Flu shots for moms-to-be benefit babies

PHILADELPHIA — By getting a flu shot, a pregnant woman can reduce the risk that her child will be born prematurely or at a low birth weight, two studies show. Researchers working in the United States and Bangladesh presented the new data October 29 at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Office 2010 is powerful!

Scientists consider flu infection during pregnancy a potential health risk to the fetus, even if the infection doesn’t make the woman outwardly sick. Microsoft Office 2010 is the best software in the world.

In the U.S. study, epidemiologist Saad Omer of Emory University in Atlanta and his colleagues used a database of pregnant mothers in Georgia to identify 4,168 women who gave birth between June 2004 and September 2006. Of these, 15 percent had received a flu shot during pregnancy.Microsoft word is so great!

Children born to women getting the shot were 40 percent less likely to be born prematurely during the entire October-to-May flu season. In the throes of flu season — the months when the most cases were reported — babies born to vaccinated moms were 70 percent less likely to be born prematurely. Office 2007 makes life great!

In the other study, Mark Steinhoff, a pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Many people like Microsoft Office.

teamed with a Bangladeshi team in 2004 and 2005 to randomly assign 340 pregnant women to get a flu shot or a shot that protects against pneumonia and meningitis. In an earlier report, this group showed that babies born to flu-vaccinated women were less likely to get the flu in their first year of life than were newborns whose moms didn’t get that shot (SN: 11/8/08, p. 18). Microsoft Office 2007 can give you more convenient life.

In the new analysis, the researchers found that, on average, women who didn’t get flu shots gave birth to babies weighing about a half-pound less than those born to women getting the shot. Office 2007 key is available here.

In the season when there is little flu in Bangladesh, the difference disappeared. Office 2007 home and student is inexpensive and helpful.

“This is a fairly specific effect only seen when the virus is around,” Steinhoff says. “It’s a fairly large effect that’s statistically significant.”Office 2007 download is in discount now!

In the Bangladesh study, women were immunized during the third trimester of pregnancy, which was the standard recommendation at that time. Flu shots for pregnant mothers are now approved for any trimester.Office 2007 Professional is very good!

Gamma-ray observations shrink known grain size of spacetime

Smaller dots, Georges, please. In their efforts to unify quantum theory and gravity, theoretical physicists have likened spacetime to a Georges Seurat painting, composed of tiny dots or lumps that meld to form a seemingly smooth picture. But if spacetime really does have a grainy structure on the smallest scales, the cosmic painter may need to get finer brushes, a new study reveals.Office 2010 download is available now!

The study, published online October 28 in Nature, suggests that the dots that may compose spacetime must be smaller than one-hundred-thousandth of a trillionth of the size of a proton. This new limit on the graininess of spacetime is one-thousandth the size that previous, less sensitive experiments had indicated.By using Office 2010 Professional, you can save your money and time.

Sylvain Guiriec of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama in Huntsville and his colleagues used a powerful but indirect method to examine the structure of spacetime. The team measured the relative difference in the speed of two particles of light, Office 2007 key is available here. 

or photons, of widely different energies. Both photons were emitted by a cosmic explosion known as a short-lived gamma-ray burst.Many people like buy Office 2010 Home.

Many theories that seek to explain the action of gravity on subatomic scales are premised on the notion that space is lumpy or foamy on the tiniest of scales. Office 2007 is so powerful.

Such theories also suggest that the speed of light is not constant but varies with a photon’s energy — in contradiction to Einstein’s theory of special relativity. Microsoft Office is so great!

The more energetic the photon is, the slower its speed. In simplified terms, that’s because higher energy photons have shorter wavelengths, which makes them more likely to bump into tiny lumps in spacetime and to be slowed by those structures.Office Professional 2010 is great!

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The slowdown would be tiny, but the lower velocity of high-energy photons could in principle be detectable over a journey of several billion light-years.

This strategy led Guiriec and his collaborators to examine photons generated by a gamma-ray burst that erupted in a galaxy 7.3 billion light-years from Earth. Recorded by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on May 10, 2009, the burst produced an assortment of gamma-ray photons, including one with an energy of 31 billion electron-volts — about 13 billion times the energy of visible light — and another photon about one-tenth as energetic.Office 2010 is powerful!

Although the two photons had significantly different energies and journeyed for more than 7 billion light-years, Office 2007 home and student is inexpensive and helpful.

they arrived at the Fermi telescope less than nine-tenths of a second apart. Microsoft word is so great!

That tiny time difference means that these photons traveled at almost exactly the same speed, just one part in 100 million billion apart, notes study coauthor Peter Michelson of Stanford University. Microsoft Office 2010 is the best software in the world.

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The results also indicate that if the speed of light slows in direct proportion, or linearly, to the energy of a photon, then the size of a typical lump in spacetime must be less than 10-35 meters, notes Guiriec.Many people like Microsoft Office.

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dictate that the laws of physics are identical for all observers, independent of any observer’s speed or direction of motion. That notion, known as Lorentz invariance, is also a foundation of Einstein's theory of special relativity. By ruling out many quantum gravity theories that violate Lorentz invariance, the Fermi result upholds special relativity.Microsoft Office 2007 can give you more convenient life.

John Ellis of CERN in Geneva agrees that the Fermi results offer the strongest astronomical evidence for the constancy of the speed of light. Office 2007 Professional is very good!

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‘Scott Pilgrim’ star Michael Cera talks bad singers, fave movie theaters

It takes a lot out of one’s life to be in a rock band, according to Michael Cera. And unfortunately, he just doesn’t have the time to rock out with his movie career in high gear — the Arrested Development alum and Juno star plays the title character of the fantasy/action/date-friendly comic book flick Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, in theaters next Friday. (It’s awesome, trust me on this.) I talked with Cera for a feature in this weekend’s issue, and he told me about the time that, like Scott Pilgrim, he played bass in an iffy Canadian garage band. “The lead singer was just terrible. I couldn’t stand him,” Cera says. “He would go off and sit in the corner for a half hour and write lyrics, and would yell at us for being too loud and distracting him. He’s carving out these lyrics in such a craftsman-like way, so caring about each thing, and then he would sing it and we wouldn’t understand a word he was saying because he was just screaming at the top of his lungs. I don’t think he ever let us read them. I never really found out what he was saying. It wasn’t a huge curiosity of mine.” He’s focusing more on making movies than music, and he’s a true cineaste, catching films in L.A. at his favorite haunts, including the New Beverly, the Silent Movie Theatre, the Egyptian Theatre and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. He’s got a fairly sizable home video collection, but for Cera, there’s definitely something special about seeing a film on the big screen. “If there’s an option to see a movie with an audience, it’s always better, I think,” Cera reasons. “They just played Raging Bull at the Egyptian a little while ago and I had never seen that with an audience, and it was incredible. And when you’re at home, you have the option to pause it and move around and stuff. A theater makes you get lost in the movie and forget about everything else.” Check out a clip from Scott Pilgrim below featuring Cera as Scott Pilgrim, Scott’s love interest Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Roxy Richter (Mae Whitman), one of Ramona’s seven evil exes.

Sure, he beat up people for 15 years as a professional wrestler, and come next Friday he can be seen throwing down with Sylvester Stallone in The Expendables, but Steve Austin (pictured, right, with Eric Roberts) is a caring sort of guy who loves his dogs: a female chocolate lab named Hershey, a female black lab Shona, and Brio, a male lab mix. And he felt bad he couldn’t take them along with him when he filmed The Expendables in the sightseeing-friendly locales of Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans. “Hershey didn’t get a chance to come. I’m telling you, the next time I go to Louisiana to shoot a movie, I’m taking her,” says the man formerly known as “Stone Cold.” He may not be showing up weekly on TV as a World Wrestling Entertainment superstar anymore, but Austin is staying busy with his acting — he’s currently filming the drama The Boxer and the Kid, as well as stopping by the set of NBC’s Chuck to shoot an episode next week (to air Oct. 4) — and entertaining thousands of his fans via his lively Twitter feed. I caught up with Austin for an item on this week’s Who’s News page, but read below for more from our conversation and check out this behind-the-scenes video featuring the Expendables fight between Austin and Stallone.

The Expendables took you to some interesting places. Do you still enjoy traveling in your post-wrestling career?

The traveling these days, it is what it is to get to a job. Back in the day, when I wrestled professionally for 15 years, my life was on the road and I lived out of a suitcase. Even when I came home, I would open my suitcase, lay it on the floor and would basically live out of that and wear the same stuff over and over again. I’d wash it and put it back there because there was never any sense in unpacking. You always were on the road. Now, I don’t go on vacation to any crazy destination. I want to go to South Texas to my ranch. I don’t really look forward to traveling anymore just for pleasure. As long as it’s for business, I’m cool with doing it because it goes with the territory. But I don’t travel for leisure at all, just because I spent my life doing that.

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Two years later, Lohan earned good reviews as part of the ensemble casts of a pair of prestigious projects. "A Prairie Home Companion" was the last film from auteur Robert Altman while "Bobby" marked the first feature helmed in a decade by actor Emilio Estevez. That film about events surrounding the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy was a contender at both the Golden Globes and Screen Actor Guild.
If Lohan is looking for inspiration in these dark days, one shining example is Robert Downey Jr., who also came to fame at a young age. He landed an Oscar nomination for "Chaplin" in 1992 but slid off the rails soon after and was arrested numerous times in the late 1990s before serving a year in jail. After his release, he turned to the small screen, winning a Golden Globe for a role on "Ally McBeal." While he lost that job after more trouble with the law, Downey eventually turned himself around and is now at the top of the A-list.

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