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Caesarean Births Pose Higher Risks For Mother And Baby, Study Finds
Women having a non-emergency Caesarean birth have double the risk of illness or even death compared to a vaginal birth, according to a new study. However, the researchers found Caesarean delivery prevented deaths in breech born babies. 'Clean' Vehicle Research Initiative On Track, But Many Challenges Ahea
A public-private effort to develop more fuel-efficient automobiles and eventually introduce hydrogen as a transportation fuel is well-planned and identifies all major hurdles the program will face, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. America's Farm Bill 2007
Material from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) about the 2007 reauthorization of the Farm Bill, which provides subsidies to U.S. farmers. The 2007 bill includes "more than 65 proposals [that] correspond to the 2002 farm bill titles with additional special focus areas, including specialty crops, beginning farmers and ranchers, and socially disadvantaged producers."Includes news, fact sheets, and related material on topics such as conservation, energy, forestry, nutrition, and rural development. Women of Ravensbrück: Portraits of Courage
This exhibit looks at the history and background of the Ravensbrück camp, a World War II concentration camp for women. It features stories from several inmates, images of the camp and of prisoner art, and essays on topics such as children, medical experiments, spiritual resistance, and concentration camp cookbooks. Based on an exhibit at the Florida Holocaust Museum, this is part of virtual museum of the University of Minnesota Center of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. No Reliable Risk Factors Found For Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infectio
Loren Miller, M.D., M.P.H. has found no reliable epidemiological or clinical risk factors that could distinguish patients with CA-MRSA infection from patients with CA-MSSA infection. "What this means,"says Dr. Miller, "is that the average Joe or Jane can get CA-MRSA." Nanotechnology Surges Into Health And Fitness Products
More than 60 percent of the 580 products in a newly-updated inventory of nanotechnology consumer products are such 'un-geeky'items as sports equipment and clothing. And, manufacturers are overwhelmingly using silver as the nanomaterial of choice. Seagrass Ecosystems At A 'Global Crisis'
An international team of scientists is calling for a targeted global conservation effort to preserve seagrasses and their ecological services for the world's coastal ecosystems, according to an article published in the December issue of Bioscience. The article "A Global Crisis for Seagrass Ecosystems"cites the critical role seagrasses play in coastal systems and how costal development, population growth and the resulting increase of nutrient and sediment pollution have contributed to large-scale losses worldwide. [Interesting] Man Turns in More Than $10,480 in Pennies
A retiree turned in more than 1 million pennies at a coin-counting machine Tuesday, getting $10,480.13 back for 3 1/2 decades of thrift. Eat Well, Get Fit, Stop Smoking -- Prevent Cancer
If you wanted to start today to reduce your chances of getting cancer, what would you have to do? Lose excess weight, get more exercise, eat a healthy diet and quit smoking. Those basic behavior changes would have a tremendous impact on the incidence of the most prevalent types of cancer -- lung, breast, prostate and colon cancer -- says Graham Colditz, M.D., Dr.P.H., associate director of Prevention and Control at the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Understanding Fragile X Syndrome With The Blink Of An Eye
While researchers have long known the genetic defect underlying Fragile X syndrome, they are still tracing how that defect creates the complex mix of mental retardation, hyperactive behavior, attention deficits, and other problems in the disorder. Fragile X is particularly important because it is the most common single-gene cause of mental retardation -- affecting about 1 in 4000 males and 1 in 8000 females in the U.S.
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