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Pregnancy :: Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy SNAP – patches and stop

1050 pregnant women are being recruited for the most extensive trial of its kind to establish the effect of using nicotine patches during pregnancy. The ?1.3m clinical trial ? Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy (SNAP) trial ? will investigate whether nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is safe, effective and cost-effective for mums-to-be who want to give up smoking. It will also study the effect on the behaviour and development of the child.

Psychology :: Art in the shape of fashion

The study, carried out by the UGR, links fashion and other disciplines, such as painting, sculpture or architecture. It focuses on the work of the Spanish designer Jes?s del Pozo, and the “Generation of New Designers.” The researcher states that nowadays the two things that are most frequently shown are the body and underwear. The private sphere is entering the public sphere.

Pregnancy :: Genetic screening reduces ongoing pregnancy & live birth rates in over 35s

Preimplantation genetic screening did not increase but instead significantly reduced the rates of ongoing pregnancies and live births after IVF in women of advanced maternal age.

Tuberculosis :: Speaker’s TB is multi-drug-resistant, not extensively drug-resistant

Laboratory tests conducted at National Jewish Medical and Research Center indicate that patient Andrew Speaker?s tuberculosis is susceptible to some of the medications previously thought ineffective against his disease.

Hypertension :: Daily bite of dark chocolate reduces blood pressure

Daily bite of dark chocolate may reduce blood pressure in hypertensive patients. Eating about 30 calories a day of dark chocolate was associated with a lowering of blood pressure revealed in a study.

Stem Cell :: Advanced Cell Technology Applauds Inclusion of Stem Cell Provision In $152 Billion Federal Funding Measure

On June_21, 2007, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of a $152 billion Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill. An amendment to the bill would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research by changing a critical date relating to the eligibility of stem cell lines.

Cancer :: Eat cherries to keep cancer away

Cherries, the fleshy fruit may soon become an important weapon in the ongoing quest to fight cancer.

Care :: Grandchildren more likely to care for caring grandparents

Perhaps this headline isn’t surprising, but now it has scientific backing: new research at the University of Haifa found that grandchildren who, during their childhood, were taken care of by their grandparents, expressed a greater desire to take care of their grandparents as they aged than did grandchildren who were not taken care of by their grandparents.

Infertility :: Complementary therapy for infertile women may reduce chances of pregnancy

Complementary therapies in assisted reproduction may diminish the effectiveness of medical treatment for infertility in women, a scientist will tell the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France, Wednesday, July 4.

Lymphoma :: Wilmot Cancer Center Expert to Discuss Lymphoma Research

Lymphoma expert Richard I. Fisher, M.D., director of the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, will discuss the role biology plays in the future treatment of lymphomas as part of a lecture series highlighting biological and biomedical research at the University of Rochester.