It's taken nearly 200 years,but scientists in Arizona and Europe have teased out how the molecular switch for sex gradually and adaptively evolved in the honeybee. The first genetic mechanism for sex determination was proposed in the ...
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Physicians in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the Maxine Dunitz Children's Health Center launched a pilot study in which mothers' breast milk is analyzed to determine whether premature infants are receiving the correct amounts of ...
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A new baby can put a strain on mom's back, sometimes leading to injury and pain. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons suggests how new moms can prevent a sore back: Resume exercising as soon as is safe after delivering baby. ...
North American labor rights groups welcomed a landmark agreement, announced, to deliver an estimated $40 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and called on Walmart, ...
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The elimination of extensive routine preoperative tests and consultations represents an area of potentially large health care savings across many disciplines, particularly for low-risk patients being evaluated for cataract surgery. It is ...
Women with aggressive breast cancer who receive combination targeted therapy with chemotherapy prior to surgery have a slightly improved chance of staying cancer-free, researchers say. However, the improvement was not statistically ...
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The chair of the National Farm Animal Care Council's Pig Code Development Committee says the update of Canada's Pig Code of Practice is on track for completion by mid-spring. The National Farm Animal Care Council's Pig Code Development ...
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Ann Marie Reynolds, a 32-year-old who has been in and out of hospitals fighting chronic kidney disease since she was a teenager, had a less than 1 percent chance of receiving a kidney without the University of Alabama at Birmingham's ...
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More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn't exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of ...
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The H7N9 bird flu virus does not yet have the ability to easily infect people, a new study indicates. The findings contradict some previous research suggesting that H7N9 poses an imminent threat of causing a global pandemic. The H7N9 ...
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Members of the U.S.Biotech Crops Alliance,a collaborative effort to improve the environment for technology innovation and the market for U.S.crops produced through modern biotechnology,met in Washington this week to discuss recent progress ...
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The movement for healthier, high-performing buildings has reached a new milestone, as the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) issued the 20,000th LEED certification for a commercial project. This month, USGBC’s Green Building ...
Young children are falling out of high chairs at alarming rates, according to a new safety study that found high chair accidents increased 22 percent between 2003 and 2010. U.S. emergency rooms now attend to an average of almost 9,500 ...
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There's good news for people trying to quit smoking: Aids such as nicotine gums and patches or smoking cessation drugs such as Chantix won't harm the heart. The new findings may ease concerns that some products that help people "butt out" ...
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High chairs can keep children safe when they eat, but only when used properly. The American Academy of Pediatrics offers these tips for safe use of a high chair: Choose a chair that doesn't easily tip over. Any foldable high chair ...
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