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On Friday morning, Janet Johnson gave birth to her ‘big’ baby boy, named JaMichael Brown, by Cesarean section in Longview, Texas. She had already been told by her doctors that her soon-to-arrive son would be big.

Newborn is the size of six-months-old

According to researchers, home health care not only saves money but is a less traumatic experience for both the cancer patient and their caregivers.

Lead author of the study, Dr. Alexi Wright, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, stated, "Patients with cancer who died in an intensive care unit or hospital experienced more physical and emotional distress and worse quality of life at the end of life.

According to the research, mild exercise can help in lowering use of sedatives as these have to be decreased in order to enable the patient to exercise and reduce the recovery time of severely ill patients in the intensive care unit by more than two to three days.

Dr Dale Needham and his contemporaries from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine initiated the latest study that explored the benefits of mild exercise for critically ill intensive care unit patients.