Why self-test blood glucose levels?
Testing your blood sugar enables you to see how certain foods, activities, and situations may impact your blood glucose levels. It can also help you and your diabetes care team evaluate how effective, or ineffective, a new treatment routine or change in blood sugar medication is. For people who take insulin, [...]
According to a new warning released from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, mercury that is used in dental fillings poses a major health risk.
Mercury is commonly used in amalgam dental fillings and poses the greatest health risk to children, as well as pregnant mothers and their fetus.
The FDA, following pressure from many health groups, [...]
The University of Michigan researchers estimated that based on their findings, published on Wednesday, the lives of 200 of the roughly 370 fetuses killed yearly in US vehicle crashes would be spared if all pregnant women wore seat belts.
Seat belts absolutely protect the fetus - and not wearing a belt is a big problem, Dr [...]
Researchers found that among 341 3-year-olds, those whose mothers ate more than two servings of fish per week during pregnancy generally performed better on tests of verbal, visual and motor development.
On the other hand, tests scores were lower among preschoolers whose mothers had relatively high mercury levels in their blood during pregnancy.
And mothers who regularly [...]
They suggest that breast-fed infants with this condition may need vitamin D supplements.
Soft skull bones, also known as craniotabes, in normal newborns is usually regarded as no cause for alarm, but Dr Tohru Yorifuji at Kyoto University Hospital and colleagues dispute this in their report in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. They point [...]
The British study, which involved 19,000 babies born between 2000 and 2002, found that at nine months, babies whose mothers had stopped smoking while pregnant scored higher for positive moods, the ability to cope with change and had more regular sleeping and feeding patterns.
Writing in the British Medical Journal yesterday, researchers from the University of [...]
