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Topic: Pregnancy News - CBS and Fox Nix Condom Ads to Prevent Pregnancy (Gay City News)

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

A TV ad for Trojan condoms that portrays a man at a bar as a pig until he returns from the restroom with a condom was rejected by the Fox because, “Contraceptive advertising must stress health-related uses rather than the prevention of pregnancy,” the network wrote to Trojan, the New York Times reported. CBS also rejected the ad, which was accepted by NBC, ABC, and nine cable networks. Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at NYU, told the Times, “It’s so hypocritical for any network in this culture to go all puritanical on the subject of condom use when their programming is so salacious. Copyright © 1995 - 2007 Townnews. read more

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Topic: Pregnancy News - Prenatal omega-3 may boost baby’s brainpower (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Researchers found that 9-month-olds whose mothers had eaten DHA-fortified bars during pregnancy performed better on a test of problem-solving abilities than infants whose mothers had not added DHA to their diets. Half were randomly assigned to eat a cereal bar supplemented with 300 mg of DHA from fish oil, while the rest were given a bar with added corn oil to serve as a comparison. One study found that giving women fish oil during pregnancy and during the first few months of breastfeeding seemed to boost their children's IQ scores at age 4. Women can go a "long way" toward getting 300 mg of DHA per day by eating a couple tuna fish sandwiches, plus a serving of fatty fish like salmon, each week, according to Lammi-Keefe. read more

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Pregnancy: A Man’s Guide (AskMen)- Pregnancy News

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Pregnancy occurs when the sperm and egg meet It takes the meeting of the sperm , which carries the X or Y chromosome, and the egg, which carries the X chromosome, for a pregnancy to occur. Sperm can stay viable for up to five days Although an egg will only survive for 24 hours, male sperm may stay alive and viable for up to five days after it has entered the woman's body, making it possible to conceive at almost any time. Out of the millions of sperm that are propelled into the woman's body with one ejaculation, only one sperm will penetrate the egg to fertilize it. About Us | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | RSS Feeds IGN’s enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA . read more

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