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Singapore offers 'pandemic baby bonus' to boost births
2020-10-06 04:43:47| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The country, which has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, is paying parents to have babies.
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Study estimates cost of US preterm births attributable to PM2.5 in 2010 at $4.33B
2016-03-30 14:56:17| Green Car Congress
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Study Suggests Air Pollution May Cause Premature Births
2016-03-30 13:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A new study suggests that air pollution may be a cause for premature births every year. And not only is it a health hazard for both the mother and the child, but air pollution also showed a huge negative economic impact, not just on the search for environmental solutions, but also on its impact on huge medical costs. While the study is still not fully clear on its definite connection, there is evidence linking expecting mothers and preterm birth, or delivery three weeks ahead of term. According...
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Virgin births may be common among snakes
2016-01-04 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] A new review provides intriguing insights on parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, in snakes. Interestingly, facultative parthenogenesis, or asexual reproduction in an otherwise sexually reproducing species, appears to be quite common among snakes and may represent a potentially important feature of vertebrate evolution. On the other hand, obligate parthogenesis—when organisms exclusively reproduce through asexual means—is extremely rare in snakes. While researchers'…
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New study shows fracking poses increased risk of premature births
2015-10-10 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: Expectant mothers living near fracking sites have a higher risk of premature births. This is the conclusion of a new study published Sept. 30 in the journal Epidemiology. What they found was that mothers who lived in the vicinity of drilling and fracking sites were 40 percent more likely to give birth to premature babies. They were also 30 percent more likely to have high-risk pregnancies. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley and...
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