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According to numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gestational diabetes afflicts up to 10-percent of expectant moms across the U.S. The condition is exacerbated if pregnant women are already overweight or carry a family history of diabetes. The confusing thing is that it can strike randomly, making carbohydrate absorption and high blood […]

A new study has linked obesity in girls with greater chances of developing multiple sclerosis or another similar MS illness. Researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Southern California Children’s health study reviewed body mass index (BMI) data from more than 900,000 children and found that 75 individuals in the group, between the ages of 2 and […]

Five additional people have died from flu-related causes in San Diego County. This brings the influenza-related death tally from 14 up to 19—marking this season as the fourth highest death toll ever in the county. On record the largest number of flu deaths in San Diego County was 51, in 2009-2010, from flu-related illnesses. San […]

A study care of the University of California suggests that babies as young as 1 ½-years-old are sensitive to the perspectives of others and can even guess what other people are going to do before they do it. The report published on LiveScience.com challenged the earlier reasoning that children aren’t aware of the perspectives of […]

A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found current adult vaccination rates in America are “unacceptably low.” The findings call for a “substantial increase” in adult vaccinations across the country. And the worry surpasses the annual flu shot, with vaccinations recommended for diseases such as pneumonia, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, […]