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...mothers who eat seafood during pregnancy have smarter children.The study, published in the October issue of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is a new wrinkle in the debate over the safety of fish consumption for pregnant women.Currently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that pregnant women limit their seafood intake to two servings per week.FDA guidelines say that some types of fish, such as shark, swordfish, and king mackerel, contain high levels of mercury, which has been shown to cause nervous system defects and occasional death in infants. “For most people, the risk from...
Tyler’s return would limit the pressure on freshman Alex Breaux and sophomores Matt Legace and Joe Murt, who have handled the bulk of the receiving load since Tyler and junior wide out Corey Mazza went down...
...weeks to the day after falling to No. 11 ranked Northeastern by strokes, the Harvard field hockey team pushed No. 14 Boston College (11-4, 1-3 ACC) to the limit yesterday before a late surge put the Crimson (5-8, 1-3 Ivy) away in Chesnut Hill. The 4-0 decision was Harvard’s seventh consecutive loss. Despite a goal with 22:08 remaining in the first half by the Eagles’ Crystal Frates, the Crimson had reason for optimism at the half. Trailing just 1-0, Harvard opened the second half with heavy pressure...
...University health officials inoculate members of the Harvard community against the flu this month, they say they’re not expecting to encounter vaccine shortages as severe as last fall’s. Still, the University has taken measures to limit distribution of the vaccine until more is available. Enough of the flu vaccine will be available to inoculate about 71 million people nationwide, according manufacturers cited in The New York Times. While this is fewer than the usual 80 million doses available, it’s an improvement from last year, when only 61 million inoculations could...
...findings key discoveries that would satisfy both scientists and religious activists, many are still skeptical.These two methods, both published in Nature magazine, reflect the burgeoning interest of U.S. researchers in developing alternative ways to create embryonic stem cell lines without having to destroy an embryo. Current federal restrictions limit embryonic stem cell research to cell lines created before August 2001, mainly because opponents of such research claim that traditional methods of creating cell lines require the destruction of embryos. Such a process, they say, is equivalent to murder.The method used by scientists at Advanced Cell Technology—a biotechnology...