Mediclinic Baby App Review: Your Pregnancy Guide

Its only normal to feel anxious during this time about whats going on with your baby, your body, and what to expect. If this is your first child then the questions will be never-ending. This app offers a great, practical, and simple way to get information about your pregnancy. The app will take you through pregnancy week-by-week so you know whats going on with Baby during that specific time. Its so much more than just a “whats going on with baby” app though; think of this as an entire pregnancy guide.
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(Nicole Ireland/CBC) Northern Ontario university bar 1st in Canada to offer pregnancy tests A Thunder Bay bar is now first in Canada to offer pregnancy tests in its women’swashroom. The dispenser installed at The Outpost at Lakehead University was provided by the group Healthy Brains for Children with the hope of preventing future cases of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder [FASD]. Charmaine Romaniuk, vice-president of the LakeheadUniversity Student Union said although the idea seemed odd at first, it actually fits in with other health promotion initiatives on campus, including providing condoms. She hopes the vending machine will be a more effective prevention tool than the posters traditionally displayed in bar washrooms warning of the dangers of drinking while pregnant. “Posters are great. You could see them, you can understand the message, you’d be like, ‘oh I don’t want to drink while I’m pregnant, Romaniuksaid. But the dispenser provides immediate action, so you don’t have to go to a pharmacy and wait until the next day. You could …[test] right now if you wondered.” Makes sense The shiny pink and white vending machinetook third-year Bachelor of Arts and Education student Liberty Wilson by surprise when she went into the campus bar’s washroomon Monday.
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How To Stop Snoring

Are you feeling anxious or depressed? Have you taken medication that disrupted your sleep? Do you or could you have sleep apnea? Or do you naturally require a little bit more sleep? Although sleep is crucial for optimal health, some research suggests that sleeping too much can also have negative consequences. Learn more about sleep.
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Snoring: A New Tip-Off To Stroke and Heart Disease

If so, read up. It turns out that what seems like an annoyance is actually an alarm bell. New research conducted by otolaryngologists at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroitfinds that snoring is a bigger risk factor for stroke and heart attack than smoking, being overweight, or high cholesterol. According to research by Robert Deeb, MD and Karen Yaremchuk, MD, snoring can reveal damage to the carotid arteries the arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to the brain. The study which has been submitted to the journal The Laryngoscope, will be presentedin Scottsdale, Arizona on Friday at the 2013 Combined Sections Meeting of the Triological Society . The researchers looked at the carotid arteries in snorers and found increased thickening of the artery walls, indicating damage already setting in. The researchers suggested that the damage could be due to the trauma and inflammation caused by the vibrations of snoring.
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Diabetes Drug May Reverse Alzheimer’s Memory Loss

In the study, liraglutide was injected into mice that had late stage Alzheimers disease. During the two-month trial period, the mice performed significantly better on object recognition tests than before, and their brains showed a 30 percent reduction in the build-up of toxic plaques. According to an article on Medical News Today, Professor Christian Holscher, of the University of Lancaster and lead study author said that liraglutide activates receptors on neurons that set a growth-factor type of signaling cascade in motion. Oxidative stress is reduced and growth and replacement of neurons is improved.” The study findings from the mouse model showed that the key biomarkers of Alzheimers disease were significantly reduced. The markers affected were memory impairments, loss of synaptic activity, aggregation of beta-amyloid to form plaques in the brain, and chronic inflammation in the brain. Liragultide is now being tested in a major clinical trial the will be headed by Dr. Paul Edison of Imperial College London.
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Protein Known To Predict Diabetes Risk May Be Linked With Lifestyle Factors

Also on HuffPost: Loading Slideshow Eat Cheese Despite cheese’s less-than-healthy reputation, a recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that cheese-eaters actually have a 12 percent lower risk of the disease than their non cheese-eating counterparts. Plus, people who ate more cheese, fermented milk and yogurt in the study were also more likely to have a decreased diabetes risk than people who ate less of these foods, noted the researchers, who came from Oxford University and Imperial College London. The people who ate the most cheese in the study consumed more than 56 grams of it per day, while those who ate the least cheese in the study had fewer than 11 grams a day, the UK’s NHS Choices reported. Go Nuts Researchers from the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center found that people who regularly eat tree nuts (we’re talking pistachios, walnuts, almonds and cashews) have a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes, as well as heart disease and metabolic syndrome. Those researchers found that nut consumption is linked with lower levels of an inflammation marker called C-reactive protein (which is associated with heart disease and other chronic conditions) and higher levels of the “good” kind of cholesterol. In addition, people who regularly ate the tree nuts had lower body mass indexes (BMI, a ratio of height to weight) than people who didn’t regularly eat nuts, the Journal of the American College of Nutrition study said. Take A Walk Taking a few moments for a walk each day is enough to lower the risk of diabetes in high-risk people who don’t regularly exercise, according to research in the journal Diabetes Care.
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Diabetes increased risk for poor outcomes after PCI for STEMI

4.1%; P=.03). Patients in the diabetes group also were more likely to experience definite or probable stent thrombosis within 30 days of implantation (4.3% vs. 0.8%; P=.03). Primary PCI demonstrated efficacy in restoring coronary flow in both the diabetes and nondiabetes groups.
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Financial Incentives Improve Exercise Commitment And Effort: Study

Conducted at Toronto Rehabilitation Institutes Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Program, the study was designed to help understand the conditions that might increase cardiac rehab adherence for patients who have had a cardiovascular event or are at risk of cardiovascular disease. Our research shows that people who participate in cardiac rehab programs after experiencing a major heart event cut their risk of dying from another cardiac event by as a much as 50 per cent, said Dr. Paul Oh, medical director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Program and a scientist at Toronto Rehab. One of our concerns is there are people who need cardiac rehab, but are not receiving it or sticking with the program over the long term. The financial incentives model gives us an additional strategy to help more people fully engage with the life-saving care we provide,” added Dr. Oh.
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How much sex is considered exercise?

According to WebMD , 30 minutes of sex can burn in the neighborhood of 85 to 100 calories; if you feel like you have a pretty vigorous sex life, you’re probably on the higher end of that statistic. This got me thinking. While it appears that we probably shouldn’t be giving up our gym memberships in the name of sex anytime soon, there are ways we can optimize our sexercise. Here are some ideas: Sex before breakfast. Having sex in the morning is a great idea for several reasons. A man’s testosterone levels are the highest between 7 and 8 a.m., for one. Also, if you make time for a half-hour morning session, you can roll out of bed and right into your morning workout and you’re already warmed up!
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NATO plans major east European exercise, reassures Russia

Exercise “Steadfast Jazz” in Latvia and Poland from November 2-9 shows the 28-nation alliance refocusing on its core task of defending its own territory as it winds down its long combat mission in Afghanistan. “For the past 10 to 12 years we have become incredibly proficient at the counter-insurgency mission that we have been fighting in Afghanistan,” NATO’s military commander, U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, told a news conference. If NATO were ever called on to defend an alliance member, “we have to be prepared for the more high end of military operations,” he said, speaking at a NATO headquarters at Brunssum in the Netherlands on Wednesday. The exercise calls for NATO forces to oust an invader. Breedlove denied it was aimed at repelling a hypothetical Russian invasion.
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