Are cramped chickens crazy chickens? Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate between animal welfare groups and producers.
Iowa Researchers Ask: Are Caged Chickens Crazy?
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At the moment a newborn switches from amniotic fluid to breathing air, another profound shift occurs: nerve cells in the brain convert from hyperexcitability to a calm frame against which outside signals can be detected. "Fetal neurons need hyperexcitability for proper development, because they are moving to the right places (in the brain) and forming the right connections," said Wolfgang Lied
Source: National Institute on Aging Related MedlinePlus Topic: Parkinson's Disease
Researchers Plan Ice Cream That's Good For You
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Food chemists hope to concoct a healthy and satisfying ice cream.
Researchers have found that yoga may be more effective than standard treatment for reducing chronic low back pain in minority populations.
Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Related MedlinePlus Topic: Cardiac Arrest
Demographers across the U.S. are seeing signs that women are delaying pregnancy because of the current economic recession, the Kansas City Star reports. Although 2009 birth rates will not be available for some time, Carl Haub, senior demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, said he believes the economy is causing a drop in U.S. births this year.
H2 Blocker drugs, such as Famotidine, Cimetidine and Ranitidine, approved in the U.S. for acid reflux (heartburn), pose no significant risks for the fetus according to a large collaborative cohort study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The study published in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology provides significant reassurance for the safety of the fetus when H2 blocker dr
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