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Advance your health with iHealth peripherals

January 12, 2012

Glucose monitoring is just one aspect of the iHealth package.

iHealth Lab, Inc. offers innovative, mobile personal healthcare products that make it simple and easy to test, track, graph and securely share health information. The iHealth Blood Pressure Dock is the first personal health management tool for iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. iHealth Lab continues innovating with its iHealth Scale, which measures, tracks and securely shares weight change over time. Plans to develop a suite of personal healthcare devices and applications designed for use with the Apple iOS mobile platform are under way…

Photos by Thomas Frey

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How China’s One Baby Policy works?

January 10, 2012

Fertility on the decline, but at what cost?

You probably already know that China has a one child per couple policy, but you might not know how it is enforced or who is granted exceptions to the rule. The answers to these questions can be found over at Mental Floss and they are simply fascinating….

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Analysis, Baby Gadgets, Big Problems, Latest Trend

Cocaine on 9 in 10 baby changing stations in the UK

December 21, 2011

Changing tables are convenient for changing a baby or, apparently, snorting a line.

Those baby changing stations found in public bathrooms often look a little suspect when it comes to cleanliness. But of all the things you might imagine would be mucking up the surface, probably cocaine didn’t cross your mind.

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Animals Adopting Animals – Top 10 Crazy Stories

October 24, 2011

1.) Isabella, a golden retriever in Kansas who adopted 3 white Bengal tiger cubs and nursed them as her own. Zookeepers Tom and Allie Harvey brought the cubs home, and their dog Isabella stepped right up.

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Entertainment, Great Videos, Humor, Science & Technology News

Baby plays with a magazine like it’s an iPad: video

October 14, 2011

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Today kids think the world revolves around them. They think that texting trumps face-to-face conversations and that print magazines are actually iPads.

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Two-faced baby born in Pakistan

September 29, 2011

Two faces are not better than one.

Doctors at Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi have been trying to save a baby born with two faces, as he has been having breathing problems. They have been unable to feed the baby through the mouth, sources have said. The baby is the third child of a couple from Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Paediatric Ward Senior Registrar Dr Qaisar Aziz said that the new born baby has been shifted to the intensive care unit of the children’s ward and was being take good care of…

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‘Baby fever’ is real and men suffer from it too: study

August 26, 2011

Overall, men still want sex rather than fatherhood.

“Baby fever” — that sudden, visceral, and almost irresistible urge to have a baby — not only exists, it can be found in both men and women, according to a new study in the psychological journal Emotion.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Culture, Globalism, Historical Perspectives, New Viewpoints

Oliver and Olivia most popular baby names in 2010

July 28, 2011

Do you want your baby name to be part of the popular crowd?

Oliver and Olivia are the most popular baby names in England and Wales for the second year running, it was revealed today.

Jack held on to second place in the boys’ name category after slipping from the top spot last year after a 14-year reign.

Sophie jumped three places up the rankings, making it the second most popular name for girls, according to figures published today by the Office for National Statistics on first names given to babies born in 2010…

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C-sections in U.S. climb to all-time high

July 24, 2011

Between 2002 and 2009, the number of cesarean deliveries rose significantly, from 27 percent of births to 34 percent, finds a new report based on information from 19 U.S. states.

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Birth, Health & Fitness, Hot Issues, Human Behavior, Report

The untold story behind abortion drug RU-486

July 13, 2011

A new report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reveals a listing of “adverse events” regarding use of mifepristone (RU-486). According to the data, 14 women have died using the abortion drug and 2,207 American women have sustained injuries. Approx 1.5 million women have taken the drug so far.

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Ethical Debate Surrounds Prenatal Blood Test for Down Dyndrome

June 12, 2011

More accurate blood test could spare many women the need for an amnio or CVS.

When she saw the results of the blood test she threw up even though the test only revealed a risk. Now she needed to find out for sure.

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Babies to be Given Anti-obesity Drugs in the Womb

May 11, 2011

Doctors hope it will prevent the birth of oversized babies.

In a trial described as ‘disturbing’ by weight loss groups, babies will be given a diet drug in the womb to stop them being born overweight. One hundred obese moms-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births.

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