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Acer Redoubles Advertising Efforts in Europe, Plans High-End Products

Since Europe has been proving to be quite the fickle mistress as far as marketing success is concerned, Acer has decided to change the way it goes about things in that area. As part of its ongoing effort to reorganize itself into a more profitable company, Acer has changed its tactics in Europe. There are two key...

13 February 2012
06:02 GMT

Jessica Alba Gives Birth to Daughter Haven

Actress Jessica Alba is a mommy again. The star gave birth over the weekend to her second child, also a baby girl whom she and husband Cash Warren named Haven Garner. Confirmation comes from Alba herself. Since she broke the happy news to her fans on Facebook, telling them directly that she was pregnant with her seco...

16 August 2011
05:42 GMT

Half of Women Hate Shopping, Survey Reveals

Coming to contradict all previous surveys, studies and polls, a new survey claims that half of women positively hate shopping because they believe clothes makers only target young and skinny girls, it has emerged. Conducted by Mintel, the survey shows that many women have been toning down on impulse buys, while shift...

7 July 2011
15:01 GMT

Smoking Habits Pass from Mother to Daughter and from Father to Son

A new research carried out by a researcher at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC), in Spain, concluded that daughters will follow the smoking habits of their mother, while sons will walk in their father's shoes. “Fathers transmit their smoking habits to a statistically significant level to t...

29 January 2011
07:11 GMT

Chimpanzees Mourn Their Infants Too – Striking Video

Max Planck Institute researchers report for the first time, in detail, the way that a mother chimpanzee responds to the death of her infant.The observations of Katherine Cronin and Edwin van Leeuwen, who have recently joined the MPI's Comparative Cognitive Anthropology group, give unique insight into the way tha...

28 January 2011
09:41 GMT

Poor Diet in Early Life Damages Fertility Later On

The environmental conditions and the food we receive in early life – prenatal or early postnatal, will influence our individual development and our reproductive success later on, concluded a team of researchers at the University of Sheffield.For the study, the team led by Dr Ian Rickard from the Department of A...

21 December 2010
06:35 GMT

Maternal Stress Worsens Child Asthma

A team of Japanese researchers, writing in BioMed Central's open access journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine, carried out a research that concluded that stressed out mothers can worsen the gravity of their children's asthma symptoms, especially if the children are very young.The scientists focused on 223 mother...

7 October 2010
06:23 GMT

Umbilical Cord Blood Does Not Give Allergy Risks

A new study has found out that biomarkers coming from the umbilical cords or newborn babies, that could assess the risk of allergies, more often come from the mother rather than from her baby.New parents are asked if they want hospitals to evaluate the risk their babies run of developing allergies later in life, and ...

6 October 2010
05:40 GMT

Greystripe Profiles Mothers with iPhones

Research from Greystripe shows that moms love iPhone apps, and are downloading these in various categories from games to productivity. The mobile advertising company has issued a PDF report answering questions like who is the iPhone Mom, how does she use her iPhone, and what types of apps does she download.“Dur...

30 July 2010
10:20 GMT

Kate Gosselin Asks for Help Raising Her 8 Kids

As she prepares for the premiere for her latest reality show, “Kate Plus 8,” on June 6, which will see her try her hand at being a single mother of 8, Kate Gosselin is taking to her blog to complain about the challenges of raising her kids, Us Magazine informs. After comparing herself to a referee instead...

15 May 2010
06:46 GMT

Woman Faces Death Threats After Tweeting Her Abortion

Angie Jackson is 27 years old and the mother of a four-year-old boy with special needs. Because the first time she got pregnant she had life-threatening complications, she decided to take to Twitter and YouTube to tell women that abortion was a viable choice and clearly not something to be afraid of – by having...

2 March 2010
16:21 GMT

Angelina Jolie and Brother Pay Touching Tribute to Late Mother

As rumors about her crumbling relationship with Brad Pitt continue to intensify, Angelina Jolie and her brother James Haven turn their attention to their late mother, with a very touching video tribute posted on her YouTube channel. The video, which is a little over 2 minutes long, shows Marcheline Bertrand while hol...

27 January 2010
05:16 GMT

Mothers Use the Same One-Liners as Their Parents

Girls, as they grow up, make a resolution to never be like their mothers, in the sense of taking after them in terms of nagging and using one-liners that don’t leave any room for reasonable argument or discussion. As they become mothers themselves, they deliberately try to avoid making the same “mistakes,...

4 December 2009
14:41 GMT

Mothers of Twins Face Double the Risk of Depression

Women who give birth to twins or have multiple births are more exposed to suffering from post-natal depression or other complications, a new study has found. With many of them, things get as bad as them not speaking with another adult for more than an hour a day, the research has also established, as reported by the ...

16 April 2009
13:11 GMT

Nursing Linked to Positive Parenting, Study Shows

The importance of young mothers to nurse their newborn children has often been stressed, with countless studies showing that the high nutritional content of their milk helps increase the baby’s IQ, among many other things. A new study comes now to prove that a mother’s milk is also linked to more pos...

27 March 2009
15:31 GMT

Poll Names Angelina Jolie ‘Yummiest Mummy’ Ever

The public has always been fascinated with polls, as redundant as they may seem. From the best actor and most bankable celebrity, to the best looking man, woman or couple in the industry, and the (in)famous worst-dressed lists, polls can cover a wide range of topics. The latest MSN-conducted survey focuses on the eig...

20 March 2009
11:03 GMT

Fathers Refuse to Change Diapers, New Poll Reveals

Although the times when only the woman was supposed to do all the chores around the house, take care of the children and have dinner ready for when the hard-working husband got home are long gone, something of that mentality is still lingering around with the new fathers. Only one in five daddies changes diapers, the...

17 March 2009
15:31 GMT

Study Shows ‘Baby Brain’ Is Just a Myth

For long, it has been believed that a woman is more forgetful and air-headed while with child than the rest of the time. Called “baby brain” or “preg head,” this was a condition that reportedly changed an expectant mother’s life for the worse. A new study comes now to prove not only that...

10 February 2009
16:31 GMT

Octuplet Mother Not Able to Take Care of Her 14 Children

While Nadya Suleman, the California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets following in-vitro fertilization, is making the television rounds to defend her choice of having as many as six embryos implanted, her own mother is speaking to the media. Angela Suleman is painting a different picture of the mother of 14 ...

10 February 2009
06:46 GMT

California Mother Gives Birth to Octuplets

A woman from California surprised her doctors on Monday, when she gave birth to 8 infants, six boys and two girls. This is only the second recorded case of octuplets in the United States, and experts say that pregnancies such as the one that just ended are extremely rare and difficult to carry out. According to their...

27 January 2009
02:09 GMT

Mother Sells Wii for Boob Job

While other parents are desperately (still) trying to get their hands on a Wii for their children, this mom we're talking about wanted to give herself a nice Christmas present, a boob job, but she had to sell a couple of Wii consoles in the process. She's the mother of 4 children and she's been having...

27 December 2007
06:26 GMT

Mothers with Lower Blood-Sugar Levels Will Have Girls

Apparently, carnivorous mothers give birth to boys and chocolate-addicted ones to girls. But even if seems funny, what a mother eats seems to really bias the sex of her offspring, as revealed by a new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Low blood-sugar amounts seem to boost the birth of females....

28 November 2007
02:57 GMT

Technology Reaching Out to Mothers

I don't know how it feels like to be a young mother or a mother of any kind, but I bet that if I had been born a girl, I would have been the worst mother ever. Not because I wouldn't have taken care of my kid or never listen to what he/she would say, but because I would spoil the damn brat with anything he ...

26 November 2007
09:44 GMT

"Naked" Mother for Stronger Toddlers

This is the solution for healthier toddlers: going naked. At least this is what the team led by John Speakman at the University of Aberdeen, UK, found and presented in the Journal of Experimental Biology: nursing female mice with a shaved back delivered more milk, which enabled them to have heavier litters (11 offspr...

20 November 2007
07:19 GMT

Finally, Someone Took All Her Money Away

So, finally someone managed to do what should have been done months and months ago and took Wino's money away from her and her drug-hungry husband. Last week, there were reports that Amy's father had also tried to do the same, concerned that Blake Fielder-Civil was not only doing whatever he pleased with hi...

12 September 2007
04:30 GMT

Which Hand Do You Use? This Shows Your Mental Health!

Which hand you use is more than a matter of choice. After left handedness has been discovered to be linked to a higher risk to some mental illnesses like schizophrenia, now the way a mother holds her baby has been also linked to her mental stability. Women cradling their babies with their right arm appear to be more ...

30 August 2007
04:52 GMT

Britney Pulls The Plug on Her Mother

When we last saw Britney Spears she had just given her mother a legal notice that informed her that she is forbidden to get close to her grandchildren. Why did she do it? To put it simple, Britney blames her mother for making her go to rehab earlier this year and is seeking revenge. So she went to a judge and claimed...

2 July 2007
10:00 GMT

Motherhood Changes The Brain's Structure

Mothers are known to be especially attuned to their child howls. But the folk wisdom has recently been scientifically proven. A research team focused on mouse mothers, which display a significantly more powerful brain response to the distress calls of infant mice than virgin females do. The research underlines the li...

13 June 2007
08:46 GMT

Twins Born from Different Mothers

By definition, twins are born by the same mother. But here are Lauren and Hannah Bernaba, born minutes apart and with almost identical looks. Biologically, it's just as if they were twins. These girls are the world's first twins to be born on the same day to two different women. First biological mother Amy ...

11 June 2007
14:21 GMT

Jordan Gets Owned!

The British media has a very funny way of poking fun at celebrities who don't quite belong in showbiz. Aside from the fact that glamour model Katie Price, aka Jordan, has done more than enough to qualify for being a star, and despite her many talents and accomplishments (which include dressing up in slutty cloth...

17 March 2007
07:46 GMT


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