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 Father Information - January 7, 2009
| Moms aren't the only victims of postpartum depression. A new study finds new dads can suffer from the condition as well. Researchers concluded that about 14 percent of mothers and 10 percent of fathers have moderate or severe postpartum depression | | After studying the brain structure of small monkeys, scientists reported that just like females, males also experience sharp changes in their hormones once they start parenting. Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy and her colleagues from Princeton University studied the brain structure of common marmosets including small monkeys that live in trees that had become fathers, reported the online edition of New Scientist | | A new study suggests that fathers with multiple sclerosis may be more likely to pass on the disease to their children. Although MS is twice as prevalent in women as in men, researchers at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine found children are twice as likely to get MS if their fathers have it | | New India Assurance Company Limited is introducing a unique insurance plan for people living in rural areas through the local self-government institutions (LSGIs) in the State. The General Insurance Service Through Local Administrative Bodies (GISLAB) aims are at expanding general insurance coverage to the rural population. This program itself is expected to provide employment for 8,000 individuals | | Sex selection of babies for non-medical reasons is set to be outlawed in the U.K. under government plans for a shake-up of embryology regulation. Health Minister Caroline Flint reportedly told Parliament she intends to introduce a "clear and specific ban" on the use of new techniques to choose one gender of baby, warning that allowing parents to pick sex for reasons such as "balancing" the make-up of their family could be the start of a "slippery slope" to designer babies | |
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