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As long as you use a bedroom fan, your baby’s risk of SIDS
decreases considerably, according to a new study published in October 6 issue
of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.
No one could tell for sure what the cause of SIDS is.
However, based on recent studies, the American Academy
of Pediatrics has some recommendations in order to reduce SIDS risks. They
include avoiding cigarettes during pregnancy, breastfeeding, putting the baby
to sleep on his back and avoiding use of soft bedding.
According to a new study made by researchers at the...
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Over 45 million Americans – including over 8 million
children - lack health insurance, while some of the people having insurance struggle
to cope with soaring medical coasts. This is the picture of the US before the
presidential election in November. Given the circumstances, presidential
candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are playing their last card, namely
health care, hoping their plans would bring them people’s support and win the
election.
Until now, the balance appears to favor Obama’s plan that
wants to create a government-operated insurance program, which would...
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Tuesday, a
federal grand jury in Knoxville
indicted David Kernell of Knoxville, Tennessee,
for having accessed Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account without authorization.
The young man, aged 20, is the son of Mike Kernell, a
Democratic lawmaker of the aforementioned state and the chairman of Tennessee's
House Government Operations Committee.
A statement made by the Justice Department informed that
Kernell had been scheduled to be arraigned before United States Magistrate
Judge C. Clifford Shirley on Wednesday. During the hearing, the man pleaded not
guilty.
David Kernell is an...
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Space has no frontiers for people with money. Richard
Garriott, 47, a
computer game developer from Austin, Texas,
will be the sixth tourist in space, as part of a joint venture between Russia's
Federal Space Agency and the U.S.
firm Space Adventures. Garriott says that the whole "fun" will cost
him $30 million. The shuttle, a Russian Soyuz, will be launched October 12 from
the Central Asian spaceport of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The previous Soyuzes, one in October of 2007 and one in
April, landed safely, but not before giving the creeps to the passengers....
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European researchers made a huge step in stem cell research
by converting cells from human testicular tissue into stem cells that were further
able to grow into muscle, nerve cells, and other kinds of tissue. The new study
was published online Oct. 8 in the journal Nature.
Stem cell research has been a subject of controversy from
the very beginning as it uses human embryos in order to create stem cells. Critics
of embryonic research include Catholic
Church, US
President George W. Bush and German lawmakers. Bush even banned funding of
research that uses newly...
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In 2002, Immersion filed a lawsuit against both Microsoft
and Sony, stating that the “rumble”...
This year, the Arctic sea ice level might just break the
record set only last September, since...
A powerful earthquake struck this morning off the Vancouver Island. The tremor measured 5.8 degrees...
According to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday, the number of Americans...
A 27-year-old man from Culver City, Los Angeles, was
arrested Wednesday by federal police on...
Rap mogul Marion
“Suge” Knight was arrested on Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he
was...
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has announced
that Arctic sea ice is now below the...
The Venice Film Festival has opened with the premiere of the
much talked about Coen brothers’...
“Golden Boy” jumps directly from the pool and onto the
“Saturday Night Live” stage.
Michael...
Aaron Sorkin, famous Hollywood scribe and creator of “The
West Wing,” is currently in negotiations...
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