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Lifelong lower socioeconomic status of fathers, as defined by early life and adulthood neighborhood income, is a newly identified risk factor for early preterm birth (at less than 34 weeks), according to a study published in Maternal and Child Health Journal.

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Keywords: Preterm Birth, Socio Economic Status, Father

A low-oxygen environment in the womb may foretell which children should be followed closely, study indicates.

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Keywords: ZIKA, fetal development, hypoxia, , zika, Hypoxia, Fetal Development, heard disease

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Keywords: Impeachment, Presidency, Trump Administration

Peanut allergies could become a thing of the past as breakthrough research from the University of South Australia develops a radically novel vaccination that’s poised to cure the potentially life threatening condition.

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Keywords: Vaccination, Vaccine, Allergic, Allergic Reaction, Peanut, Peanut Allergies, Peanut Allergy, Peanut Allergy Vaccine, Allergen, Immune System

Dec. 6, 2019 – Reductions in air pollution yielded fast and dramatic impacts on health-outcomes, as well as decreases in all-cause morbidity, according to findings in “Health Benefits of Air Pollution Reduction,” new research published in the American Thoracic Society’s journal, Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

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Keywords: Pollutant, Pulmonary, Pollution, pollution health effects, Breathing

Nurses and other healthcare professionals who care for critically ill patients and their families can now register for the 2020 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI) in Indianapolis, May 4-7. The conference offers hundreds of sessions to improve clinical practice, patient outcomes and hospitals’ bottom line, with a comprehensive program that incorporates leading evidence-based education.

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Keywords: Critical Care, Nursing, Conference, NTI, AACN CSI Academy, Advanced Practice Nurses, ICU, Indianapolis, Patient Safety, healthy work environment

Approximately half of the patients were randomly assigned whole breast radiation, delivered once per day over three to five weeks. The other half received external beam APBI, considered to be the least invasive approach to partial breast irradiation, which was given twice a day over five to eight days. The study was long-term, with a median followup of 8.6 years.

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Keywords: Breast Cancer, Radiation, APBI

Researchers have found a way to speed engineered-tissue creation using a novel bioprinter built for $2,000, they report in the journal Micromachines. Building blocks for the tissue are pre-grown spheroids of human induced-pluripotent stem cells that contain 200,000 cells per spheroid.

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Keywords: bioengineered tissue, bioprinter, human induced pluripotent stem cells