Why do people cuddle? According to a slew of media reports, that answer lies in oxytocin, dubbed either the 鈥渃uddle chemical鈥 or the 鈥渓ove hormone.鈥 English pharmacologist and neurophysiologist Sir...
Phocomelia is a birth defect that has been linked to the drug thalidomide. This word derives from the Greek words for 鈥渟eal鈥 and 鈥渓imb.鈥 Thalidomide prescribed to pregnant women for morning...
Babies who are delivered by C-section don鈥檛 go through the birth canal, and as a result they don鈥檛 get the beneficial microbes that babies born via the birth canal receive. This might help explain...