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July 3rd, 2008

Guess Who’s Had A Baby or Two…

If you guessed the Jolie-Pitt clan, you’re wrong. According to her OB, there’s still a few weeks to go.
No, the babies I’m talking about are the ones that have been born to ‘a 70 year old grandmother’ and ‘a transgender man’. Talk about pushing the limits.
Can you imagine having a baby twins at the age […]

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May 21st, 2008

Pregnant? You Might Want to Ditch the Cell Phone.

New research indicates that pregnant women using mobile phones possibly have an increased risk of giving birth to children with behavioural problems.
The study, based on questioning the mothers of over 13,000 children born in the late 1990s, found that…
“… mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely to have children with behavioural […]

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April 13th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar.

Lots of interesting news this week.
Let’s talk transplants…
US doctors at John Hopkins Hospital recently performed what is believed to be the world’s first simulanteous six-way kidney transplant. Can you imagine that? Twelve people were operated on at the same time, with kidneys removed from six people and transplanted into six other people.
Why all at once? […]

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