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...many as 10 percent of Caucasian infants??mostly girls—develop the benign tumor after birth. Made up of proliferating blood vessels, the tumor generally appears in the upper neck or head...
...isn’t the first to discover a new way to guard against TB—two French scientists developed the so-called BCG vaccine to fight the disease in the early 1920s. But the present-day BCG method is far from ideal. It requires injecting needles into infants??a risky endeavor in areas where clean needles are hard to find, and where reusing old ones can spread HIV. Moreover, the BCG vaccine must be stored at cool temperatures, complicating its distribution to remote areas...
...such as anencephaly and spina bifida have been linked directly to the tortillas and other corn products in the diets of expectant mothers living along the Rio Grande. Missmer and her associates isolated fumonsin, a fungal toxin often found in American corn crops, as the likely cause of these infants?? cranial and spinal malformations. The study, conducted on mothers of babies born from the early 1990s to 2000, determined that overexposure to fumonsin inhibits fetal ability to absorb folic acid, a compound known to prevent NTDs. Co-author of the study, Lucina Suarez, who works with the Texas...
...seafood, are linked to neurological development. Oken’s team concluded that seafood improves cognitive ability after measuring the fish intake of over 100 mothers and the “Visual Recognition Memory,” or VRO, of their six-month-old offspring. VRO is based on infants?? ability to perceive “novelty,” and is correlated with future IQ. While omega-3 fatty acids may be beneficial to fetuses, Oken incorporated the FDA’s mercury warnings into her recommendation that women eat light canned tuna and white-meat fish...
Singer—whom one disabled rights activist called “the most dangerous man alive” because he has justified euthanasia for severely impaired infants??has turned his attention to American political rhetoric in his latest book, The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush...