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Pregnant mothers dental health can lead to pre-term babies

...fect the pregnancy by causing pre-term delivery or babies born with low birth weight. Researchers have evaluated specific oral bacteria like Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sobrinus, Streptococcus sanguinus, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Actinomyces naeslundii genospecies (gsp) 1 and 2...

WHO report asks for improved healthcare for mother and child

...try only two third of the pregnant women get their babies delivered through a trained professional each year. In the least developed countries the number is only one third of the total women pregnant. About 10.6 million children die each year before their fifth birthday. Most of these deaths are due to lo...

Obesity may be from weight gained by the newborn

Newborn babies who are raised on milk formula with or without bre...r life. The study was done on a group of American babies who were raised on baby formula. These people were again observed at the ages of 20 to 32 years to u...

Infection in pregnancy can lead to congenital eye defects

...y scientists of England, congenital eye defects in babies like small eyes or having no eyes //at all may be ...al infections of the pregnant mother do affect the babies and more research is required to decide on the course of treatment...

Contraceptive pills may lead to deformities in babies

Chemicals found in oral contraceptives may lead to babies born with deformed prostate glands.// Researchers of University of Missouri, US, have found out that prostate deformities can happen if the pregnant mothers continue taking the contacepive pills even after conceiving. The pills contain ostrogen like...

Grandmother’s diet in pregnancy can affect grandchildren’s blood sugr

...ed diet during pregnancy and lactation. The female babies born from this generation of rats had babies with altered glucose and insulin metabolism. The female babies of this generation were also born wit...

Birth weight and adult body weight increases heart disease

...ce it is not a good idea to restrict the growth of babies in their mother’s womb....

Mothers diet in pregnancy and after can prevent daughter’s breast cancer

...American Association for Cancer Research said that babies who also had continued to have diet rich in omega 3 fatty acids will be benefited the most from their mother’s diet. Researchers have also pointed out that conversely, mother’s diet consisting of omega 6 fatty acids will increase the risk of daughte...

Delaying pregnancy may lessen life expectancy of the child

... if they are born weighing less than 2.5kgs. These babies are more likely o have serious health problems as newborns, and may be more at risk from long term disabilities like mental retardation, cerebral palsy, malfunctions of the lungs, eyes or ears. The results of the study will be published in the curre...

Colic in babies may be related to maternal depression and stress

...regarding what is colic. A recent study had linked babies with colic to mothers who suffer from severe post partum depression and stress from handling a baby without any support system. Post partum depression is the depression that several mothers suffer after childbirth. When mothers suffering from such a...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage

...e exposed to. Genetic alterations that happen in babies had been linked with incidence of leukemia and other forms of cancer in later life. Researchers feel there may be more health hazards related to chromosomal changes that are yet to be discovered. The study will be published in a future issue of the ...

People with low birth weight may help themselves in diabetes

...ltiple fetuses etc can all compound the problem of babies being born with low birth weights....

Drug for cancer may help restrict premature labor

... labor. Women who have premature delivery of their babies often suffer from this fall in the levels of the hCG hormone. The research results said that the drug TSA could increase the number of CG/LH receptors in the smooth muscles of the uterus. However the researchers feel that there is a research need to...

New treatment for babies with sickle cell anemia

...xyurea had shown good results when administered to babies with sickle cell// anemia. Sickle cell anemia is ...esearch Hospital, US, have found out that treating babies with sickle cell anemia with administration of oral liquid hydroxyurea can prevent some of the compl...

Low birth weight in babies may mean health risk for fathers

...d analyzed the association between birth weight of babies and their parent’s rate of mortality by looking in...nverse association between the birth weight of the babies and risk of cardiovascular diseases in the fathers. The researchers have accounted for the result as...

Pomegranate juice to check fetal brain injury

...e can prevent the condition of hypoxia ischemia in babies if their mothers have the juice when they are carr...plications during pregnancy, and brain injuries to babies born pre-term or before completing 34 weeks gestation. Hypoxia ischemia brain injury can have far re...

Sleep Not Critical For Early Brain Development Of Baby Dolphins

...nent of mammal’s daily life and more so of newborn babies who in their first month of // gestation are known to sleep for over 18 hours. However, it is different with some of the mammals living in the sea. It has been reported in Nature that newborn bottlenose dolphins and killer whales are wake most of the...

Inhaled nitric oxide therapy does not reduce death risk of infants

...rchers for the study are of opinion that premature babies who weigh less than 1.5kgs need not be given inhal...erapy is effective for treating lung infections in babies who are born after a full term pregnancy. This treatment makes the blood vessels in the body more ef...

Sharing a bed with infants may raise the risk for SIDS

... parents who share their beds// with their newborn babies can unknowingly increase the risk of SIDS for thei...rted in Scotland between 1996 and 2000, 52% of the babies had shared a bed or a couch for some point of time during the day or the night they had died. 72% of...

Mercy killing for newborn with incurable disease in Netherlands

Newborn babies with severe incurable disease can opt for mercy killing// in Netherlands. New born babies with incurable disease and with severe suffering may have the choice of mercy killing in Dutch. The ...

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