Reports of a traditional Chinese medicine having beneficial effects for people suffering from type 2 diabetes now has some scientific evidence to back up the claims.

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Congratulations, you’re going to have a baby. Though the average pregnancy lasts 266 days - 38 weeks from the time of conception - your expected date of delivery is calculated from the first day of your last period. This is 40 weeks, which doctors divide into three ‘trimesters’, each lasting three months.

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In the years following pregnancy, a drop in the relapse rate is noted among women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a recent report by European investigators.

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Did your mother take a drug to avoid a miscarriage while she was pregnant with you? That’s something women should know, because new research suggests women born to mothers who took the synthetic estrogen known as diethylstilbestrol (DES) while they were pregnant are significantly more likely to develop breast cancer as they get older.

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When Hollywood’s golden couple, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, had their first child, it was a girl. When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had a baby, and Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin had a baby, they also were girls. Coincidence? Perhaps not. Research from the London School of Economics indicates that physically attractive couples are 36 percent more likely than unattractive couples to produce a girl as their first child.

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