How to tell if your pet is overweight
Oakland Tribune, CA -
A. If your cat had received vaccinations before she became pregnant, it would provide better immunity for the kittens. You should keep the kittens indoors until they are old enough to be vaccinated themselves so that they are not exposed to disease. The kittens can get their first vaccinations at 6 weeks of age, which is around the time they start to wean themselves from the mother. Usually they can be separated from the mother by about 8 weeks of age, which is when you can have the mother cat "fixed," or spayed.
2006-06-19
GN fights HTLV-1 by screening all pregnant women
Nunatsiaq News, Canada -
Nunavut’s health department outlines its plans to tackle one of the territory’s major infections, the HTLV-1 virus, in material posted on the web site of the 13th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, thousands of kilometres and a dozen time zones away, to Novosibirsk, Siberia, where doctors and public health workers from around the circumpolar world were meeting this week.
2006-06-18
Get healthy, then get pregnant
Los Angeles Times, CA -
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2006-06-16
Pregnant Women Packing On Too Many Pounds?
CBS2 Chicago, IL -
The Institute of Medicine, which is part of the National Academy of Sciences, held a 2-day workshop last month to re-examine the impact of pregnancy weight on maternal and child health. Its report, which is likely to include new weight recommendations, is due out this fall.
2006-06-15
Nutrition Wise: Charred Meat and Cancer, Queso Fresco, Lower
Kansas City infoZine, MO -
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2006-06-14
Make A Splash!
50 Connect, UK -
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2006-06-13
High school grads less likely to smoke
Science Daily (press release) -
"Many previous studies of the schooling-health link focus on general measures of health outcomes," said researchers Donald Kenkel, Dean Lillard and Alan Mathios. "Our study instead focuses on key health behaviors as specific pathways by which schooling can lead to differences in health outcomes. The results suggest completing high school yields large apparent health returns in the form of less smoking."
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