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Elon Musk’s father suggests having babies should be more like breeding horses | US News
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The alliance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk framed the 2024 election and their bond has only deepened since. Musk has been a regular fixture at the president-elect’s Florida mansion and the pair have introduced their families. He has been privy to phone conversations with world leaders, consulted with Trump on his cabinet picks and…
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Pregnant women urged to get whooping cough vaccine as nine young babies die amid surge in cases in England | UK News
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Pregnant women have been advised to get vaccinated against whooping cough after nine young babies died as cases of the illness surged in England. Whooping cough, which affects the lungs and breathing tubes and spreads very easily, according to the NHS, is responsible for the deaths of nine babies between November and the end of…
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COVID-19 ‘pandemic babies’ developed ‘fascinating’ protection against common condition, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic saw changes in newborn babies that may have protected them against allergies, according to a study. Infants raised when coronavirus social distancing restrictions were in place were found by Irish researchers to have more of the beneficial microbes acquired after birth from their mother, which could act as a…
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Chimpanzees make sounds like human babies as they learn to speak, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Young chimpanzees can make similar sounds to babies as they learn to speak, researchers have found. Primates studied by the University of Portsmouth were capable of similar vocal functional flexibility to humans as they grew up. The team filmed 28 infant apes at a sanctuary in Zambia as they made sounds such as grunts, whimpers,…
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Facebook urged to ‘stand up for babies’ over ‘hazardous’ formula milk ads | UK News
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Facebook’s failure to stop open containers of baby formula being traded online has put infants in danger, campaigners and charities say. It comes after a Sky News investigation into the desperate measures some families are having to take because they cannot afford the rising prices of infant formula milk. Hartlepool Baby Bank highlighted the “horrendous”…
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Most extreme online child sexual abuse material doubles in two years – with babies and toddlers among the victims | UK News
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Newborn babies and toddlers are among the victims of the most severe online sexual abuse, with the amount of the most extreme material doubling in the last two years, a new report has found. In 2022, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) took action to remove or block 51,369 web pages containing Category A child sexual…
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Give peanut butter to babies to cut allergy rates by 77%, scientists say | UK News
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Giving babies smooth peanut butter between the age of 4 and 6 months could cause peanut allergies to plummet, scientists say. Researchers found there was a clear “window of opportunity” to expose babies to peanuts and reduce the risk of them developing an allergy. It needs to be done by the time they are six…
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100,000 newborn babies to have their DNA decoded in hunt for rare diseases | Science & Tech News
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Thousands of babies born with rare genetic diseases each year could get faster access to treatment after a £175m boost to “cutting edge genomic research” was announced. Genomics England will sequence the genomes of 100,000 newborns – which involves the study of people’s DNA – for rare conditions, after the government provided £105m in funding…
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‘Game-changing’ vaccine given to pregnant mums can cut risk of life-threatening disease RSV in their babies | Science & Tech News
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A “game-changing” vaccine given to pregnant mums can dramatically reduce the risk of a life-threatening respiratory disease in their babies, according to new results from a late-stage clinical trial. The vaccine, code-named RSVpreF, lowered the chances of severe illness from the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) by 82% in the first 90 days of life, and…
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Pollution can reach babies in the womb and could damage developing organs, scientists say | UK News
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Air pollution particles can get into the organs of foetuses as they develop in the womb, potentially damaging development, a study has suggested. Academics from the University of Aberdeen and Hasselt University in Belgium found evidence of black carbon particles – also known as soot particles – in blood in the umbilical cord. That, in…