Wellcome Trust - Mothers who eat junk food during pregnancy and breastfeeding may be putting their children at risk of overeating and developing obesity, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust and carried out at the Royal Veterinary College, London. The research suggests that pregnant and breastfeeding women should not indulge in fatty, […]

Prenatal exposure to high level of stress hormone cortisol may affect brain development and sleep patterns.
University of Rochester Medical Center - Anxious or depressed mothers-to-be are at increased risk of having children who will experience sleep problems in infancy and toddlerhood, finds a study that published this month in Early Human Development.
While this finding presents […]

High mercury blood levels in 25 percent of NYC adults and nearly half of Asian New Yorkers, likely from eating too much fish high in mercury.
NYC.gov - A quarter of adult New Yorkers have elevated blood mercury levels, according to survey results released June 23, 2007 by the Health Department, and the elevations are closely […]

Newswise - Very young babies are vulnerable to sudden death, when seated, warns a study published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, one of the British Medical Journals.
Babies less than a month old are most at risk, the research indicates.
The researchers base their findings on an analysis of all sudden unexpected […]

Boston University - A review article on vitamin D just released by Dr. Michael Holick, an internationally recognized expert in vitamin D, provides an overview of his pioneering work that expounds on the important role vitamin D plays in a wide variety of chronic health conditions, as well as suggesting strategies for the prevention and […]

Temple University - Many women are not aware of the risks associated with excess weight gain before and during pregnancy. Physicians need to be aggressively counseling women about the importance of starting pregnancy at a healthy weight, according to Temple University obstetrician-gynecologist Vani Dandolu, M.D.
In a recent analysis published in the American Journal of Perinatology […]