Australia-Science & Health
  • About one in six sudden infant deaths may be linked to their mothers' heavy alcohol use during or soon after pregnancy.

    LAST UPDATE : Feb 26, 2013, 5:15 PM EST
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  • Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia announces plain cigarette packaging plans at a press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013.

    The country plans to make tobacco companies remove their logos from cigarette packs but will wait until a challenge to a similar Australian law is resolved.

    LAST UPDATE : Feb 19, 2013, 3:11 AM EST
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  • Benjamin Lesczynski, 8, of New York, takes a sip of a "Big Gulp" outside City Hall on July 9, 2024

    Multinational food, drink and alcohol companies are using strategies similar to those employed by the tobacco industry to undermine public health policies.

    LAST UPDATE : Feb 12, 2013, 11:04 AM EST
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  • A review of the existing evidence finds it to be inconclusive about whether omega-3 fatty acids taken by mothers during pregnancy boost their kids' brain development early in life.

    LAST UPDATE : Feb 08, 2013, 4:31 PM EST
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