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Smoking during pregnancy is a matter of serious concern, says Clara Bradizza, PhD, senior research scientist at RIA. "It's well-documented that smoking cigarettes while pregnant leads to a range of negative health effects on fetuses, including increased risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery, and greater rates of asthma and learning disabilities," she says. The research involved 70 pregnant women who wanted to quit smoking and reported smoking in response to stress, anger and anxiety. "These women use smoking as a way to manage their negative feelings," Bradizza says. "Many experience poverty, insecure housing and unemployment, along with the stress of pregnancy, which increases negative emotions. All these factors make it more difficult to quit." Half of the women took part in a smoking cessation program consisting of emotion regulation treatment (ERT) combined with standard cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), while the others received...

Now, the first prospective cohort examining the relationship between HPV vaccination and fertility, led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher, has found that the vaccine can actually improve chances of conception in some women. The study, published in the journal  Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology , shows little overall association between HPV vaccination and the chances of conceiving for men and women -- except among women with a history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). STIs are associated with lower fertility, but vaccinated women with an STI history had about the same chance of becoming pregnant as unvaccinated women who had never had an STI. "Our study found no adverse effects of HPV vaccination on fertility and indicated that it may, in fact, protect fertility among individuals who have had other STIs," says BUSPH doctoral student Kathryn McInerney, the study's lead author. "Our study should reassure those who a...

Oil dispersants are a blend of chemical compounds used to break down oil slicks into smaller drops of oil, making them easily degraded by natural processes or diluted by large volumes of water. The study estimated the likelihood of exposure to dispersants, based on the types of jobs the workers did and where. Individuals who handled dispersants, worked near where dispersants were being applied, or had contact with dispersant equipment reported the symptoms they experienced during oil spill cleanup as part of the Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) STUDY. The research team found that workers exposed to dispersants were more likely to experience certain symptoms -- cough, wheeze, tightness in the chest, and burning in the eyes, nose, throat, or lungs -- than those who were not exposed to dispersants. Dale Sandler, Ph.D., the lead GuLF STUDY r esearcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of NIH, said the findings only apply to workers involved in ...

Researchers accumulate drone influence information at an athletics facility on Virginia Tech's Blacksburg campus underneath the path of the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership and the Institute for Essential Know-how and Utilized Science. Credit score: Virginia Tech New Virginia Tech analysis suggests there's large variation within the danger that unmanned plane pose to individuals on the bottom. Most of the most promising functions for these plane -- together with package deal supply, public security, and visitors administration -- entail flights over individuals and lift the chance, nevertheless unlikely, of an influence between the plane and a human. So earlier than unmanned plane techniques -- often known as UAS or drones -- might be utilized effect...

Rutgers researchers from the School of Public Health reported that 83 percent of the samples collected from the U.S. in New Jersey and 78 percent collected from India had at least 1.0 microgram of lead per gram of cosmetic powder. Meanwhile, 19 percent of the samples collected in New Jersey and 43 percent of the samples collected from India exceeded the 20 microgram of lead per gram of cosmetic powder limit imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. "There is no safe level of lead," said Derek Shendell, associate professor of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health and co-author of the study. "That's why we believe sindoor powder shouldn't be sold or brought into the United States unless it is lead free." Lead is a highly toxic poison associated with lower IQ, behavioral problems and growth delays in children who often are exposed hand to mouth. At least 4 million households in the United States have children livin...

That is Dr. James Hudson of The College of Queensland. Credit score: The College of Queensland Researchers have recognized the method that shuts down the human coronary heart's potential to heal itself, and are actually trying to find a drug to reverse it. College of Queensland's Dr. James Hudson and Murdoch Kids's Analysis Institute researcher Dr. Enzo Porrello have proven a metabolic pathway governs the lack of the guts's proliferative capability. "A change in a new child's metabolism means this potential to regenerate coronary heart tissue disappears, normally inside every week," Dr. Hudson stated. "Now we now have recognized the method that causes this to happen, we imagine there might be a possibility to reactivate regeneration in...