Infants in Biological News

Hush little baby... Linking genes, brain and behavior in children

... types of temperament in children. For example, infants who have more activity in the left frontal cortex ... "easy" and are easily calmed down. Conversely, infants with greater activity in the right half of the ... study, brain activity was measured in 9-month-old infants via electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. When ...

Brain malformations significantly associated with preterm birth, Wake Forest research shows

... to investigate the risk of being born preterm for infants who have a variety of congenital brain defects. ... also looked at published files of over 7,000 infants with "significant birth defects of any kind" and more than 260,000 infants without brain defects. The control cases came ...

Nutricia launches Nutra Neocate, weaning product designed for cows’ milk protein allergy

... Nutra has been specifically developed for weaning infants and older children with cows' milk protein ... format, Neocate Nutra is suitable for taking infants through the various stages of weaning and also ... a condition which affects between 2 to 7.5% of infants worldwide.1 With the launch of Neocate Nutra, ...

Autism Speaks funds $5 million to studies on genetic and environmental risk factors for autism

... risk for developing the disorder. Many of these infants will be followed from close to conception through ... siblings of children with autism. Some of these infants may go on to develop ASD. Their brain images will ... of early behaviors as they become evident in infants and toddlers with autism and will allow us to ...

Crib-side studies help struggling newborns go home without feeding tubes

... Children's Hospital is helping premature infants and other newborns with severe swallowing ... Children's were able to help 15 out of 20 infants with severe feeding difficulties and airway ... home without the need for feeding tubes. These infants were referred to the Neonatal and Infant Feeding ...

World breakthrough in treating premature babies

... doses of fatty acids administered to pre-term infants via their mother's breast milk or infant formula ... in the form of tuna oil capsules. If required, infants were given supplementary formula with matching ... five Australian hospitals, about 50% fewer infants on high-DHA diets had significantly delayed ...

Unusual use of toys in infancy a clue to later autism

... the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute have found that infants later diagnosed with autism exhibited unusual ... Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that all infants be screened for autism twice before their second ... received any diagnosis. The study group included infants from families who had either an older child ...

Baby talk: The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech

... of words. While studying language acquisition in infants can be a challenging endeavor, researchers have ... progress that changes previous views of what infants learn, according to a new report by University of ... in studying vocabulary development in infants. infants have a unique ability to discriminate ...

NIH selects Case Western Reserve University to participate in National Children's Study

... of preterm birth. More than 500,000 premature infants are born each year in the United States. infants born prematurely are at risk for early death and ... disabilities. Health care costs for preterm infants total $26 billion per year. ...

Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital expand national children's study to Bristol County

... Brown University, with lead partner Women & infants Hospital of Rhode Island, has been awarded a ... years. Exactly one year ago, Brown and Women & infants announced that they had been selected as one of ... the Brown faculty and our colleagues at Women & infants Hospital." "The National Children's Study has ...

Early parenting plays key role in infants' physiological response to stress

... role in changing the impact of genes that may put infants at risk for responding poorly to stress. ... Development . The researchers looked at 142 infants who had been placed in a stressful situationbeing ... which form of a dopamine receptor gene the infants carried; specific forms of this gene are related ...

Syracuse University partners with Serum Institute of India to develop vaccines for children

... rotavirus, a severe form of diarrhea that affects infants and young children worldwide. Tetanus is ... latest report. A significant percentage involved infants born in predominately rural areas who were ... during unsanitary delivery procedures. Likewise, infants and young children in these same countries have a ...

Alcohol binges early in pregnancy increase risk of infant oral clefts

... trimester were three times as likely to have infants born with oral clefts. "These findings ... investigators contacted all families of newborn infants born with clefts between 1996 and 2002. The study ... found increased risks of orofacial clefts among infants whose mothers reported binge-level drinking of an ...

Early cessation of breastfeeding by HIV+ women in poor countries and child survival

... in any statistically significant benefit to infants in terms of HIV-free survival at 24 months, compared to those infants who were weaned at an average of 16 months of age ... A further finding from the study indicated that infants who were HIV+ at four months of age had ...

A baby's smile is a natural high

... "The relationship between mothers and infants is critical for child development," said ... his colleagues asked 28 first-time mothers with infants aged 5 to 10 months to watch photos of their own babies and other infants while they were in a functional magnetic ...

Newborn vitamin A reduces infant mortality

... A single, oral dose of vitamin A, given to infants shortly after birth in the developing world can ... children. The vitamin A was given orally to the infants within a few days of birth, usually by 7 hours ... A supplementation would reduce mortality among infants in other regions, especially Africa." "We are ...

Resuscitation technique after brain injury may do more harm than good

... 1, 2008 The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain ... of death and long-term neurological damage among infants and children. This can happen during birth ... electrical signals quickly and efficiently. infants have much less myelin than adults; as myelin ...

Analysis of millions of US births shows association between birth defects and preterm birth

... a public-private agenda on premature birth. infants born preterm were more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as infants born at term, and the association was strongest ... factors that lead to preterm birth among those infants affected by major birth defects. Very preterm ...

Study suggests new way to screen infants for fetal alcohol syndrome

... of Pediatrics suggests a new way to diagnose infants affected by FAS. Dr. Jennifer Peterson, ... for Environmental Health, studied a group of 216 infants whose mothers drank various amounts of alcohol ... ages of six months, one year, and two years. infants with higher levels of FAEE in their first bowel ...

ETH Zurich researchers develop antibody test

... have attached themselves. Help for infants Thanks to the information obtained from the ... The millions of malaria sufferers are primarily infants under the age of five as only adults develop antibodies against the malaria pathogens sugars. An infants immune system is incapable of recognizing and ...

Texas Hospital nation's first to use large-scale 'cocoon strategy' against whooping cough

... strategy vaccination program to protect newborn infants from the life-threatening infection pertussis, ... infection, they are the source of its spread to infants who are too young to be protected by their own ... susceptible to this infection. In addition, young infants do not have full immunity until they have ...

Bacterial infections in premature babies more common than previously realized

... are found in 80% of vaginal and cervical fluids, infants are not generally screened for these bacterial ... finding that about one-quarter of early preterm infants is already infected at birth is important in ... included 457 consecutive singleton deliveries of infants born at 23-32 weeks gestation from 1996 to 2001. ...

Breathless babies: Preemies' lung function shows prolonged impairment

... longer. We have shown that healthy preterm infants have reduced lung function in the first months of ... Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Healthy infants born prematurely may have smaller sized airways ... the American Thoracic Society. That premature infants have less well developed lungs than their full ...

Walking tall to protect the species

... often with additional support. Months later, infants are carried over the adult body usually on the ... years in apes. However, this necessity to carry infants safely imposes limits on the weight of the ... hair friction and body angle which ensures ape infants are carried safely. Amaral also shows how the ...

Scientists find predisposition to bronchiolitis in some babies

... Scientists have found that a large proportion of infants who suffer from bronchiolitis have an inherent ... is the most prevalent acute wheezing disorder in infants and is the most common cause of admission to ... Bronchiolitis frequently develops in infants suffering from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ...

Study reveals possible genetic risk for fetal alcohol disorders

... MADISON - New research in primates suggests that infants and children who carry a certain gene variant may ... a week during breeding and pregnancy. After the infants were born, the scientists recorded their ... researchers found is that fetal alcohol-exposed infants who carried a copy of the short form were more ...

Monkeys use 'baby talk' to interact with infants

... may be adaptively designed to attract young infants and engage their attention, similar to how the ... females become highly aroused while observing the infants of other group members, explains lead author of ... girneys. The calls appear to be used to elicit infants attention and encourage their behavior. They also ...

NIH stimulus funding supports Emory biomedical scientists

... of video viewing on infant learning TV programs and videos targeted at infants are flourishing, despite the recommendation by the American Academy of ... well as the potential benefits, of educational video materials targeted at infants and toddlers. Vitamin D and lung scarring: Pulmonary fibrosis, or ...

Experimental treatment halts hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborns

... the study also shows this system may be a promising therapeutic target in infants suffering hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). Identification of a ... models. The researcher team also recommends studies to determine whether infants diagnosed with HIE, or who are at high risk cerebral palsy, have elevated ...

Study suggests obese women should not gain weight

... findings showed that there were no fetal deaths and no growth-restricted infants in the study group. Also, there were fewer babies weighing more than 10 ... group. (A birth weight over 10 pounds poses significant hazards to both infants and mothers.) Moreover, women in the study group gained less weight, had ...

UC Davis bioengineer receives Hartwell Foundation grant to address skull fusion disorder of infants

... at UC Davis will start work this month on developing a new treatment for infants born with disorders that cause the sutures of their skulls to prematurely ... support from traditional sources. Surgery is the standard treatment for infants diagnosed with craniosynostosis, the generic name for a group of disorders ...

Does mom know when enough is enough?

... and Behavior reports that mothers who miss signs of satiety in their infants tend to overfeed them, leading to excess weight gains during the 6 month ... that mothers who were less sensitive to satiety cues had infants who gained more weight. Writing in the article, John Worobey, PhD; ...

Study finds homicidal poisoning rising, more likely in infants and elderly

... Athens, Ga. Homicidal poisonings are rare but on the riseand infants are the most common victimsaccording to a new University of Georgia study ... a premeditated crime committed against adults, the researchers found that infants are the most common victims. Children less than one year old are ...

States expand newborn screening for life-threatening disorders

... families and provide additional funding for follow-up and treatment for infants who test positive for disorders identified through screening. The ... requirements on expanded newborn screening, only 38 percent of infants were born in states that required screening for 21 or more of 29 core ...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- Jan. 14, 2009

... factors that can damage the prenatal immune system as well as that of infants and children, according to an article scheduled for the Jan. 19 issue of ... other environmental factors on the developing immune system in fetuses, infants and children. Research so far suggests links between those factors and an ...

Facebook flack regarding breastfeeding mothers

... encourages "images of breastfeeding as the normal way to feed infants in most places women and their infants go." Facebook should certainly be considered one of those places. ...

Primate culture is just a stone's throw away from human evolution, study finds

... the development of the infant's stone-handling abilities. In other words, infants with mothers who frequently exhibited stone-handling behaviors spent more ... stone-handling caught the infants' attention, and as a result, the infants acquired the behavior more quickly than other infants. Furthermore, as ...

Vitamin D deficiency in infants and nursing mothers carries long-term disease risks

... among people with darker skin. Nutritional rickets among nursing infants whose mothers have insufficient levels of vitamin D is an increasingly ... to achieve adequate vitamin D levels in breastfeeding mothers and their infants without toxicity. In a paper entitled, "Does Vitamin D Make the World ...

Tracking the molecular pathway to mixed-lineage leukemia

... CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Dec. 15, 2008) infants and adults with the blood cancer mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) typically have a poor prognosis, and most infants die before their first birthdays. Although there are varying causes of ...

UNC expands brain imaging study of infants at risk for autism

... of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers using brain imaging of infants to examine changes in their brains and behavior that may mark the onset of ... Center of Excellence under the project title "A Longitudinal MRI Study of infants at Risk for Autism." The NIH recently awarded the project supplemental ...