In most of the multivitamin preparation for pregnant women, iodine is not sufficient as the manufacturers claim, that deficiency put the babies at the high risk of brain development disorders.

Tests of sixty brands reveal that, which claim to have iodine as key ingredient, do not contain the amount, stated on the label and are far less than the requirements of the pregnant mothers. The high risk has been noticed in the natural multivitamins because the obtain iodine from seaweed ash instead of salt.

“If the findings are absolutely correct, its mean supplements are not up to the mark,” FDA scientists said.

Iodine can be found naturally in the table salt, dairy products and the sea food. Iodine deficiency is the major cause of thyroid goiter and metal retardation, which affects the more than two billion people all over the world.

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SAN DIEGO (Reuters Health) – Women take longer than men to get to the hospital when they experience stroke symptoms and they have worse neurological deficits, investigators reported here at the International Stroke Conference 2009, sponsored by the American Stroke Association.

“Once they arrived at the hospital, women received the same treatment — the same speed of evaluation, and the same rate of treatment — but women took longer to get to the hospital,” said Dr. Louise D. McCullough of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington.

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Teenagers, who enjoy the humiliating music with sexual lyrics, can engage into sex at relatively early age, a U.S. study founded.

In a survey, researchers interviewed 711 youngsters about their music habit and sex life. They found, listener of music with sexually explicit and aggressive expressions, are more likely to have sex, almost double, than the non listeners.

But experts objected that, only music cannot be directly related with the sexual behavior.

The team of researchers classed such music, which present sex more physical act than the loving emotion and relate it to power.

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Scientists have experienced a new treatment of mild stroke, in which patients brain are treated with laser beams to minimize the effects of disease.

Laser therapy was failed to reduce the stroke disabilities in 660 patients in the initial clinical trial, but significant improvement has been seen in the patients with mild to moderate stroke after laser treatment.

In the U.S. stroke has become the number three cause of causalities and leading cause of the major disabilities and in the experts opinion, need of new treatments is urgent.

Since now, FDA has approved only one drug for the stroke, caused by the blood clot. This clot-busting drug is commonly known as plasminogen activator that must be administered within the three hours of stroke attack, in case of survival.

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The best types of anti aging creams are always extremely helpful when it comes to looking a lot better and feeling younger.

Acai Berry Pure seems to be extremely favorable and popular in the market but it is also relevant to choose products that are good on the skin. This is most certainly the best way in which women can opt for an anti aging process. Other processes that are involved are usually more painful, costly and time consuming. This can mean skin surgery, removal of wrinkles or crows feet and often requires a painful process.

However anti aging products are easy to use primarily because the application process is simple and without any hassles whatsoever. With the discovery of acai berry anti aging benefits , ladies has been loving it for its skincare and beauty treatment effects.

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Particular exercises of the muscles, that support the movement of spin, may eliminate lower back pain, researchers suggested.

The review of previous clinical trials show that, motor control exercises are far better than the mild therapies used for the treatment of lower back pain and provide synergistic effects when added with other therapies for instance general physical work out or physical therapy.

Motor control exercise is a new technique for the management of lower back pain. In this technique patient are taught to control deeper muscles of abdomen and back that maintain spinal movements.

So far, the evidences are limited about the effectiveness of therapy, according to the researchers.

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On Wednesday, Food and Drug Administration; government medical advisors issued advices for flu vaccine to be administered in the next season. The flu reportedly kills more than 36,000 people in a year, and this vaccine administration is its preventive measure.

The panel advised only a slight change in the current vaccine pattern for 2009-2010, which shields three kinds of viruses. No changes were recommended for the A Type flu; the most fatal one. Viruses currently in circulation, two of the same A Type, will be protected with the same vaccine.

Advised changes are however for a milder virus: Type B/ Florida, which come with a strain of Type B/ Brisbane.

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Acai Berry fruit has been known for its abundant nutritional values extinct in all other fruits. Acai Berry diets and Acai Berry Detox are highly acclaimed and advocated to get the best medicinal results. Many Acai diets have been introduced and used by various people to lose weight and attain an ideal figure.

Numerous benefits found in Acai Berry Detox are strengthen cardiovascular system through its high antioxidant agents. Rich in fiber, it is helpful in easy and natural digestion process. Encapsulated in Acai Berry Detox are amino acids and Lipids for muscle regeneration and high energy productions respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the health officials of China, the death rate due to AIDS was the ever highest, last year compare to all other infections. In the history of China, this has happened in the first time.

Now the report from country’s state media has revealed that the 7,000 people get died because of AIDS in the first nine month of 2008. So this disease overlapped and pushed the other diseases like T,B and rabies to second and third places.

China’s Ministry of Health has expressed their worries that the number is increasing widely. The total number of death count due to AIDS was just 8,000 altogether till three years back.

Available data of the AIDS patients in China are unpredictable but the official reports of new cases have got lowered.

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Doctors, sometime, prescribe the chemotherapeutic drugs, without the knowledge of the limitations of the drug, a new study said.

The new released report showed that sometime, pharmacist and even oncologists don’t have the updated information of the drugs used to treat cancer.

Common physicians, most of the time, rely on the information of the compendia (the resource used by oncologists and pharmacists) for off-label information and accept them as a most authentic source very often, when the question about insurance arises about the drug.

The researchers found that in fact there are flaws in the system that used to ensure the up gradation of the knowledge of the compendia and doesn’t provide the most recent information on the regular basis.

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How many kids develop life threatening conditions with the intake of excessive breast milk? Researchers of U.K are going to launch a study to reveal it. The data of neonates, admitted in hospital due to dehydration, would be gathered all across United Kingdom.

Although, intense hypernatraemia dehydration (a condition which develops, when serum sodium concentration exceeds 145mmol/l) is very rare but it is a life threatening condition in the newborns.

Though the hospitals treat dehydrated children but there is no sufficient data that can initiate that particular study.

“People are anxious to say any word that can give make breastfeeding notorious.” neonatologist Dr Sam Richmond said.

When the children fail to take enough quantity of milk, because of any health condition, hypernatraemic dehydration may occur in the early days of their lives. This excessive sodium level may lead to gangrene, seizures, neurological disorders and some time even death if left untreated.

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A new study has revealed that the babies delivered by the mothers living in heavy traffic areas may be at a greater risk to develop asthma due to the change in the genetic structure.

Researchers found it while studying umbilical cord blood of  the children at New York City. The change was noticed in the gene called ACSL3 linked with the prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs) which may result in epigenetic changes(genetic alterations) by reprogramming the genes in key developmental periods but the disease may develop later on.

By examining the mothers exposure to PAHs during pregnancy and analyzing its effects on the samples of umbilical white blood cell from 56 children to study epigenetic alterations. A significant relation is found in ACSL3 gene of the lung and maternal PAH exposure. The children prior to age 5 were  reported with ACSL3 in the parental report of asthma symptoms.

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