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...researchers have three theories about why maternal obesity may lead to congenital abnormalities. First, many obese women may also have undiagnosed diabetes, which can lead to abnormal development of a fetus. Second, these moms may be eating a diet that is not as nutritionally sound as that of normal-weight women; obese women are more likely to be missing key nutrients, like folic acid, that are needed to prevent birth defects such as neural-tube abnormalities. "Levels of these nutrients might be lower in these moms, or if they are taking supplements, they may not be at levels that...
...down with NBC's Ann Curry to start to tell her story; the full interviews will air today and Tuesday. Suleman said plenty that will make people squirm even more. But she also exposes how publicly divided and personally judgmental we are about decisions that are, under any normal circumstances, none of our business. (See pictures of the annual Twins' Day festival...
Psychologists called the killer so strange that their normal guidelines "just don't work." And now, more than 26 years after Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide killed seven people in the Chicago area, the Tylenol murders still have enough people scratching their heads that the FBI reopened the case and is taking a fresh look at old suspects...
...hour, Bill Gross, the undisputed king of the fixed income world and chief of investments at Pimco stated "the U.S. may slump into a 'mini depression' unless policy makers spend trillions of dollars to spur growth." He did not make the distinction between a "mini depression" and one of normal size but his comments were, nonetheless, alarming...
...avoid costly cell reprogramming outside the body. The latter technique requires practitioners to have extensive training and specialized facilities that are only available at elite hospitals. The findings, published in the journal Nature Materials last month, seek to combat those tumors that fool the immune system’s normal process of identifying dangerous substances. Normally, a particular type of immune cell—called a dendritic cell—will search the body for foreign matter, targeting it for destruction by T cells, another component of the immune system. But some tumors manage to escape detection, enabling them...