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Showing posts with label prenatal programming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prenatal programming. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 March 2010

Stress During Pregnancy Linked to Higher Risk for Asthma in Offspring

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The way that our physiology switches genes on or off in response to environmental circumstances/triggers/cues, a process now studied as ...
Thursday, 25 February 2010

Dirty tricks of the egg and sperm race - 24 February 2010 - New Scientist

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The title of this article about gene expression from New Scientist is misleading. Not so much 'dirty tricks' but fascinating negoti...
Saturday, 6 February 2010

Ancient remains put teeth into Barker hypothesis from PhysOrg

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"The Barker hypothesis is named after epidemiologist David Barker, who during the 1980s began studying links between early infant healt...
Friday, 8 January 2010

Aging well starts in womb, as mom's choices affect whole life - USATODAY.com

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During the crucial "window of opportunity" before birth and during infancy, environmental cues help "program" a person...
Thursday, 7 January 2010

How Childhood Trauma Can Cause Adult Obesity - Yahoo! News

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"Early adverse experience can disrupt the body's metabolic systems," says Shonkoff. "One of the cornerstones of biology i...
Sunday, 3 January 2010

EWG Minority Cord Blood Report Executive Summary | Environmental Working Group

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A two-year study involving five independent research laboratories in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands has found up to 232 toxic...
Friday, 13 November 2009

BBC NEWS | Health | Music 'nurtures' premature babies

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Music 'nurtures' premature babies Music may help block pain Hospitals that play music to premature babies help them grow and thri...

Early life stress has effects at the molecular level

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More evidence of the need to keep mothers and newborn babies together and ensure skin to skin uninterrupted time at birth. Maternity service...
Friday, 9 October 2009

Bioethics for clinicians: 12. Ethical dilemmas that arise in the care of pregnant women: rethinking

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Bioethics for clinicians: 12. Ethical dilemmas that arise in the care of pregnant women: rethinking "maternal?fetal conflicts" T...