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UBC Psychology Professor Liisa Galea on ‘baby brain’ and other ways that motherhood changes a woman’s brain chemistry Motherhood permanently alters the brain, exposing moms to different health risks than women without children, says UBC neuroscientist Liisa Galea. Galea says understanding the long-term effects of motherhood will improve medical care and treatment for mothers.

Sleeping more than 8 hours and less than 6 and the lack of cognitive stimulation such as reading favours the development of cognitive impairment in people over 65. This is the main conclusion of a study carried out by researchers from the Department of Pharmacy at the University CEU Cardenal Herrera and pharmacists in the Valencian Region (Spain). The paper …

While surgical procedures to treat kidney stones are fairly common these days, about one-in-seven results in complications that require additional, potentially expensive, care, according to a new study in the journal Surgery. The study revealed that the average cost of these complications, in the form of emergency care, is about $30,000.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing stricter safety requirements for makers of trouble-prone implants used to surgically repair women’s pelvic problems. The FDA says plastic mesh used to repair pelvic collapse should be reclassified as a high-risk medical device, after years of reports of pain, bleeding and infection among women who have received the implants. If finalized, the …

Members of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots have this week called on the government of Canada to support the creation of new international law to pre-emptive ban fully autonomous weapons or ‘killer robots.’ The call was made as part of an outreach effort in the Canadian capital of Ottawa by Mines Action Canada, a co-founder of the global Campaign …

Move over Usain Bolt, there’s a new runner in town! A Southern California mite has set a new record as world’s fastest land animal and the little creature can run 20 times faster than a cheetah and the equivalent of a person running 2,092km per hour, scientists say.

Being well-endowed may have many upsides, however researchers have found it has one major drawback – that your wife is more likely to cheat. A study published in the journal PLOS One has found that men with larger penises are more likely to be cuckolded by their wives. Led by researchers from the US and Kenya, the researchers looked at …

A new research programme aims to understand 3D vision in the praying mantis, the only invertebrate known to have this ability, and compare it with vision in humans. Analysing how mantises see in three dimensions could give us clues about how 3D vision evolved and lead to novel approaches in implementing 3D recognition and depth perception in computer vision and …

Hold the peanuts, please, and pass the gluten-free cookies! Swiss International Air Lines has just become the first carrier to be certified as “allergy-friendly” by the European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF).

The Sudbury & District Health Unit is investigating a confirmed case of measles in a child in Greater Sudbury. Anyone who visited the following locations in Greater Sudbury on the dates and times listed below may have been exposed to measles:

Coral reefs have the unusual ability to adjust their inner functions to withstand the temperature of the warming ocean 50 times faster than would be possible through natural selection.