Tag: risk

A consumer watchdog group is urging parents to avoid buying soft plastic toys this holiday season because of a risk that the toys may contain toxic chemicals.

Toys containing the chemicals, called phthalates, can no longer be manufactured or imported after February 2009, according to a product safety law that passed Congress over the summer.

But the group says the Consumer Product Safety Commission is allowing the toy industry to circumvent the law. The agency wrote a letter last week telling manufacturers they can still sell their existing stocks of phthalate-containing toys even after the ban takes effect in February.

Women who eat too little during pregnancy increase the risk of their children becoming obese in later life, experts have warned.

Researchers have discovered eating too few calories while pregnant changes the way that a baby's fat cells behave once they are born.

A new study by Dr Helen Budge, from the centre of reproduction and early life at Nottingham University, found that the fat cells in lambs, which received too few calories while in the womb, produce excessive levels of inflammation.

Reduce the possibility of a heart attack with lifestyle modifications.

More than anything else, how you live your life determines your likelihood of developing coronary heart disease (CHD).

BOSTON (Reuters Life!) - Clocks spring ahead and fall back when adjusting in and out of daylight saving time. A study published on Wednesday finds that heart attack rates do the same.

The research, based on heart attacks in Sweden, concluded that the chance of a heart attack goes up during the first three weekdays after the springtime shift to daylight saving time, possibly because of sleep deprivation.

Storing donated blood too long increases the chance of an infection, US researchers clai

Swapping fried and salty foods for fruit and veg could cut a third of the heart attack risk around the world, work suggests.