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The researchers tried to use evolution to explain why men often prefer younger women and what typically drives women's desire for older men, said their leader, Vienna University anthropologist Martin Fieder.

While it is no surprise to hear that men pick younger women to bolster their reproductive fitness and that women choose older partners for security, the study is the first to quantify the age difference that results in the most children, he said.

"Nobody has shown before this has consequences for the number of offspring," Fieder said in a telephone interview.

(Read content ‘Age difference is key to having most kids: study (Reuters)’…)

Babies born to mothers with untreated gestational diabetes have nearly double the normal risk of becoming obese during childhood, but treatment to normalize blood sugar also normalizes risk, early research suggests. (Read content ‘Study: Moms’ Diabetes Increases Kids’ Risk’…)

Women may feel less pain and have an easier recovery from breast cancer surgery if they have a hypnosis session first, a new study shows.

The study included 200 women who were due to get breast cancer surgery at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center. (Read content ‘Breast Cancer Surgery: Hypnosis May Help’…)

Thirteen-month-old Dominic Klatt stopped banging the furniture in the verandah, looked at his mother and clasped his right hand around his left wrist to signal that he needed to go to the bathroom. (Read content ‘Babies Get Head Start On Toilet Training’…)

Oh, your aching back!

But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to a specialist.

Dr. Brian Hainline is the author of “Back Pain Understood: A Cutting-Edge Approach to Healing Your Back,” and the chief medical officer of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, which is under way. (Read content ‘Avoiding Back Pain As We Age’…)

The seatbelt syndrome refers to a cluster of injuries that can involve the spine and abdomen, which may often initially appear to be minor. (Read content ‘Lap belt injury can be more severe than it appears (Reuters)’…)

Each candidate spoke separately at the Iowa event, with Edwards and Clinton focused on the ongoing debate among the party’s top-tier rivals over accepting campaign donations from lobbyists.

Clinton has refused to forsake such donations.

(Read content ‘Clinton, Edwards tussle over lobbyists (AP)’…)

According to a new study, this Deep South state is the fattest in the nation. (Read content ‘Miss. ranked fattest state in nation (AP)’…)

The survey of emergency response to schools in the Seattle area over 16 years found that students suffered cardiac arrests only 12 times and a third of these children had known heart problems.

Most of the cardiac arrests at schools between 1990 to 2005 involved adults — teachers, volunteers or people just walking on school property.

(Read content ‘Study questions school defibrillators (AP)’…)

The research found that the higher the mother’s blood sugar levels, the greater the child’s risk of being obese by age 5 to 7, even if the mother wasn’t diagnosed with diabetes.

Untreated high blood sugar nearly doubled the child’s risk of becoming overweight or obese, said the study’s lead author, Dr.

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