Q&A: Happiest Baby Author, Dr. Harvey Karp, on Getting Your Baby to Sleep Like, Well, a Baby. Parents wonder about lots of things — when to start solid foods, how to soothe their babies, when to ditch diapers and tackle potty training. But the biggest bugaboo, speaking from personal experience, is sleep. How much do babies need? And why don’t they seem to be getting it? On Thursday night, in more than 500 movie theaters across the country, from Union Square Stadium 14 in New York City to AMC Century City 15 in Los Angeles, Dr.
Karp, author of the best-selling The Happiest Baby on the Block and its sequel, The Happiest Toddler on the Block, has a new addition to his pediatric pantheon. “It’s kind of like a house call to the nation,” says Karp. (MORE: A History of Kids and Sleep: Why They Never Get Enough) The event, sponsored by BabyCenter, SwaddleDesigns and NCM Fathom Event, will feature a live screening of Karp doling out doctorly advice, which will then be broadcast to these theaters. Since his first book came out a decade ago, he’s cobbled together an empire of products. H5N1 Bird Flu Research That Stoked Fears Is Published. The paper, by scientists at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, identified five mutations apparently necessary to make the bird flu virus spread easily among ferrets, which catch the same flus that humans do.
Only about 600 humans are known to have caught H5N1 in the last decade as it circulated in poultry and wild birds, mostly in Asia and Egypt, but more than half died of it. The paper’s publication, in the journal Science, ended an acrimonious debate over whether such results should ever be released. Critics said they could help a rogue scientist create a superweapon.
Proponents said the world needed to identify dangerous mutations so countermeasures could be designed. “There is always a risk,” Dr. Two of the five mutations are already common in the H5N1 virus in the wild, said Ron A. The Dutch team artificially introduced three mutations. Four changes were in the hemagglutinin “spike” that attaches the virus to cells. As the virus became more contagious, it lost lethality. Dr. Hypertension in Kids « Your Children's Health. Publication of flu study reveals full nature of threat - health - 21 June 2012. It's one of the most troubled scientific gestations on record. Nine months after it was first presented at a conference, research showing that just five mutations lead to a deadly H5N1 bird flu which transmits through the air between mammals has finally been published. Estimates published with it show that nature might well produce this virus too – and reveal the science we now need to head off that threat.
The research, by Ron Fouchier and colleagues at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was presented at a meeting and reported by New Scientist last September. But its publication – and that of similar work by Yoshi Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – was delayed by concerns that other labs would recreate airborne H5N1 with bioterrorist intent, or that insufficient containment might allow the virus to escape. In March, an advisory committee of the US agency which funded the work voted that these risks were outweighed by the benefits of publishing. Against Positive Thinking: Uncertainty as the Secret of Happiness. Being Lonely May Be A Hazard To Your Health. Photo by J. Bruce Baumann Being alone doesn’t just feel bad.
It’s bad for you — especially if you’re older. This is the conclusion of two recent studies that examined the link between feelings of loneliness the risk of mortality. In one study, Harvard researchers examined data from the Reduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health Registry and found that participants between the ages of 45 and 80 who lived alone had an increased chance of four-year mortality. In the second study, which was conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, scientists studied information from the Health and Retirement Study.
Participants, who were over the age of seventy-one, were queried about their feeling of loneliness. “In our typical medical model, we don’t think of subjective feelings as affecting health,” said Dr. It also underscores the importance of maintaining social ties as we get older. Blood test could show women at risk of Post Natal Depression. Researchers at Warwick Medical School have discovered a way of identifying which women are most at risk of postnatal depression (PND) by checking for specific genetic variants. The findings could lead to the development of a simple, accurate blood test which checks for the likelihood of developing the condition. Presenting the research to the International Congress of Endocrinology/European Congress of Endocrinology, Professor Dimitris Grammatopoulos, Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Warwick, said that approximately one in seven women who give birth suffer from PND, which normally starts around two weeks after childbirth.
He explained: “Current screening policies rely on the opportunistic finding of PND cases using tools such as the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Score (EPDS), but such tests cannot identify women at risk, ahead of them developing the condition.” “We believe that we have made a discovery with important clinical and social implications. As Medical Imaging Rises, Radiation Concerns Follow. Healthy Soda Alternatives: Low Sugar Drinks For Hot Summer Days. Yale University's The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity released a study last week, revealing that we already know how bad sugar sweetened beverages like soda and energy drinks are for us -- and that we're hoping to cut down. Especially in summer months, when we should up our liquid consumption to avoid dehydration, it's important to keep drink choices healthy and plentiful, but also enticing. And if New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is able to pass his proposed ban on supersized sodas, at least one city's residents will need a low-cal alternative come the dog days of August.
Liquid sources of added sugar are especially dangerous in our diet, explains HuffPost blogger Dr. HFCS is absorbed more rapidly than regular sugar, and it doesn't stimulate insulin or leptin production. But before you go for the diet soda, remember that fake sweeteners may be associated with metabolic syndrome and weight gain as well. But when plain old water won't cut it, there are other options. 5 Health Hazards Linked to Lack of Sleep. Beyond leaving you drowsy and irritable, sleepless nights can take a serious toll on your physical and mental health. "We know sleep is a critical biological function that influences a wide variety of physiological process," said Dr. Susan Redline, a sleep specialist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "Sleep deficiency can affect mood and the ability to make memories and learn, but it also affects metabolism, appetite, blood pressure, levels of inflammation in the body and perhaps even the immune response.
" Lack of sleep has been linked to stroke, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, depression, and the country's No. 1 killers: heart disease and cancer. Health Hazards Linked to Lack of Sleep A new study of more than 5,600 people found those who slept fewer than six hours a night were more likely to suffer a stroke than their well-rested counterparts. The study was presented today at the 26th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Boston, Mass. Healing Herbal Teas. Sex Quiz: Have You Ever...? Subscribe Register for free! | Log In Hi, | Member Center | Log Out We Recommend From Our Partners [what's this] Sex Quiz: Have You Ever...? Being a bit more brazen in bed can be the ultimate way to boost your sex satisfaction By Ronnie Koenig When it comes to sex, most people have a comfort zone they usually stay in.
Have You Ever . . . Had first-date sex (2) Watched porn and learned something (1) Planned a hot night of solo sex (2) Taken a sex-skills class (2) Had phone sex (2) Tried some light S&M (2) Bought and played sex games (2) Attempted at least 10 different positions (3) Had sex with the lights on (2) Got it on in the next room at a party (4) Had video-chat sex (3) Kissed a girl (3) Gotten busy in a parked car (3) Gone for a simultaneous O (3) Worn edible panties (1) Had sex during your period (2) Done it in your workplace (5) Used food (e.g., honey, whipped cream) (1) Incorporated toys (2) Tried anal sex (4) Played dress-up (e.g., wearing your stilettos to bed) (2) Read the Kama Sutra (1) Role-played (2)
The Origins of Sex: How the First Sexual Revolution Shaped Modern Society. By Maria Popova Anatomy of the osmotic balance between public and private, with a side of morality and law. It must be the season for fascinating books on the history of sex. After last month’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, here comes The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (public library) by Oxford University historian Faramerz Dabhoiwala — a formidably researched, absorbing, eloquent account of how, contrary to the modern mythology of the 1960s, today’s permissive sexual behavior first developed, seemingly suddenly, some three hundred years earlier, in 17th-century Western Europe.
What emerges is a new lens for understanding the Enlightenment as a cultural phenomenon, by connecting this critical sexual transformation to the intellectual, political, and social forces that shaped the period. The history of sex is usually treated as part of the history of private life, or of bodily experience. Thanks, Kirstin Donating = Loving. Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans. 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch) 3D Human Ear. A Journey Through the Human Eye: How We See. How the Body Works : The Sensory Cortex and Touch. SMELLING AND TASTING. Women with Severe Endometriosis May Be More Attractive. Observing that women with the most severe form of endometriosis happen to be unusually attractive, researchers in Italy speculate that the qualities that led to the women's good looks also predisposed them to the painful gynecological condition.
In the study, independent observers rated 31 percent of women with severe endometriosis as attractive or very attractive, while just 8 percent of women with milder endometriosis, and 9 percent of women without the condition were rated that highly. "Several researchers believe that a general phenotype exists which is associated with the disease," said study researcher Dr.
Paolo Vercellini, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Universita degli Studi in Milan. It may be that a more feminine body type is the result of the same physical characteristics that predispose women to develop severe endometriosis, Vercellini said. The study was published online Sept. 17 in the journal Fertility and Sterility.
A more feminine silhouette What the findings mean. Brown Rice for Weight Loss. Brown Rice for Weight Loss Study 1 Replacing white rice with brown rice can have a significant impact on weight loss efforts. Whole-grain foods like brown rice have a low glycemic index, and according to a 2006 study, low glycemic index foods are most effective for weight loss. The study suggested that dietary glycemic load, and not only just overall calorie intake impacts weight loss and blood glucose levels after eating. The researchers found that moderate reductions in glycemic load seem to boost the rate of body fat reduction.
Brown Rice for Weight Loss Study 2 In another study to determine the blood glucose response after eating a meal of ten healthy and nine type 2 diabetes participants to brown rice in comparison to white rice, the total sugar released in vitro was 23.7 percent lesser in brown rice compared to white rice, thus decreasing the risk of weight gain. Brown Rice for Weight Loss Study 3 15 Ways To Spice Up Your Brown Rice Infographic.