On Wednesday, we heard tragic news of the death of actress Natasha Richardson from a skiing accident (featured on right).
And across the pond, celebrity watching has taken a ghoulish turn with the obsessive coverage of cancer-stricken reality TV star Jade Goody’s imminent death. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer and given just weeks to live [...]
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When it comes to mortality rates among newborn babies, it seems that gender has a lot to do with it.
A recent study shows that baby boys are more likely to die than baby girls in industrialized countries like Europe, Canada, the United States, Japan and Australia. In 1970s, boys had about a 30 percent higher [...]
Tags: baby boys, gender, mortality, survival
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As mom of twins who were born premature and with low birth weights, I always keep my eyes and ears open for the latest developments in birth weight research. Low birth weight has always been associated with health problems such as heart diseases and diabetes in adulthood. But what about high birth weights?
A large-scale Scandinavian [...]
Tags: birth weight, life span, longevity, mortality
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