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Kourtney and Kim Kardashian Joke Penelope, North Are 'Much Cooler' Than Them

07.12.2020 Kids Health

Budding fashionistas! Kourtney Kardashian’s 8-year-old daughter, Penelope, and Kim Kardashian’s 7-year-old daughter, North, threw together hilarious outfits on Sunday, December 6. See Kourtney Kardashian Daughter Penelope’s Cutest Pics “So much cooler than us @kimkardashian,” the Poosh creator, 41, captioned an Instagram photo of the little ones standing on a staircase in matching looks. The cousins rocked baseball caps, sunglasses, puffy […]

Why Kailyn Lowry Wants More Kids 'Sooner' Than Later After 4th Son

04.09.2020 Kids Health

Not done yet! Kailyn Lowry exclusively told Us Weekly about her plans to expand her family. Every Time Kailyn Lowry Clapped Back at Mom-Shamers “I think I need help because I don’t know why I would be thinking about another baby so soon after birth,” the Teen Mom 2 star, 28, revealed while promoting season 10 of the MTV show. […]

No Kissing the Baby, Please: Why Smooching Infants Is More Dangerous Than You Think

28.01.2020 Kids Health

A storm is raging on the parenting site Mom Confessions over a Jan. 20 post by an angry mother on the brink of divorce: “This is an open letter to my MIL who I am absolutely furious with and her selfish, narcissistic attitude…how hard is it to understand the words that I speak when I say Don’t kiss the baby, […]

Breaking the dogma: Key cell death regulator has more than one way to get the job done

24.12.2019 Health Problems

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have discovered a new way that the molecule RIPK1 leads to cell death in infected, damaged or unwanted cells showing that more than one mechanism can trigger the process. The findings appeared online today in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. “Our findings break the existing dogma that RIPK1 kinase activity is required for […]

Gigi Hadid Would 'Rather Die' Than Go to the Gym

10.12.2019 Kids Health

Gigi Hadid has arguably one of the most bangin’ bods in the world. While she’s always been vocal about her love of boxing, she told Condé Nast Traveller the one workout she really hates. How Gigi and Bella Hadid Get Their Amazing Bikini Bodies — Their Fitness and Diet Tips When asked how she stays fit while she travels, she […]

The reason your sun sign meaning is more important than you thought

10.12.2019 Kids Health

Even folks who can’t tell their moon signs from their rising signs usually know a thing or two about their sun signs. Masquerading in popular culture as horoscopes or “star signs,” sun signs became a thing when astrology went mainstream in the 1930s (via Smithsonian). Then, an astrologer named R.H. Naylor became a regular columnist in a British newspaper after he […]

Targeted therapy better for repeat kidney cancer patients than FDA-approved counterpart

04.12.2019 Health Problems

Kidney cancer patients who had already tried two or three different treatments had improved chances of preventing cancer progression with an experimental drug called tivozanib compared to an alternative approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a City of Hope-led study. “This agent has shown in clinical trials to be effective in delaying cancer growth beyond established […]

More polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus

25.11.2019 Health Problems

Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild. In a report late last week, the World Health Organization and partners noted nine new polio cases caused by the vaccine in Nigeria, Congo, Central […]

Humans more unique than expected when it comes to digesting fatty meals

12.09.2019 Health Problems

People have very individualized inflammatory responses to eating a high-fat meal. These were the somewhat unexpected results of a study recently published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry by researchers at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and their University of California-Davis colleagues. “We looked at the inflammatory reactions of 20 volunteers at 0, 3 and 6 hours after eating a […]

Rising blood pressure puts women at greater stroke risk than men

13.08.2019 Health Problems

As the severity of high blood pressure rises, the risk of stroke rises almost twice as quickly in women compared with men, according to a new study. Published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, the research raises the question of whether sex-specific guidelines may be needed for controlling high blood pressure. High blood pressure is the most […]

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