Showing posts with label News children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News children. Show all posts

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Obesity of the mother during pregnancy affects the future fertility of daughters

Obesity is never a good idea. Every day there always comes further evidence that overweight is a problem to be solved, especially because obesity affects the risk of death. In the case of a pregnancy, however, an obese woman dysfunction also send some to the offspring. This was revealed by a study by American and Yale in the journal Endocrinology, that obesity during pregnancy decreases the fertility of their daughters.

Friday, March 18, 2011

The first child born without the gene for breast cancer: selected in Spain

Talking about GE brings everything to a human dimension that we thought belonged only to the science fiction film and literature. Yet, Spain is the first child born genetically modified so they do not have the gene for breast cancer. The happy event took place last Christmas, but only now being presented to the world: in practice, this child is the first human being can be defined as "genetically selected" before birth and where you removed the BRCA1 gene - as "gene brother BRCA2 - increases the chances of getting breast cancer, but also in the ovaries and pancreas.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Young people are no longer sex: abstinence for fear of pregnancy

The Department of Health of the United States regularly since 1973 is responsible for conducting extensive research on population growth in order to monitor problems and sexual habits. In fact, experts worry about until recently were the baby pregnancy testified that the worrying trend of young teenagers early in the approach with the opposite sex.

Against this problem the governing bodies of Americans have used a lot and now it seems they begin to ripen the fruits of an information campaign aimed at raising their teenagers. Bill Albert, coordinator of the National Campaign against unwanted teen pregnancies, said the information gleaned from the studies this year: "The general perception is that when it comes to young people and sex, this is bad news will get worse .

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Paracetamol for children to avoid: it is not effective with low-grade fever

It should be obvious but it is better to say it again: the doses of medicines for adults are not the same when those drugs are administered to children. If children have a few lines of fever is not cause for alarm, because the body reacts with the increase in temperature to fight infection. Unfortunately, parents are afraid to use traditional remedies and fever, often causing more damage than benefits.

Baby bottles bisphenol A banned from today blocked the production in Europe

Do not mess around and if we talk about health of children, attention must be greater, especially since the consequences of this inattention could affect their future development. Since the EU has thrown against beberon to bisphenol A, has begun an intensive information campaign. So much so that the limit imposed by the notice at the beginning of this harmful substance was set for June 1, but then the urgency of removing from contact with children has been brought forward to March 1.