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It was 2019, and Megan O’Grady was 32 weeks pregnant with her first child. She took her dogs for a walk, just as she usually did. But that day, she was surprised by how tired she was. Then her chest started to hurt. Later, sitting in a restaurant with her husband, she felt miserable. She…

Dr Raza said breastfeeding was beneficial not only for babies but also for mothers

The study, published in Frontiers in Environmental Health, tracked exposure to fine particulate matter — PM2.5 — from wildfires across the United States between 2003 and 2019. Researchers found that although emissions from transport and industry have fallen, smoke from increasingly frequent and intense wildfires is offsetting some of those public health gains

A Stanford-led study showed that analyzing children’s speech could predict whether they developed mental health conditions, such as depression or anxiety, six years later. 

The study analysed data from more than two million women in Sweden who gave birth to single babies between 1973 and 2015

Having a common birth complication such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, high blood pressure and gestational diabetes puts women at increased risk of developing peripheral artery disease in later life