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POPSGenetics of Autism Interesting piece from All Things Considered last night about causes of autism... issues related to prematurity were not included.
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POPSMAJORITY WOULD DIE BEFORE THE AGE OF FIVE It is difficult for a woman to know that she will have a sick child...I can't understand...They don't have enough help, then why having more babies?...Please, if I'm wrong, tell me because each time that I read this things makes me sad...The article says that mother to child transmission programmes have been slow to get off the ground in sub-Saharan Africa. Half a million babies are estimated to have been infected with HIV at birth or during breastfeeding last year alone. The Zimbabwe study suggests as many as one in four may survive into adolescence. One of the main public health messages, she said, was the need to prevent infection from mother to child during birth and breastfeeding The baby can be protected, but relatively few pregnant women with HIV are offered the chance to protect their baby.
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POPSThe Chemistry of B.O. Unsurprisingly perhaps, men and women tended to produce different mixtures—though no single compound differentiated the sexes. The study provides a new method for measuring a person’s baseline odor. Because body odor can change with the onset of illness, the method could lead to new ways of diagnosing disease
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POPSTooth Brushing And Epilepsy The new study brings the number of cases linking tooth-brushing and epilepsy reported in the literature to five. Four of those patients said similar unusual sensations preceded a seizure: numbness in the head or a tingling in the tongue.
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POPSWelcome to the Fish Fry, Mom The authors of the British study concluded that they found "no evidence to lend support to the warnings of the U.S. advisory that pregnant women should limit their seafood consumption." The government's warning has had the effect of leading many women not to eat seafood at all. And that, it's now clear, looks like a big mistake. In the British study, mothers who ate no seafood were 48 percent more likely than the seafood chowhounds to have children with a low verbal IQ at age 8. Their children were also worse behaved and less sociable than the kids of fish-snarfing moms. There is more information about this...
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POPSHuge Polar Study About To Begin Ahead of the IPY's launch, a team of researchers on the CAML project completed a 10-week census of marine life in a near-pristine strech of Antarctic seabed. "What we learned from the...expedition is the tip of an iceberg, so to speak," said team leader Michael Stoddart.
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POPSThe Benefits of Breast feeding- more social? i breast fed my daughter- and i'll do it again with the one coming--- but it seems so crazy to me that all these benefits are true...i wasn't breastfed, and i'm plenty social!! and i know plenty of people that were and these statistics just don't add up.
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POPSMen Are Easier To Clone Than Women "The difference in cloning rates of male and female stem cells seems likely to involve epigenetics," said Prof Fuchs. Epigenetic modifications are those that affect a gene's function without altering its DNA sequence. Because one of a female's two X chromosomes (men only have one) is turned off through epigenetic modifications, female cells have to undergo a more complicated epigenetic reprogramming than male ones and this may account for why males are easier to clone.
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POPSThree Times More Children Taught At Home In 2002 a study of home-educated children found that 64 per cent scored more than 75 per cent on the performance indicators of primary schools assessment, compared with 5.1 per cent of children nationally. The study found that some parents used formal and highly structured methods, including following the national curriculum, using online tutors and hiring professionals. Others were less conventional.
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POPSStudy:Alien Worlds Have Dry Atmospheres Scientists have found 213 planets outside our solar system, but only 14 have orbits that make it possible for this type of study; only eight or nine of those are close enough to see. Grillmair's team studied the closest, which goes by the catch name HD 189733b. But for the question: Where did water go?: Maybe it's hiding, scientists suggest. The water could be under dust clouds, or all the airborne water molecules have the same temperature, making it impossible to see using an infrared spectrograph. Or maybe it is just not there and astronomers have to go back to the drawing board when it comes to these alien planets. The other finding on the more distant of the two planets seems to indicate that the atmosphere is full of silicon-oxygen compounds, said study lead author L. Jeremy Richardson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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POPSOne Hot Archaelogical Find It's impossible to identify with certainty the first spice ever sprinkled on a roasting haunch or thrown into a stew pot. But Wendy L. Applequist, an ethnobotanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, said capers have been found at 10,000-year-old sites in Iran and Irak; coriander at an 8,500-year-old site in Israel; and fenugreek in Syria's Tell Aswad, which is 9,000 years old. Whether these were domesticated or wild is not known.
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POPSMore Evidence For Water On Mars What I can't understand is that: Two craters in the southern hemisphere that were originally photographed in 1999 and 2001 were examined again in 2004 and 2005, and the images yielded changes consistent with water flowing down the crater walls, according to the study...
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POPSOne "Bad Apple" Spoils The Whole Office Hiring managers could head off the problem by being more thorough when screening potential employees, Felps said. He recommends checking references and a and administering personality tests to weed out those who are "really low on agreeableness and emotional stability."
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POPSHelp Kids Stay Thin By Putting Them To Bed The study did not examine why children who slept less tended to weigh more, but Snell cited a few possible explanations. Not getting enough sleep may affect hormones that influence appetite, Snell said. Getting less sleep - for example, staying up an hour later at night - may provide more opportunity to eat, she added. And she said not getting enough sleep may leave a person more lethargic, cutting down on exercise. Snell said on weekdays, school schedules can dictate when children must wake up, but parents can control bedtime.
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POPSGood News For Slackers: Naps Can Help The Heart Trichopoulos advice is: If you can, if you have a sofa in your office, if you can relax, do it." Isn't that nice...What I can't understand is...If the researchers said naps are good for people at work...why they are slackers?
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POPSScientists Becoming Mind-Readers The question is: How a person has decided to act in the future? The understanding could find use in mind-reading methods under development to enable tetraplegic to move prosthetic limbs and operate computers.
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POPSHuman Skin Is A Zoo Of Bacteria The findings also suggested there may be differences between men and women in terms of the colonies of the bacteria....Professor Blaser said: "Many of the bacteria of the human body are still unknown. We all live with bacteria all our lives and occasionally we smile, so they're not that bad for us."
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POPS4 in 10 Kids See Adult Material Online But...they say that even more kids are looking for adult material but weren't willing to admit it in a .....phone survey....could you believe this? More than 40 percent of teens and preteens surveyed say they've recently come across nudity and pornography on the Internet, and most say they weren't looking for it, according to a study released today... How did the children come across adult material if they didn't want to?...
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POPSA Wink And A Smile Could be that men and women often misunderstand each other's flirtation signals?...What do you think?
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POPSNapoleon Killed by Stomach Cancer? Richard Dirnhofer, a forensic medicine expert from Bern, Switzerland, told Discovery News: "This is a great study. As a forensic and criminalistic pathologist, I view the result of this paper as a perfect medical-historic-forensic reconstruction." If this study can help history, how could it help us today? Is good to know that this help us trust the medicine today...
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POPSCan You Prevent Alzheimer's Disease? Other actions that you can take to prevent Alzheimer's are less clear...Some research suggests that the benefit of eating vegetables to prevent Alzheimer's is due to the vitamin Econtained in the vegetables themselves or in the oils added in salads...Where does all of his leave us? Even if there's no guarantee you will never develop Alzheimer's disease, exercising regularly and eating more fish and vegetables are certainly sensible prescriptions for maintaining general health....And keeping the brain sharp with mental exercises sounds like lots of fun...So, you don't think that we should keep going for the the best results..
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POPSKill Cancer without side effects The first paragraph of this article was as follows, as I could not clip it without getting all the other info on the page ! ! ! Capsaicin - the compound that makes chilli peppers spicy - can kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells, with no side effects, according to a new study by researchers at Nottingham University in the UK.
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