Wednesday, 14 June 2017, marked World Blood Donor Day – a day of raising awareness about the importance of donating blood, blood safety, celebration of volunteer blood donors, and encouraging people to donate, all over…
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Mother’s obesity boosts risk for major birth defects: study
Children of obese women are more likely to be afflicted by major birth defects, including malformations of the heart and genitals, according to a study published on Thursday. The fatter the mother, the higher…
Today is World Blood Donor Day: 10 facts you may not know
Today, 14 June 2017, is World Blood Donor Day. Wednesday marks a day of raising awareness about the importance of donating blood, blood safety, celebrating the volunteer blood donors, and encouraging people to donate, all…
Kendall Jenner’s 11-minute workout that will get your abs crying!
When you don’t feel like heading to the gym or leaving the house, how can you still get a banging workout that guarantee’s a flat and defined mid-section like supermodel Kendall Jenner’s? Enter: Kendall’s 11-minute…
Some vaginal bacteria may weaken anti-HIV gel: study
Some kinds of vaginal bacteria may interfere with a gel meant to curb the risk of contracting HIV, which infects more than one million women worldwide each year, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the…
Tobacco kills 7 million a year, wreaks environmental havoc: WHO
Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, also warning of the dire environmental impact of tobacco production, distribution and waste. The UN agency…
Light cigarettes linked to specific form of lung cancer
So-called “light” cigarettes with holes in the filter could be the reason why a specific kind of lung cancer has been on the rise in recent decades, researchers said Monday. Adenocarcinoma is the most common…
Healing the wounds of a miscarriage
Written By Wangui for MumsVillage HAVING A MISCARRIAGE CAN BE AN EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE. Emotionally, it can bring up feeling of anger, fear, guilt, sadness, and worry. It may also, among others,…
Free incubators save lives of Indonesian babies
Tiny Indonesian baby Maryamah stared around from inside an incubator, her bright eyes swivelling left and right from under a woollen hat that was far too big for her. When she was born prematurely, Maryamah…
10-year lifespan gain for some HIV patients: study
The life expectancy of HIV-infected people in Europe and the United States has been boosted by a decade since anti-AIDS drugs became available in the mid-1990s, researchers said Thursday. In fact, a 20-year-old who began…