ophthalmic can be carried out only based on a study of the eyes' optic functions. |
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| WHO IS SMARTER? |
| Geneticists say that the level of mental development of the children born of parents who are cousins is expected to be lower than that of "ordinary" children. This fact is confirmed,
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