Research Reveals Babies are Bad for a Woman’s Career

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - With unemployment rates climbing to 7.9 percent in the United Kingdom and 12.4 percent in Ireland, a growing number of workers are competing for a smaller amount of available opportunities. Yahoo! UK & Ireland and CareerBuilder.co.uk, a leading online job site in the UK, have teamed up to help workers in the UK and Ireland find job openings as they become available and connect with employers in real-time.

September 16th, 2009 LONDON - - With Photo Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford from The Apprentice, along with Davina McCall are all wearing their wellington boots this Friday to support the UK's leading research charity Action Medical Research. The charity's new fundraising event 'Wear Wellies to Work' is encouraging the public to wear their wellies on Friday 18th September.

August 24th, 2009 NINOVE, Belgium - 20% of parents seek medical help because of the frequent regurgitation (spitting up food) of their baby and the accompanying discomfort (crying). Reputed medical journal "Archives of Disease in Childhood" of the "British Medical Journal" group recently published the results of the clinical research project that began at the end of 2006 in the Children's gastroenterology department of the Brussels University Hospital.

August 24th, 2009 NINOVE, Belgium - 20% of parents seek medical help because of the frequent regurgitation (spitting up food) of their baby and the accompanying discomfort (crying). Reputed medical journal "Archives of Disease in Childhood" of the "British Medical Journal" group recently published the results of the clinical research project that began at the end of 2006 in the Children's gastroenterology department of the Brussels University Hospital.

August 16th, 2009 LONDON - -Information and Discussion Enable Informed Career Choices The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk, has launched the first blog specifically aimed at the IT recruitment industry. The IT Job Board Blog, blog.theitjobboard.co.uk, offers IT professionals a central hub where they can share opinions, discuss issues and get a range of in-depth information about the industry, in order to make informed decisions about their career.

June 11th, 2009 LONDON - Startling New Research Reveals the Mental Torment of the Nation's Informal Carers - New Research Reveals the True Picture of Depression Amongst Informal Carers in the UK, With Over 54% of women classified as Informal Carers in the UK, Being Depressed - Informal Carers Have Double the Likelihood Of Moderate Depression (or More) Than the General Population (32% versus 16%) - The Research Also Reveals That Informal Carers Have Three Times the Likelihood of Moderately Severe Depression (or More) Than the General Population (16% Versus 5 %) According to new research out this week informal Carers in the UK are some of the most depressed in Europe. Over 300 informal carers took part in interviews, undertaken by research company HPI for co-operative Xest, an informal carer is defined as; 'Any person who provides a substantial amount of care on a regular basis for another individual aged 18 or over who has a long term disability or health condition, mental health problem, is frail due to old age, or unable to cope for other reasons, and is not in formal or paid employment for that role' With an ageing population and more and more people being forced into the role of informal carer, we as a nation are becoming more and more depressed by the role.

May 26th, 2009 LAGOS, Nigeria - Tropixel Limited recently partnered with Gatlin International, the world's largest elearning provider to governments, corporations and universities, to unveil new online career training courses. Available at www.vogga.org, the certificate courses are open enrolment and cover healthcare and fitness, business and professional, IT and software development, management and corporate, media and design, skilled trades and industrial, as well as hospitality and gaming.

May 20th, 2009 LONDON - In the first of a series of podcasts, Clive Sexton of Impact Executives, a global interim management provider, talks about how you can make radical changes to your career, and by radical he means doing more, sometimes much more, than simply changing job. Joined by Rob Grimsey and Carol Rosati of Harvey Nash, Clive explains that around 25% of people make a significant change before the age of 40.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Free Two Week Diet Plan With Food Costing Around GBP2 per day New research from tescodiets.com reveals that nearly 50% of consumers think joining a slimming club means they will have to spend more on their weekly shop, whilst over a third think they would also have to buy foods they wouldn't normally purchase. Despite this, the survey reveals that nearly 60% would still consider joining a slimming club to lose weight, so tescodiets.com has launched a free credit crunch diet plan for people looking for a no frills weight loss plan on which they could lose up to 6lbs in two weeks.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - 26% of Highly Paid Executives Spend Absolutely Nothing on Improving Personal Performance - Yet Experts Say Top Executives Should be Investing GBP6,000 Per Annum on Being a Better Boss TheLadders.co.uk (www.theladders.co.uk), the site for GBP50K plus executives and jobs, has found that Britain's top brass are failing to invest in their careers in spite of more pressure and tougher competition for jobs. In a study of 1439 of Britain's top executives, 26% say that they spend nothing on services such as coaching, training, career guidance, whilst 35% spend less than GBP500 per year.

June 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Guilt-ridden working mothers can chill - a new study claims, while breastfed babies are held more and read to more, they sleep 40 minutes a day less and cry five minutes a day more than bottle-fed babies. The Australian Institute of Family Studies research revealed that full-time working mums spend on average 83 minutes less per day with their baby than stay-at-home mums, but the baby's father and grandparents make up for the lost mother time, reports The Daily Telegraph.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - When it comes to controlling emotions, baby chimps do it better than human babies, concludes a new study. The research, which investigated the facial expressions of young chimpanzees, may explain why some babies cry so much and are so inconsolable.

July 1st, 2009 WHO paper: TB vaccine could kill babies with HIVGENEVA — The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine. WHO says a three-year study in South Africa found babies born with HIV had a higher risk of contracting a deadly form of TB if given the widely used BCG vaccine.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Babies are not as naïve as we think they are - at least as far as canines are concerned. A new study has claimed that infants just 6 months old can understand the different tones of dog barks, even if they've limited previous exposure.

May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study has only validated what mothers have known all along, that their babies are a lot smarter than others think. Though only five months old, the study's subjects indicated through their curious stares that they could differentiate water in a glass from solid blue material that looked very much like water in a similar glass.

August 18th, 2009 LONDON - A North African woman is due to deliver a record-breaking 12 babies this month, it has emerged. The Tunisian woman, in her 30s, turned to fertility treatment after suffering two miscarriages.

September 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - A 24-year-old woman gave birth to five babies at a private hospital in Mumbai. Sabeera Khan, a housewife from Mira Road, delivered male quintuplets at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital here.

June 9th, 2009 London, June 9 (ANI): Harvard University researchers say that babies barely a few hours old seem to possess the ability to think of numbers as abstract concepts. Lead researcher Veronique Izard describes abstract numerical thought as the ability to perceive numbers as entities, independently of specific things.

September 6th, 2009 LONDON - Are you feeling powerless as a parent? Then, here's some food for thought: a new research has claimed that a mother's beliefs even before her baby is born predict how well her infant will sleep at night later. According to researchers in Israel, if an expectant mum thinks that babies who cry at night are suffering distress and need comforting and soothing back to sleep, then her newborn is likely to wake more frequently during the night than if she believes babies should learn to settle themselves.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Babies can follow dogspeak, with little or no exposure to dogs, says a new study. Infants just six months old can match the sounds of an angry snarl and a friendly yap to photos of dogs displaying threatening and welcoming body language.