Alas, the Brits have done it again! They gave the world the first IVF baby (the called test-tube baby) more than 30 years ago. Last year, they presented the first “breast-cancer-free” baby. And now, here’s their latest coup: the first egg-screening baby.
Welcome Oliver, the first baby ever produced using Array Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (Array [...]
Tags: Array CGH, egg screen, embryo, ethics, human egg, IVF, Oliver
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Now there’s one more reason to hold your newborn baby in your arms as much as possible and save the car seat for the car.
A new study, published in Pediatrics magazine, showed that healthy two-day-old infants placed in car seats for an hour had lower average blood oxygen levels than those lying on their backs [...]
Tags: car seat, newborn risk, oxygen saturation level, Pediatrics study
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Let’s face it, some children are tough to feed. Most parents know that their children are notoriously picky eaters. Some of us parents, not wanting to fight a losing battle will just give them what they want, just so they will eat something. Well, according to some cancer experts, if processed meats falls into that [...]
Tags: bowel cancer, childhood obesity, children’s diets, diet and cancer risks - children, processed meats, World Cancer Research Fund
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An article in Wednesday’s U.K. Daily Telegraph reported on a 34-year-old Tunisian woman claiming to be pregnant with 12 babies – six boys and six girls. The woman, it said, conceived 12 babies after fertility treatments following multiple miscarriages.
A few days later, the Telegraph reported that an investigation by the Tunisian Health Ministry revealed that [...]
Tags: 12 babies, false pregnancy, hoax, Nadya Suleman, Octomom, pseudocyesis, Tunisian woman pregnant
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Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood was locked down on Monday after an attempted newborn abduction from a mother’s room. Technology did its job, however, the infant abduction warning alarm went off and the baby was recovered.
The would-be abductor, reportedly a woman dressed in hospital garb, got away. The AP report requests [...]
Tags: baby abduction, Fort Hood, hospital safety, kidnapping, protection, Safety
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