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Folic acid lowers child-cancer risks Rates of two rare childhood cancers declined after the Us began requiring grain products to be fortified with the B vitamins and folic acid, a new study reported in the journal Pediatrics. Exercise can lower risk of psoriasis Results from a large U.S. study suggest women who regularly exercise vigorously, including runners and aerobics buffs, may be less likely to get psoriasis than less-active women. Researchers have known that people who are overweight or smokers have a higher risk of the chronic skin disease, which is characterised by itchy and painful plaques. Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition. The researchers, based in Haifa, Israel, said there were still many years of testing and refining ahead. But the results meant they might eventually be able to reprogram patients’ cells to repair their own damaged hearts. Drug abuse needs treatment, not jail The USA sees drug abuse as a public health problem as much as a crime issue and is seeking to learn from countries in Europe and elsewhere about how to treat addiction as a disease, Barack Obama’s drugs policy chief has said. Gil Kerlikowske, the US President’s director of national drug control policy, said the US is taking a more balanced approach to substance abusers rather than fighting a "war on drugs" centred mainly on law enforcement. Many babies with development delays may go untreated About one out of every three infants who scores well below average on a test of developmental skills — and is therefore considered at a high risk of having delays — does not get referred to early intervention services, according to a new study. "It’s a problem, because I think that early intervention services can really make a difference in kids who are at risk for developmental delay," said Dr Joanne Cox, a paediatrics professor at Children’s Hospital, Boston, who was not involved in the research. — Reuters
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FOR at least some
moms-to-be, it is extra body fat — and not blood sugar levels —
that may be the key in their risk of having a big baby, a recent study
suggests. Researchers found that among 472 pregnant women they
followed, those who were heavy before pregnancy or gained too many
pregnancy kilos were more likely to have a
"large-for-gestational-age" baby.