Hourglass Women Smarter (-???); Make Smarter Babies

Damn You SALMA HAYEK! -Damn Youuuuuu!!!! !-Yet Another reason to love hot women!! (++ Note to self: Must become scientist who gets paid to study female hotness.)

According to a study by the University of Pittsburgh and UC Santa Barbara on about 16,000 women

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Posted by Will on 12/30/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Excessive Ultrasound May Harm Embryonic Neurons

No more 'scan-your-noggin' booth at the kegger anymore, boys and girls! It'll rot your brains worse than TV!

Dr. Pasko Rakic and his colleagues from the Neurobiology department of the Yale School of medicine have shown that ultrasound use impedes some brain development in baby mice.

They are therefore recommending that though the distances are greater in humans, ultrasound for human babies

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Posted by Will on 08/10/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Pacifiers at Night Reduce SIDS

A recent study authored by Dr. De-Kun Li of Kaiser Permanente and funded by the NIH and others, found that use of pacifiers at night for babies reduced the incidence of SIDS by up to 90%.

In the past, pacifier use has been found to reduce the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in studies at least as old as

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Posted by Will on 01/22/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Ugly Kids Neglected More

Damn! That explains all the accidental head injuries and extended games of hide-and-go-seek at the mall when I was 3. Mom still says she loves us all the same.

A study by the University of Alberta in Canada shows that healthy but ugly children were neglected much more than their attractive counterparts.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 9/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |