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  • Iodine deficiency during pregnancy may lead to lower IQ among kids

    Researchers have claimed that mild iodine deficiency during pregnancy could be dimming the intellect of some babies born in the UK. Their study of 1,000 families showed lower IQs and reading scores in primary school pupils whose mother had had too little iodine while pregnant. Academics advise women of child-bearing age to maintain iodine in their diets by eating dairy products and ...

  • Mothers diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies

    Jeremy Laurance is Health Editor of The Independent and the i and has covered the specialism for more than 20 years. He thinks the harm medicine does is under-appreciated, the harm it prevents over-rated, and that cycling works better than most drugs. He was named Specialist Journalist of the Year in the 2011 British Press ...

  • Alec gives his baby a boost

    Alec Baldwin certainly Cannes sweep his wife off her feet.The actor, 55, and pregnant yoga-instructor missus Hilaria, 29, made a romantic picture yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival. They were at a photo call for "Seduced and Abandoned,’’ the documentary Baldwin made with director James Toback about trying to finance a film.Baldwin donned a pair of sunglasses as he gave his ...

  • Drunken baby Polish baby boy born nearly 23 times over drunk-driving limit

    A new mother is facing criminal charges including possible jail time after her baby was born drunk. UK’s The Mirror reports that a 24-year-old new mother had a baby born drunk after she collapsed during an apparent binge drinking marathon very late in her pregnancy. It gets better. She had passed out drunk at an off-license in Tomaszow, Poland, while she was trying to buy more booze. ...

  • Naming your baby the B-list way

    .It's a fly-on-the-wall reality show that first aired seven years ago and follows the lives of the incredibly rich and rather shallow Kardashian family, all the female members of which have a name starting with the letter K.Kris Jenner is the matriarch of the brood and it was her idea to give her daughters names which all began with the same letter, for no other reason than she thought it ...

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The Thirteenth Floor

There have been a number of American films in the last few years that have been built on the notion of questioning What is reality? These include "Dark City," which played with the idea of implanted memories, "The Truman Show," which gave us a TV studio masquerading as the real world, and, most recently, "The Matrix," with its alien-imposed, prison-like virtual world. What these films have ... ...

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  • Bill Murray Knows What To Do With A Crying Baby

    Bill Murray may be one of the funniest men on the planet. Unfortunately, this tot didn't get the memo. Though their first meeting ended in tears, we have full confidence that Bill and Baby can work out their ...

  • Hero nurse helps save newborn baby and mother in Moore

    Nurse Cheryl Stoepker of the Moore Medical Center explains how she protected a newborn child and his mother as the tornado wreaked havoc on the hospital building they hid ...

  • TLCs Little Couple Preview A Crash Course in Parenting

    It's crunch time on TLC's "Little Couple" On Tuesday's episode, Bill Klein and Jen Arnold arrive in China to pick up their adoptive son. But, there are still a few more things they need to figure out beforehand - like how to open the crib, perhaps? It may seem like the entire process happened in a matter of weeks, but the stars have been on a waiting list for an ...

  • Baby peregrine falcons nest at Philadelphia City Hall

    An official with the Pennsylvania Game Commission said a quartet of baby peregrine falcons at Philadelphia City Hall are estimated to be about 30 days old. F. Arthus McMorris, the peregrine-falcon coordinator for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, said he spent Monday banding the birds, which are the offspring of a mated pair among just 33 known peregrine falcons in the state, the Philadelphia ...

  • Russian mom detained after babies found in fridge

    Police in a small town in Russia's Urals have detained a woman suspected of killing her newborn sons by freezing them to death. The bodies were discovered in the freezer of a local food store where they have been kept for five years. The bodies were found on Tuesday in Verkhnyaya Pyshma in the Sverdlovsk region by staff at the store. Past inspections of the store by local officials had ...

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