Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
2:00 pm
Although the prevalence of two other risk factors-smoking and depression -during pregnancy was higher among African-American and Hispanic women, those rates dropped considerably when the researchers adjusted for socioeconomic status, …
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
11:20 am
The next advance in treating major depression may relate to a group of brain chemicals that are involved in virtually all our brain activity, according to a study published today in Biological Psychiatry. The study is co-authored by Drs. Andrea J. Levinson and Zafiris J. Daskalakis of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
7:49 am
Your child has a 30 percent risk of obesity, an 8 percent risk of diabetes, and a 10 percent risk of clinical depression . Each of these factors can result in premature death. One in 166 children in the United States develops autism, …
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
4:03 am
… improve the babies neural development, retina development, skin and cell health, reduce the likelihood of behavioural problems and can also help prevent the mother from experiencing prenatal and postnatal depression . …
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Monday, March 1st, 2010 at
2:16 am
Efforts to prevent childhood obesity should begin far earlier than currently thought-perhaps even before birth-especially for minority children, according to a new study that tracked 1,826 women from pregnancy through their children’s first five years of life.
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