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Pfizer and Keas Partner to Help Consumers Take a More Active Role in Their Health and Wellness

Pfizer and Keas announced today they have entered into an alliance to collaborate on the Keas platform to enable Health and Wellness experts to author, sell and distribute personalized online Care Plans directly to patients.

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analytica InnovationArea: Start-ups in the Spotlight

23-26 March 2010, Munich, Germany. Following its successful premiere in 2008, analytica, the leading trade fair for industrial analysis, laboratory technology and biotechnology, will continue its initiative for new companies again in 2010.

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Feeding tops that are fabulous

Stop what you’re doing. I just found a breastfeeding top with FLUTTER SLEEVES . Oh so stylish, not too expensive and with hidden slits for easy feeds. In a word, awesome.

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Duggars need to invest in the Pill

So this week in People , the Duggars are back and talking about the ‘emotional’ birth of their 19th child (as I type this, my heart stops for a minute…NINETEENTH CHILD! O.M.G.). Born at just 25 weeks, this latest addition, Josie, was so premature she now is suffering from a…

Lancet vs. Wakefield

I love the Lancet. I have my own subscription, and it isn’t cheap. However, the Lancet took a cheap shot last week, when it retracted a paper on autism by Wakefield et al. immediately following a ruling by the UK’s General Medical Counsel. The Lancet has been embroiled in controversy…

Measles vaccine can cause encephalopathy 8-9 days post injection/ DHHS

I was hoping to avoid joining the Andrew Wakefield/Lancet fray, but so many inaccurate statements have been published in the last few days that I had to jump in. There is clearcut evidence for a syndrome of brain injury (and sometimes death) due to measles vaccine (and not due to…

Older mothers’ kids have higher autism risk, study finds

A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there’s a link between autism and the mother’s age at conception. The link between the parents’ age and children’s health is not entirely new. Prior studies have indicated that babies born to older women have…

Birth planning leads to surprising increase in premature births

The rising trend of expectant mothers being involved in every aspect of planning their births has had an unintended consequence - a rise in pre-term deliveries. “It never would have occurred to me or anyone I knew to think you had any kind of control over when the baby would…

Most Pregnant Women Never Tested for the Most Common Birth Defect

Three out of five women who have given birth to a child with a congenital heart defect (CHD) — the number-one birth defect and leading killer of infants and newborns — were never tested for the defect during pregnancy. This is according to a survey just released by Little Hearts,…

Meatless Monday - Easy Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

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