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fitness news , Font size Women's Health Female university students in Tajikistan required to wear high heels for uniform   - Reported, May 24, 2013   Just when you thought high heels couldn’t symbolize sexism anymore than they already do, a university in Tajikistan (a country that borders Afghanistan) has instituted a formal … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Half Of All Adult Female Deaths In Rural Bangladesh Due To Non-Communicable Diseases.   - Reported, May 16, 2013   While global attention has for decades been focused on reducing maternal mortality, population-based data on other causes of death among women of reproductive age has been … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Effect of lactation counselling among Bangladeshi women.   - Reported, January 24, 2013   Vitamin A supplementation of mothers postpartum may improve infant health, not only by increasing vitamin A delivery to the infant through breast milk but also by increasing delivery of milk immune … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Jennifer Nicole Lee has the hottest body in US. - Reported, May 17, 2013   Jennifer Nicole Lee is an American fitness model, actress, motivational speaker, and author. She is known for losing 70 pounds and launching a career as a fitness guru after bearing two children. Jennifer … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Jennifer Aniston hair style is most women want - Reported, May 17, 2013   Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, film director, and producer. Aniston gained worldwide recognition in the 1990s for portraying Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends, a role which … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Stop Teens From Fighting With Exercise? - Reported, May 10, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers from Columbia University have discovered that physical activity may help decrease violent behavior among adolescent girls. The study analyzed the results of a 2008 survey … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Key to Muscle Fitness Revealed - Reported, May 13, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Researchers at Sanford-Burnham’s Diabetes and Obesity Research Center have found that genetic material (called microRNAs) link two characteristics of fit muscles: the ability to switch between slow and … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Gut Bacteria Affects How Fast Babies Grow - Reported, May 13, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) – A Norwegian study led by Merete Eggesbo suggests that the rate of early infant growth is affected by the composition of microbiota within the infants’ guts. This link was identified by … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Hungry? Don’t Go Grocery Shopping! - Reported, May 10, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) – According to new research by Brian Wansink, Ph.D., and Aner Tal, Ph.D., from Cornell University, people may be more likely to buy higher-calorie foods if they are hungry while grocery shopping. … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health GERD Nerd! 5 Acid Reflux Myths - Reported, May 14, 2013   CELEBRATION, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Millions of Americans suffer from GERD – a chronic digestive disease that happens when stomach acid flows back into your food pipe. A lot of people know the condition causes … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Abuse and Depression Linked in Women - Reported, May 10, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) – In a study led by Karen Devries from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, researchers found that women who have been abused by a partner are more likely to be depressed and … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Thoracic Endografts Removes Tumors in the Aorta - Reported, May 13, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There is a high risk of complication and death with the surgical removal of chest tumors; it is very challenging and necessitates the support of a heart-lung machine. However, … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Decision to scale back sexual health clinics incorrect: Federal Health Minister   - Reported, 13 May 2013   Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has warned the Queensland government's decision to scale back sexual health clinics in north Queensland opens the door to a potential … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Joyful, mocking and "ticklish" laughter activates different connections in the brain: A study - Reported, May 13, 2013   Scientists investigated the "laughter perception network" in volunteers whose brains were scanned while they heard three different kinds of laugh. The categories were … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Surviving a heart attack can be the start of another fight: A study   - Reported, 13 May 2013   Emotional health is the Cinderella of cardiac recovery. If you're one of the 50 per cent of people who survive a heart attack, there will be a focus on getting you back on track physically. … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Brazilian women above 50 to seek permission before assisted reproduction   - Reported, May 13, 2013   The president of the Brazilian Association of Assisted Reproduction, Adelino Amaral, who participated in drafting the rules of the CFM that, among other things, prohibits assisted … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Superbug circulates in Brazil   - Reported, May 13, 2013   The CDC reported that of Porto Alegre one of multiresistant bacteria that caused the interdiction of 15 beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital Conception is present in other establishments in the public and also … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Mexico Peru anticipates to have law against obesity   - Reported, May 13, 2013   While in Mexico no decisive action to abate the serious problem of obesity in Peru has recently passed a law to combat this epidemic by regulating advertising, food labeling and schools. De Peru thus adds to … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Warning on "Oil Pediculocide Magic" in Argentina   - Reported, May 13, 2013   The Ministry of Health of the Nation, through the National Administration of Drugs, Food and Medical Technology (ANMAT), reported that it has detected in the local market of unauthorized product "Oil Pediculocide … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Obesity detonates cases of fatty liver and cirrhosis   - Reported, May 13, 2013   If during the last decade of your life you have suffered obesity, perhaps have experienced many of its bad consequences, but almost certainly will not have thought of a, usually circumvented, even by … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Personalized iron supply for pregnant women to ensure normal iron levels in their breast milk   - Reported, January 22, 2013   Because the characteristics of all body fluids depends on patient’s health status, is it possible that disadvantaged and socially vulnerable mothers may have lower … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Relief for Rotator Cuff Tears - Reported, May 08, 2013   NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- While athletes suffer from traumatic forms of the injury, for many others age is to blame for torn rotator cuffs. It’s believed millions of Americans over 60 suffer from one. Every … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Beating “Super Germs” With Breast Milk - Reported, May 03, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) – New research found a protein complex in breast milk, which is called Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made Lethal to Tumor Cells (HAMLET), can make drug-resistant “superbugs,” like MRSA, more sensitive … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Beating Heroin Addiction - Reported, May 08, 2013    (Ivanhoe Newswire) – In a study by The Scripps Research Institute, a new heroin vaccine has been shown to successfully prevent relapse in heroin addicted mice by stopping the drug’s psychoactive breakdown products from … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Healing With Harmony: Music In Medicine - Reported, April 26, 2013   GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Whether it’s pop, hip-hop, country, or classical, we all have favorite songs that make us move or simply move us. But could music help as we battle different diseases … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Teens and Adults Respond Differently to Dangerous “Bath Salts? - Reported, April 26, 2013   The latest drug craze amongst teens is the use of "bath salts." Poison control centers received over 2,000 calls last year for patients with delusions, hallucinations and paranoia … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Zheng Tian Wan Popular Chinese medicine could be fatal - Reported, April 19, 2013   A herbal medicine used by alternative practitioners to treat migraines could be fatal. Zheng Tian Wan is unregulated but is available in the UK, and it has been linked to serious health … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Your Breath: The New Health Fingerprint - Reported, April 04, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Can people’s breath tell others important information about them? According to a new study, yes it can. Swiss researchers discovered that not only can people’s exhaled breath be made into a … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Chemotherapy: What Does It Really Do? - Reported, April 05, 2013   (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- We think we know, but do really understand chemotherapy? It's generally thought that anticancer chemotherapies works like antibiotics do, by directly killing off what's harmful. But new … [Read more...]

fitness news , Font size Women's Health Text4baby Russia Celebrates its one-year anniversary   - Reported, 19 March 2013   Text4baby Russia, a maternal and child health text-messaging service run by the Health and Development Foundation, celebrates its one-year anniversary on February 20. The program, SMSmame in Russian, … [Read more...]