It might be advisable to avoid caffeine all together when you’re expecting, according to a spate of recent studies - meaning that even moderate coffee intake or a simple bar of chocolate could soon be off the menu for mums-to-be.
Two new studies published in February and March this year highlight the potentially harmful impact of caffeine consumption in pregnancy. The first, conducted by the University of Rochester Medical Center, found that caffeine consumed during pregnancy can change important brain pathways that could lead to behavioural problems such as ADHD later in life.
The second study, by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and published in JAMA Open Network on 25 March 2021, found that women who drank as little as half a cup of coffee per day on average gave birth to smaller babies than pregnant women who did not consume caffeinated beverages.
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PHILADELPHIA Humans have a uniquely high density of sweat glands embedded in their skin 10 times the density of chimpanzees and macaques. Now, researchers at Penn Medicine have discovered how this distinctive, hyper-cooling trait evolved in the human genome. In a study published today in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, researchers showed that the higher density of sweat glands in humans is due, to a great extent, to accumulated changes in a regulatory region of DNA called an enhancer region that drives the expression of a sweat gland-building gene, explaining why humans are the sweatiest of the Great Apes.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, many families found themselves suddenly isolated together at home. A year later, new research has linked this period with a variety of large, detrimental effects on individuals and families well-being and functioning.
The study led by Penn State researchers found that in the first months of the pandemic, parents reported that their children were experiencing much higher levels of internalizing problems like depression and anxiety, and externalizing problems such as disruptive and aggressive behavior, than before the pandemic. Parents also reported that they themselves were experiencing much higher levels of depression and lower levels of coparenting quality with their partners.
Three health facilities should remain with Sindh, says JPMC board member
Karachi
April 10, 2021
Mushtaq Chhapra, one of the four members of the board of governors (BoG) formed by the federal government to oversee the affairs of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), has hinted at quitting the BoG if the tug of war between the federal and provincial governments over the control of the JPMC and two other hospitals of Karachi continues.
He has also stated that two other members of the board may also quit if the conflict is not resolved. Talking to The News on Friday, Chhapra, a philanthropist, said he and two other members of the board believed that three health facilities of Karachi the JPMC, the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) should remain in the provincial control. “We are not political people and we only joined the board of governors constituted by the national health services ministry for i
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