If you, or someone in your family, smokes and you have children, then it is important to ensure that they are not the recipients of, which is classified as a known human (Group A) carcinogen by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. Secondhand smoke is scientifically correlated with a range of illnesses from asthma to cancer to heart disease, and it is even more damaging to children whose lungs and immune systems are still developing. Given the statistics, the less exposure your kids have, the better. Read the rest of this entry »
Many of us have a phobia – an extreme or irrational fear – of something. Most of the time we can live with such fears, but in some cases they can take over a person’s life. Luckily, help is at hand.
What is a phobia?
A phobia is an intense fear or feeling of anxiety that occurs only in a particular situation that frightens you. Read the rest of this entry »
A review of 100 attacks on guide dogs (dogs that help blind people get around) by other dogs report that there are over 3 attacks each month in the UK, with bull breeds accounting for approximately 40% of all attacks, according to a report published in this week’s Veterinary Record, a BMJ publication.
The authors, two of whom work for the UK Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, examined data on 100 canine attacks on guide dogs between November 2006 and April 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
UNISON, the UK’s leading public sector union, today slammed private homecare companies for exploiting staff and leaving elderly people without the care and support they need.
Private care companies routinely employ staff on zero hours contracts, that often means huge swings in paid hours for staff. By refusing to pay for travel time between visits, many home carers are effectively paid below the minimum wage. Read the rest of this entry »
If more women quit smoking before they became pregnant, it would save infant lives, concludes a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Despite a decline over the past decade in the number of women who smoke during pregnancy, smoking is still a major cause of newborn deaths, early births and babies born with low birth weight.
“We know about half of women quit when they find out that they are pregnant, but a lot of women are still smoking during pregnancy,” said Patricia Dietz, DrPh, lead study investigator. Read the rest of this entry »
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered a method to select sperm with the highest DNA integrity in a bid to improve male fertility. The method is comparable to that of the egg’s natural selection abilities, according to the study published in the June/July issue of the Journal of Andrology.
“Our results could help address the fact that approximately 40 percent of infertility cases can be traced to male infertility,” said the senior author of the study, Gabor Huszar, M.D., director of the Sperm Physiology Lab and senior research scientist in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale. Read the rest of this entry »
If you, or someone in your family, smokes and you have children, then it is important to ensure that they are not the recipients of, which is classified as a known human (Group A) carcinogen by the U.S. 
