20. November 2009 03:37
A major new study by researchers at Harvard and McGill Universities - the largest ever to look at working conditions worldwide - finds the United States far behind other economically successful nations in terms of adopting policies that support workers and families.
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9. November 2009 01:47
A nutritionist whose research was instrumental in adding fruits and vegetables to the federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) food subsidy will receive the March of Dimes Agnes Higgins Award for outstanding achievement in the field of maternal-fetal nutrition.
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4. November 2009 01:06
The American Dietetic Association has released an updated position paper on breastfeeding that details health benefits for both infants and mothers and encourages promotion of breastfeeding whenever possible.
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Posted in: Women's Health News
Tags: Asthma, Bone, Breast Cancer, Breast Milk, Breastfeeding, Cancer, Depression, Diabetes, Education, Gastroenteritis, Hospital, Hypercholesterolemia, Leukemia, Maternal Health, Nutrition, Obesity, Ovarian Cancer, Postpartum Depression, Pregnancy, Type 2 Diabetes
24. October 2009 00:57
Women who lived in villages sprayed with DDT to reduce malaria gave birth to 33 per cent more baby boys with urogenital birth defects (UGBD) between 2004 and 2006 than women in unsprayed villages, according to research published online by the UK-based urology journal BJUI.
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23. October 2009 04:22
Women who lived in villages sprayed with DDT to reduce malaria gave birth to 33 per cent more baby boys with urogenital birth defects (UGBD) between 2004 and 2006 than women in unsprayed villages, according to research published online by the UK-based urology journal BJUI.
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22. October 2009 04:41
All infant formulas, whether ready-to-feed, concentrated or organic, contain fluoride at levels which can discolor developing teeth, reports the October 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA)(1).
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21. October 2009 00:53
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced 76 grants of US$100,000 each to pursue bold ideas for transforming health in developing countries. The grants support researchers across 16 countries, including nine in Europe and Africa with ideas as diverse as using the power of sunlight to kill malaria-causing mosquito larvae and developing a device that repels mosquitoes without insecticides.
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19. October 2009 05:45
Parents and caregivers are hearing and following the feeding guidance for infants, yet continued work needs to be done to help them also build good eating habits for their growing children, suggests data from the Nestle Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) released today at a symposium at the American Dietetic Association's Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo.
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13. October 2009 08:21
Human milk oligosaccharides - an important ingredient in human breast milk - play a central role in protecting infants against infection. An innovative process developed by Jennewein Biotechnologie GmbH allows for the first time ever the production of these scarce sugar molecules for use as an ingredient in baby food and in additional food products.
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9. October 2009 07:36
One hundred years ago, Kikunae Ikeda discovered the flavour-giving properties of glutamate, a non essential amino acid traditionally used to enhance the taste of many fermented or ripe foods, such as ripe tomatoes or cheese.
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3. October 2009 02:00
The levels of the components in breast milk change every 24 hours in response to the needs of the baby. A new study published in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience shows, for example, how this milk could help newborn babies to sleep.
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Posted in: Child Health News | Women's Health News
Tags: Adenosine, Asthma, Blood Pressure, Breast Cancer, Breast Milk, Breastfeeding, Cancer, Depression, Nervous System, Neuroscience, Nutrition, Obesity, Osteoporosis, Pregnancy, Sleep
28. September 2009 06:28
Merck has thoroughly reviewed the safety data for sitagliptin, and sitagliptin was not associated with an increase in the incidence of pancreatitis in preclinical studies or in clinical trials of up to two years in duration with more than 6,000 patients.
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Posted in: Pharmaceutical News
Tags: Abdominal Pain, Amiloride, Anemia, Angioedema, Blindness, Breast Milk, Calcium, Cell, Chloramphenicol, Chromosome, Congestive Heart Failure, Creatinine, Cyclosporine, Dehydration, Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Dialysis, Diarrhea, Diet, DNA, Estradiol, Ethanol, Exercise, Fertility, Furosemide, Glibenclamide, Headache, Heart Failure, Hospital, Hyperglycemia, Hyperinsulinemia, Hypersensitivity, Hypoglycemia, Hypothermia, Ibuprofen, Indigestion, Insulin, Isoniazid, Kidney Disease, Lymphoma, Metabolism, Metformin, Morphine, Nausea, Nursing, Obesity, Pancreatitis, Pharmacology, Pioglitazone, Pregnancy, Quinine, Salicylates, Sepsis, Septicemia, Sore Throat, Stress, Stroke, Sulfonylurea, Thiazolidinediones, Toxicology, Trauma, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Urticaria, Vasculitis, Vomiting, Warfarin
26. September 2009 01:23
Merck & Co., Inc., which operates in many countries as Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), has received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for JANUVIA® tablets and JANUMET® tablets recommending their use as add-on to insulin for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
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Posted in: Medical Condition News | Pharmaceutical News
Tags: Abdominal Pain, Amiloride, Anemia, Angioedema, Blindness, Breast Milk, Calcium, Cell, Chloramphenicol, Chromosome, Congestive Heart Failure, Creatinine, Cyclosporine, Dehydration, Diabetes, Diabetes Mellitus, Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Dialysis, Diarrhea, Diet, DNA, Estradiol, Ethanol, Exercise, Fertility, Furosemide, Glibenclamide, Headache, Heart Failure, Hospital, Hyperglycemia, Hyperinsulinemia, Hypersensitivity, Hypoglycemia, Hypothermia, Ibuprofen, Indigestion, Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Isoniazid, Kidney Disease, Lymphoma, Metabolism, Metformin, Morphine, Nausea, New Drug Application, Nursing, Obesity, Pancreatitis, Pharmacology, Pioglitazone, Pregnancy, Quinine, Salicylates, Sepsis, Septicemia, Sore Throat, Stress, Stroke, Sulfonylurea, Thiazolidinediones, Toxicology, Trauma, Type 1 Diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Urticaria, Vasculitis, Vomiting, Warfarin
25. September 2009 06:39
A comparison of breast milk samples from Denmark and Finland revealed a significant difference in environmental chemicals which have previously been implicated in testicular cancer or in adversely affecting development of the fetal testis in humans and animals. This finding is published today in the International Journal of Andrology.
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15. September 2009 03:30
Research has shown that children who were breast fed as infants have superior cognitive skills compared to those fed infant formula, and it's thought that this is due to an essential fatty acid in breast milk called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Now a new study has found that babies fed formula supplemented with DHA have higher cognitive skills than babies fed regular formula.
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