Add to My Stories Marathons are ever popular with celebrities like chef Gordon Ramsay regularly taking part. But even healthy competitors could hurt their hearts Marathon runners who are not fully fit should take heed – they can cause damage to their heart that will take three months to repair, according to researchers.
A woman’s blood type could affect her fertility and influence her chances of getting pregnant, scientists have found A woman’s blood group could influence her chances of getting pregnant, scientists have found. Those with blood type O may struggle to conceive due to a lower egg count and poorer egg quality, while those with blood group A seem to be more fertile. More than 560 women with an average age of 35 undergoing fertility treatment took part in the research, led by experts from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and Yale University
UN delegates and advocates gathered last month in New York to assess progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). With just five years remaining to meet the goals, and maternal health (Goal 5) the furthest off-track, the MDG Summit was an important opportunity for those of us in the reproductive health field to come together and fight for women and families. Compared to the pre-summit hoopla, however, I am struck by the silence that has followed
Hypnotic Latin dancing? Fire-escape climbs? Inspirational spinning classes?
Infecting over 3,000 people and killing at least 250, a cholera outbreak is currently sweeping across Haiti, bringing a new wave of tragedy to a nation which, until now, had been slowly recovering from a massive earthquake earlier this year. Unfortunately, the cholera outbreak is only the latest in a line of infectious diseases to strike one of the world’s developing regions in recent years.
Add to My Stories In the right hands, medical lasers can have almost miraculous effects. They can erase unsightly thread veins and birthmarks, and treat the redness of the skin disease rosacea. These powerful beams of light even reduce scarring and stretch marks, and eliminate unwanted body hair.
Add to My Stories Cancer is often regarded in our society as a natural, if grim, part of the human condition — a dark shadow that hangs over our health. This is hardly surprising, given that one in three people develop cancer at some stage in their lives, with the disease ultimately responsible for a quarter of all deaths in Britain.
Why do models feel the urge to ‘do good’ after they retire from the catwalk? Emine Saner asks Christy Turlington about her new campaigning career Christy Turlington’s first documentary film opens with alarming footage of the former model just after she has given birth to her first child, Grace, now seven. Her husband, the actor and film-maker Ed Burns, had filmed his daughter being born, but when Turlington started to haemorrhage, he kept the camera rolling: bloodstained sheets and thighs, a palpable sense of growing panic
My son drinks an awful lot of milk – is he risking future health problems? Plus a case of excessive sweating Since my 15-year-old son was born, he has been a great milk drinker. Now, at 6ft tall, healthy, active and without an ounce of fat on him, he drinks between 12 and 16 pints of milk a week, and we’re a little worried about the possible long-term effects.
Our impulses are often contradictory – the shopaholic versus the wise spender, the exercise fiend versus the couch potato – but we can control which one prevails Not long ago, I was persuaded to sign up for a weekly exercise class that met in my local park at 6.30am. It was marketed, militaristically, as a “bootcamp”, a?phrase now in common usage in the fitness industry, apparently in the belief that people, especially male ones, will find it less embarrassing to do star jumps in public if they think of it as preparation for hypothetically killing people later. But I realised it was just an exercise class
Ever since the Supreme Court handed over to corporations the right to anonymously pump unlimited amounts of money into influencing elections, we no longer know who is behind those nasty attack ads flooding the airways these days. Shadowy corporate front groups using patriotic sounding names like Karl Rove’s and former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie’s “American Crossroads” and the billionaire Koch Brothers’ “Americans For Prosperity,” along with dozens of others like them, are funneling hundreds of millions of dollars from unidentified donors into ads against candidates and elected officials who could throw a monkey wrench into their extremist agenda. Leading the progressive counterattack nationally is Public Citizen , which was created by Ralph Nader some forty years ago and is still watching our backs and best interests, oftentimes taking issues right up to the Supreme Court — and winning
In 1991, my husband and I lost our 5-year-old daughter, Colette, to a non-genetic form of cancer called Wilm’s Tumor. Four years later, in March of 1995, we came across the newly released study, “Parental Exposure to Pesticides and Risk of Wilm’s Tumor in Brazil” published by the American Journal of Epidemiology . Having been exposed to pesticides during my pregnancy, this study confirmed to us that the grossly premature death of our daughter could have been prevented.
If you like your fruits and vegetables with pesticides, then you’ll be glad to know the conventional produce industry is boasting of a big win with the Obama administration. An October 20 story in the online version of The Produce News — we read it so you don’t have to — reports that on October 19, executives with the United Fresh Produce Association met with “high-level officials” of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration and elicited a promise to “look into” how the administration “packages the release of annual pesticide data.” The reason
