Washington (IANS): Offsprings of both lean and obese primate mothers being fed a high-fat diet showed an increased risk of developing non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
If such monkeys were reverted to a low-fat diet during a subsequent pregnancy, this second offspring exhibited fewer signs of NAFLD.
This finding contradicts the thinking that a mother’s obesity during pregnancy is contributing to the rising incidence of obese children Read the rest of this entry »

LAGOS, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Tragedy struck at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, Ogun State, on Sunday as Ajoke Amuda Bello, the 32-year-old mother of sextuplets, died in the early hours of the day.
According to the Nigerian Tribune newspaper Monday, Bello died as a result of excessive bleeding. She passed away at about 7:15 a.m. (0715 GMT)
Bello gave birth to six babies, three males and three females, in the hospital Read the rest of this entry »

Could our mother’s diet at the time we are conceived set the course for our future health? This intriguing question is at the heart of a new study based on an “experiment of nature” being conducted by Wellcome Trust-funded researchers. We inherit our DNA – the genetic blueprint that determines our make-up – from our parents: 50% of our DNA from our mothers and 50% from our fathers.
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“This is not a state government matter,” proclaimed
, spokesman for Alaska Gov.
.
Maybe so, but it’s all they’re talking about in The Last Frontier.
, whose son, Levi, is having a baby with Palin’s daughter,
, was arrested last week on drug charges, Alaska State Police said.
Johnston was arrested in her home in Wasilla, Alaska, on six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance, police Read the rest of this entry »

Public hospital births double risk for mother and baby, says report
February 16, 2009
WOMEN who give birth in public hospitals are twice as likely to suffer serious complications and their babies are at greater risk of death, research shows.
An analysis of more than 780,000 full-term births in Australia between 2001 and 2004 found one in 1000 babies died in private hospitals, compared with three in 1000 in public hospitals.
It also concluded Read the rest of this entry »

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Associated Press – January 11, 2009 7:54 PM ET
PARAGOULD, Ark. (AP) – A Paragould woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a minor after she took her baby out of a hospital against medical advice. According to court documents, 36-year-old Sherleen D. Waddell left Arkansas Medical Center on October Fifth with her two-month-old infant, although a doctor said the child was in critical condition. An officer went to the woman’s home and Read the rest of this entry »

A woman who checked herself into Union Memorial Hospital for abdominal pains Saturday night admitted to doctors that she had given birth to a stillborn boy, but wouldn’t tell authorities that she had left him in a trash bin behind a
church, police said.
Instead, after hospital staff notified police about 9:30 p.m., city officers went to where she had been living — St. John’s United Methodist Church in the 2600 block of St. Paul St.– and began Read the rest of this entry »

WAYNESVILLE — The arrest of Stephanie Bowser on drug trafficking charges sounds like the plot of the television series, “Weeds.”
Bowser was arrested on Friday, Feb. 13, at her Chapman Street home in Waynesville. She faces charges of having her 14-year-old son help cultivate marijuana, and providing a 16-year-old boy with prescription medication to be sold at the Warren County Career Center in Lebanon.
Bowser, 38, also is alleged to have Read the rest of this entry »

Sherry L Johnston, 42, the mother of Miss Palin’s self confessed “redneck”
fiance Levi Johnston, was arrested by Alaskan police on Friday at her home.
The revelation comes as a blow to Mrs Palin, whose recent vice-presidential
campaign was strongly based on her conservative Christian views.
Mrs Johnston was caught in an “undercover narcotics investigation”,
but the sting did not only uncover evidence of drug possession – but also Read the rest of this entry »