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Detecting Brain Abnormalities in Babies Using New Brain Scanners.

...us treatment options to the premature and new born babies at the emergency units. At the moment the important issue regarding MONSTIR is its large size and the time it takes to deliver results. This new scanner is thought to reduce the size to one by two of its original size and the deliver results fiv...

Recanalization enables Tsunami mourners to parent again

... the tsunami last year are eagerly expecting their babies after a medical surgery that enabled them to conceive again.// Despite having undergone sterilisation earlier, these women in this coastal district of Tamil Nadu in southern India will now be able to have children once again after the successful pe...

New Portable Helmet Scanner To Examine Newborns

...anner has been developed for premature and newborn babies that helps doctors save them by generating images ...ondon will obviate the need to move critically ill babies to conventional scanning facilities as it works by using a technique called optical tomography to ge...

Twin Babies Help Charity

...family informed with regard to the progress of the babies who are battling for their lives. A charity driv...e charity believes that the suffering of premature babies can be prevented by further research into the subject. The weblog updates of the twins are becoming ...

Genuine Laughter Is The Best Medicine!

... Genuine laughter first emerges involuntarily in babies from the middle part of the brain and brainstem areas. Fake laughter originates toward the front of the brain, and seems to develop more as a person ages. 'One of the hallmarks of the human brain is the extent to which cortical, cognitive, namely p...

Punjab Government To Clamp Down On Sex Determination Tests

...ors who conduct sex determination tests for unborn babies which // has been outlawed. The State’s sex rati...(PNDT) Act, the determination of the sex of unborn babies is prohibited. With the generally affluent Punjabi society favoring sons, female feticide had been o...

Gujarat Seeks To Scale Down Infant Mortality Rate

...h program. As many as 5,000 // mothers and 72,000 babies die every year during delivery in the State. Through this new program named Chiranjeevi, the government aims to bring the maternal mortality rates down from the present 3.89 to one. Similarly, the Health Department expects the infant mortality rat...

Viral Infection At Birth Leads To Cerebral Palsy.

...y. A comparison study was conducted in which 443 babies suffering from cerebral palsy were compared with 8...s. The results were very shocking as most of the babies with cerebral palsy were found to have Herpes group B nucleic acid in their blood. Basically there...

New Vaccines To Combat Rotavirus

...utine part of the immunization repertoire given to babies alongside diphtheria and tetanus. "These results are really promising and very exciting," Nature quoted Umesh Parashar, an infectious-disease specialist in Georgia, as saying. To prove that the new vaccines are safe, the teams enrolled more tha...

Parental Knowledge Of RSV Infections Is Vital

...her. RSV infections are very deadly to premature babies or to those children who are discharged after a long stay in the neonatal intensive care unit for the treatment of chronic lung disease. Charles Simmons, MD, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Neonatology at Ce...

Metronidazole Increases Risk Of Premature Deliveries.

...nidazole. This is because in England around 42,500 babies are born before their full term// (22-36 weeks). W...bies. In a single week there were twenty premature babies born due to the use of this antibiotic. This antibiotic was usually administered to prevent the risk...

Rural Canadians travel far for specialists: study

...f family doctors in Canada's rural areas delivered babies in 2004, compared to 9 per cent of family doctors in the biggest cities. The report also suggests that rural doctors are increasingly following the general trend of narrowing the scope of their practices, indicating the situation may be about to s...

Islamic Medical Ethics opposes Irreversible contraceptive and surrogate motherhood.

...an transplantation from live patients, surrogating babies and reproductive cloning but allowed the use of genetic engineering for treatment of cancer and other chronic diseases. Source: ANI....

New trend of birth induction is on the rise

Statistics reveal that one in 12 babies born in New South Wales are due to induced births ...s minimal. Inductions are also useful in case of babies with known abnormalities as they can receive early treatment for their problems. Statistics show ...

SIDS on the rise

... in cases where the parents fall asleep with their babies on the sofa. // Statistics show that in the past 2...advising the parents not to fall asleep with their babies on the sofa. The researchers say that the parents cuddle their babies in the bed, sofa but fail to p...

Human Milk Center Caters To Premature Babies

... Sion Hospital caters// to newborns and premature babies whose mothers do not lactate. The deprivation of b... hospital's patients. ‘There are at least 8,000 babies born here every year. In 20 to 35 percent of these cases, direct breast-feeding becomes impossible,’...

SIDS On The Rise Among Poor Families

... and if we exclude deaths on sofas, the numbers of babies dying whilst in bed with their parents has fallen by 50% over the past 20 years', concluded Professor Fleming, one of the researchers....

Mothers Happy After Exchange Of Swapped Infants

...k ago//. On Jan 17, two women delivered surgical babies in the Ranchi Institute of Medical Science (RIMS)....ena's relatives cried foul when they suspected the babies had been switched. They lodged a complaint with the hospital management and at the Bariatu police st...

Cryopreservation of embryo eggs

... she is sexually active but not interested to have babies now; she has the option of preserving her eggs and has to not worry about infertility which occurs during old age. Eggs are preserved also in cancer patients who are likely to undergo chemotherapeutic drugs as these cancer drugs may lead to infertili...

Designer Babies- To Create Or Not To Create!

...ited the debate about the creation of designer babies for a second time. The embryo selection was target...e concept is however, very different from creating babies with desired characteristics for eye, skin color etc or for designing clever children. The maximum p...

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