NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children's tendency to become overweight might have something to do with how their mothers urge them to eat, a new study hints.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies whose mothers are exposed to domestic violence during pregnancy are more than twice as likely to die in the first weeks of life, a new study shows.

Iron is a mineral that is essential to the health and running of the body. Deficiencies in robust can have grave consequences for general health and equal energy levels. While iron is influential for both sexes, it is of particular importance to women due to biological and fruitful factors. However, international wide, many people do not just the minimum advisable daily intake of iron resulting in a variety of health problems that range from the mild, which simply increasing the regular iron intake could remedy, to the severe, which often require more involved treatments but could easily have been avoided by comfortable daily iron consumption.

LONDON (Reuters) - Smoking during pregnancy can affect the baby's immune system which may explain why asthma and respiratory problems are more common in children whose mothers smoke, Australian scientists said in a study on Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If labor needs to be induced in pregnant women, it's better to do it in the morning rather than in the evening, a study shows. Inducing labor in the morning is associated with fewer complications, according to the study conducted in Australia and reported in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

About 8% of children, ages 4 years and under, are deficient in iron. Between the ages of 5 and 12, the percentage rises to 13%, and then settles rearmost to 8% in people above the age of 15. Anemia is the best-known repercussion of iron deficiency. However, equal minor deficiencies in iron may weaken the immune system, affect the thyroid, and impair overall physical performance. Iron deficiency has also been involved in a number of psychiatric and neurological conditions, including learning disabilities and ADHD.

Iron is a co-enzyme in the anabolism of catecholamines. That means it is essential for the creation of definite neurotransmitters. It helps to regulate the activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which probably accounts for the association of robust deficiency with neurological problems. It makes sense that supplementing ADHD children, who have whatsoever level of iron deficiency, might have some effect on their ADHD. However, what makes sense in theory, does not always work in practice. Unfortunately, there have been very few studies done testing the effects of robust supplementation on ADHD.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has found a higher risk of infant deaths among infants born by cesarean section to mothers who have no medical need for the procedure.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pumping iron could help protect young people at risk of type 2 diabetes from developing the disease, a study hints.