Birth Defects
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Do you believe there is a connection between US weapons and the Fallujah birth de...
by pantagruella
The Iraqi city of Fallujah, which saw some of the heaviest fighting during the Iraq war, is now experiencing an alarming increase in birth defects, including spina bifida. A recently-published medical study indicates that exposure to toxic metals from...
Do you know Someone with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
by John Alejandro Caecillius\_(+_+)
I was born with Alcohol-related Birth Defects (cleft lip and what I like to call "shaky arm disorder") but not fetal alcohol syndrome as I don't have the cognitive/ developmental disabilities and physical characteristics commonly associated with it.
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22 year old Petra Anderson was one of the victims in the horrifying Aurora massacre last Friday, but although she was shot in the head, she miraculously survived and is in recovery with very little brain damage thanks to a...15 votes2012/07/23 18:56:27
A playground meeting Most surrogacies have happy endings, and this one should have too -- with a couple welcoming a new baby into their home and Kelley enjoying her fee, plus the satisfaction that she'd helped another f...11 votes2013/03/05 15:20:06
See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-213776277 votes2013/02/19 23:58:54
RT.com: Titled ‘Metal Contamination and the Epidemic of Congenital Birth Defects in Iraqi Cities,’ the study was published by the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. It revealed a connection between mil...2 votes2012/10/15 08:26:57
According to five new Danish studies, drinking occasionally while pregnant may not be such a big deal after all.523 votes2012/06/24 19:49:05
By birth defect or disability I mean anything from autism or blindness to severe mental disability or extreme birth defect. For me itd depend on the quality of life the child would have. Lest try to keep this as civil as ...16 votes2012/08/19 06:27:55
If you found out you were pregnant with a baby that had birth defects and knew that it could potentially be cursed by this for their entire life. Should you be moral and continue the pregnancy or terminate. (I'm talking s...19 votes2011/09/24 20:09:07
By defect, I mean autism, down syndrome, blindness, deafness, and any other type of physical/mental disorder72 opinions2012/06/04 02:16:12
Babies conceived with infertility treatment methods are more likely to have certain birth defects than babies who are conceived naturally, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. ...4 opinions2012/05/05 20:04:02
(NaturalNews) A recent report put together by various professors, scholars and researchers affiliated with Earth Open Source, a collaboration group devoted to food issues, cites in great deal the multitude of peer-reviewed...87 opinions2011/07/08 23:00:01
From the Cambridge Journal of Politics... Scholars in many fields have long noted the importance of social context in the development of political ideology. Recent work suggests that political ideology also has a heritab...3 opinions2011/01/05 00:47:48
In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire , Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides a...2 opinions2012/04/13 12:11:33
On CBS' Face the Nation today, candidate Rick Santorum stood by remarks he made on Saturday regarding amniocentesis, a form of prenatal testing. Santorum said he is talking specifically about amniocentesis, an invasive ...22 opinions2012/02/19 21:45:16
Inbreeding in Britain's Pakistani community is causing a surge in birth defects, environment minister Phil Woolas warned last night. Mr Woolas described the issue as "the elephant in the room" – too sensitive for anyone to...12 opinions2011/01/10 02:40:56
A study examining the causes of a dramatic spike in birth defects in the Iraqi city of Falluja has for the first time concluded that genetic damage could have been caused by weaponry used in US assaults that took place six...39 opinions2011/01/07 04:44:43
WASHINGTON -- Industry regulators have known for years that Roundup, the world's best-selling herbicide produced by U.S. company Monsanto, causes birth defects, according to a new report released Tuesday. The report, "R...1 opinion2011/06/11 16:02:14
Don't hold liberals responsible for their opinion -- they can't help themselves. A new study has concluded that ideology is not just a social thing; it's built into the DNA, borne along by a gene called DRD4. Tagged "...854 opinions2010/10/29 12:09:18