Image: Shutterstock You may be able to survive without food or water for some days, but you cannot survive without oxygen for more than a few minutes. Your lungs take the oxygen from the air and expel the carbon dioxide that your body doesn’t require. We need oxygen to survive and perform everyday tasks, such
Month: October 2020
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 16 2020 E-cigarettes might not be a safer alternative to smoking during pregnancy, according to the first known study into the effects of prenatal nicotine exposure on babies. Psychologists at Durham University, UK, found that babies of mothers who smoked e-cigarettes during pregnancy displayed similar abnormal reflexes to infants whose
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 15 2020 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted a 4D Nucleome award to support research by a group of scientists at Gladstone Institutes led by Benoit Bruneau, PhD, and Katie Pollard, PhD. This prestigious award will provide more than $3.6 million over 5 years to study how human
Image: Shutterstock IN THIS ARTICLE Sucking hands or fingers is a normal behavior in babies. Sometimes, you may notice babies sucking fists, or even trying to mouth their feet. Hand sucking can be a way of communicating or a self-soothing strategy for babies. Most babies stop this habit on their own between two and four
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 16 2020 A patient with end-stage and rapidly progressing soft-tissue cancer whose tumor did not respond to standard treatment, had a “rapid and complete response” to a novel combination of immunotherapy, according to new research published by a team of scientists from John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical
#diyhaircut #diybangs #staysafestayhome Hello Everyone, With most of us at home, I wanted to show you an easy way to cut long bangs and frame your hair around your face by yourself. #staysafestayhome YouTube disabled my comments because I used to show my kids years ago. I don’t show any kiddos and took all of
DRAWING TRICKS Drawing is not only for the professional artists. It’s for every person who has an art lover deep down in his soul. And with these amazing hacks you can express yourself easily. Don’t be shy give it a try! These tricks will also come in handy if you want to teach your kids
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 15 2020 Understanding sounds in language is a critical building block for child literacy, yet this skill is often overlooked. Researchers from Michigan State University have developed a new software tool to assess children’s phonological awareness — or, how they process the sound structure of words. The ATLAS, or Access
Although I never managed to master traditional sitting meditation, walking meditation has done amazing things for my mental health. Like everyone, COVID-19 turned our worlds upside down last March. My husband, Brent, started working remotely from the home office and the kids tackled online school. Quite suddenly, the house felt crowded and noisy. As a
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 15 2020 Researchers have used insight from a comprehensive genomic analysis of neuroblastoma to learn about the process driving one of the most common childhood solid tumors. The findings revealed possible approaches for developing precision medicines to improve patient outcomes. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists led the study, which
In this excerpt from the book “Silence is a Scary Sound,” Clint Edwards shares hilarious stories and advice about the terrible twos and threes. Reprinted with permission from Silence is a Scary Sound by Clint Edwards, Page Street Publishing Co. 2019. When I got married, my mother said she planned to come to my home,
While it’s hard to name anything that the pandemic hasn’t affected, one thing that is constantly on my mind is how to keep my family active despite spending more time indoors. Normally, this time of year would be spent at dance and gymnastics lessons, meeting up with friends for games and field trips, and long
At some point in late spring, I looked at my kitchen table and realized that between the crafts, laptops, leftovers (and at some point even a Tupperware of tadpoles) this space had become the centre of my family’s life. It no longer gets cleaned for potlucks or wine dates with friends—it’s become an intensely communal
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 14 2020 Regular cannabis exposure in rats during pregnancy may cause their offspring to have long-term cognitive deficiencies, asocial behavior, and anxiety later in adulthood. That’s according to a new study by neuroscientists in Washington State University’s Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience unit that provides a rare look at the effects
Image: Shutterstock IN THIS ARTICLE One of the most important and exciting milestones for parents is when their baby starts walking. Usually, before babies take the first step, they sit, crawl, rollover, and start pulling up to stand with support. Parents often look for such signs to know when their baby will take their first
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 13 2020 The Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology (SOAP),the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) aim to clearly reassure pregnant women that the article “Association Between Epidural Analgesia During
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the highly infectious severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected over 38 million people worldwide since its emergence in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China. One of the earliest measures of preventing the spread of the infection was school closures around the world. In most countries, closures were
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Oct 14 2020 Fighting clever parasites requires smart vaccines that can trigger critical immune responses. A University of Chicago-based research team has found a novel way to do that. These experts, specialists in toxoplasmosis and leaders in vaccine design, have focused on one of the most frequent parasitic infections of humans.
Image: Shutterstock IN THIS ARTICLE By the time children reach three years of age, they become more active and independent. A three-year-old child’s concentration span increases, but their constant search to explore new things and games makes them restless. No matter how many new toys and games you get them, they lose interest in them
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