Women who have polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) often have metabolic disturbances including what is called

I know what you’re probably asking yourself. What the HECK is Kangen water? Well, I had never heard of it before either, until my boss at work told me about it. She had a representative from the Kangen water company come to her house to do a demonstration and…

MyBestBirth.com is hosting celebrity birth stories – one each month. This month’s celebrity is Cindy Crawford. She talks about deciding to have a home birth, dealing with negative reactions, how it felt and what she needed to do and how prenatal yoga helped her. It’s actually pretty fascinating to…

Doctors are being advised not to induce labor for non-medical reasons prior to 39 weeks into a pregnancy under revised guidelines released yesterday by the nation’s association of obstetricians and gynecologists. The guidelines, the first since 1999, arrive amid concern about an increase in the number of such procedures…

The dirty deal, according to the lawsuit, was simple. From 2001 to 2006, Babies “R” Us told companies like Medela that they had to enforce resale-price maintenance — i.e., tell the Web retailers, who can more easily discount products since they avoid brick-and-mortar costs, to sell your products at…

Predicting whether pregnancy complications affect long-term maternal health as well as future pregnancies is at the heart of two studies conducted by researchers in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine. The first study, published in the journal Hypertension, showed that women who…

There may be a reason that children’s asthma rates are so high in urban areas. Youngsters with stressed-out parents and exposure to air pollution have a higher risk of asthma, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “The new study raises some…

Prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can adversely affect a child’s intelligence quotient or IQ, according to new research by the the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health. PAHs are chemicals released into the air from…

Laser resurfacing has become a more popular procedure as the quest to look younger and have more perfect looking skin becomes more of the society standard. However, while laser resurfacing can produce some pretty astounding results as far as totally revamping how the skin looks in terms of texture,…

A good personality is very important for everyone. How a person looks forms a main part of his personality. His outward look puts forward his first impression to each one else. Thereby by being well groomed one makes a point to tell people that you are really careful about…