Taking pine bark extract for a few days before a long-haul flight may reduce the severity and duration of jet lag symptoms, researchers from G D’Annunzio University, Italy indicate.
Women who’ve had an unplanned pregnancy are at risk of future unplanned pregnancies, regardless of risk factors like age and education, researchers from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island found.
During the winter months, our skin seems to need greater attention. In addition to using the usual external creams and lotions it is important to pay attention to our diet.
Fifty years ago, a soldier injured on the battlefield would be sewn up by medics using sheep’s gut. A hundred years earlier they would have used silk. Before that, metal wire.
The baby didn’t look sick, as he lay in his mother’s arms and looked around the room at the clinic. He wasn’t screaming inconsolably, wasn’t limp and listless.