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Chemo During Pregnancy: Possible? Health Risks & Side Effects?

Chemo in pregnancy? Yes, it can be done, study says. It’s an undeniable trend: across the world, a rising number of women today are choosing to delay pregnancy, even in the once-traditional societies of East, South and West Asia.

For the most part, the decision is a good one: it grants women the time, energy and power to build their careers and finances, and prepare for a more financially and emotionally stable family.

Many extraordinary advances in medicine, too, have made it easier for women to get pregnant and have a safe pregnancy later in life. But women of advanced maternal age still have a higher risk for difficult pregnancies and labor, miscarriage, placenta problems, and high blood pressure and diabetes, than younger women.

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Economy Class DVT Syndrome: True or False? Prevention & Risk Factors

Economy class’ DVT syndrome is nothing buy a myth . Sitting in a cramped budget seat in a plane’s economy class on a long-haul flight increases the risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Right?

Wrong, the United Kingdom’s national health provider says, finally debunking the long-held medical myth.

For quite some time now, some frequent flyers have tried to avoid economy class seats in a bid to avoid the supposed “economy-class syndrome” — in which a passenger in an economy class seat was supposedly to be more prone to developing deep vein thrombosis, or a blood clot in the deep veins of the thighs or pelvis.

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Diabetes, Pregnancy Risks, and Birth Defects

Diabetes quadruples risk of birth defects, study shows . Diabetic mothers-to-be have a high risk of giving birth to babies with birth defects like congenital heart disease and spina bifida — specifically, a risk four-fold higher than non-diabetic mothers.

That’s according to new findings from a British study that analyzed data from more than 400,000 pregnancies in northeast United Kingdom that occurred from 1996 to 2008.

For the study, researchers from the Newcastle University compared the rates of birth defects in babies born to women with diabetes (numbering 1,677) to those that women without diabetes had. Most of the diabetic women studies (78.4 percent ) had type 1 diabetes.

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HCG Weight-Loss Drugs: Unsafe & Illegal Says FDA

FDA: HCG weight-loss products are illegal and may be unsafe. They are tremendously popular—a Google search pulls up over 27 million results. They claim to be all-natural, and promise consumers using it that they will lose one to two pounds a day, while feeling “healthy and energetic” all the while.

Its sellers claim that “very small amounts” of it can “disconnect the mobile fat of people’s body” and “burn and discharge the unwanted fat through the kidneys.”

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Are Oral HIV Tests (OraQuick) Accurate? McGill University Study

Oral HIV tests: 2 % less accurate, but good enough? Recent news that a saliva-based HIV diagnostic test is only two percent less accurate than traditional blood tests has intrigued HIV activists and health experts across the world, with many hoping that this will lead to widespread self-testing that can help curb the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

In the 31 years since it was first recognized by the United States Centers for Disease and Prevention in 1981, the disease has reached epidemic proportions. It claimed about 2.1 million lives in 2007, despite improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many parts of the world.

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Astalift Skin Care – Fujifilm: Effective Anti-Aging Cream?

Fujifilm Corp’s new anti-aging skin cream is picture-perfect in more ways than one. For one, it’s a way the company turned its lemons into lemonade.

As market intelligence site Brand Channel points out, in recent years, photography and film have “shifted 180 degrees,” leaving Fujifilm’s main competitor, Eastman Kodak Co, bankrupt and “in the digital dust.”

But instead of just lying there and taking it, Fujifilm’s successfully navigated turbulent waters while we weren’t looking: It’s diversified out of film into — guess what? — skincare and healthcare products.

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