What Doctors Don't Tell YouTeflon®, DuPont’s trademarked heat-resistant coating, is now everywhere. On any given morning, you may well encounter it while curling your hair, ironing your clothes, wearing your clothes, cooking your breakfast or sitting on your sofa. All the...
Although it's an established fact that high doses of vitamin A can be toxic, it seems they can also cause defects in the unborn baby. ...
If you live within 3 km of any one of a number of European landfill sites, you’re more likely to produce a child with chromosomal abnormalities.
IS THERE AN ULTIMATE MAGIC BULLET? And could it be the B vitamins?
One of my earliest suspicions of the value of good intentions came to me when I was a kid growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii. We avoided playing in most of our large backyard because of the risk of meeting up with the dreaded huge and horrible African...
The latest studies of computer monitors show a definite link between radiation exposure and miscarriage or birth defects. ...
Throughout the world, folic acid has now become the sacred cow of preconceptual health advice because of its apparent ability to reduce the rate of neural tube defects. But is this faith justified ...
Children conceived by IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) or sperm injection have twice the risk of being born with a major birth defect.
The mainstay of modern obstetric diagnosis is the ultrasound scan (or sonography). Similar to radar, real-time scanners employ very-high-frequency pulsed sound waves (3.5-7 mHz, or 3.5-7 million cycles per second)
One of the great tragedies of our times is the terrible legacy of addiction unwittingly created by medicine in its zeal to take away the pain of childbirth. ...
