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The Dangers Of Vitamin A To Pregnant Women To Be Included On Label

... vitamin A can cause development defects in unborn babies but many women do not consider the vitamin's presence in most multivitamin supplements say researchers based on a recent survey. The survey conducted by Oxfordshire brand of the UK's Trading Standards has found a third of multivitamin products tested...

Premature Babies More Likely If Women Have Higher Protein Albumin In Urine

...um in the body) are more likely to have pre-mature babies according to a study. A simple, inexpensive test f...that may point to new, future treatments that help babies stay longer in the womb." Proteinuria or albuminuria is an early sign of kidney disease. It occu...

Exposure to tobacco smoke causes genetic damage in fetus

...the potential effects of tobacco smoke exposure to babies in the womb, one of which Grant co-authored. -(IANS)...

More News That Circumcision Could Reduce risk of HIV infection

...is. This extra skin is called foreskin. In newborn babies the under surface of the foreskin is fused to the head of penis. Because of this in 95% of newborn babies the foreskin can not be pulled back. This is referred to as ‘physiological phimosis’ or ‘non retract...

Neonatal Risk Of Death Is More For Babies Born At Night

...done the research, said that this risk is more for babies in their first month of life than later. Researche...archers had looked into the records of 3.3 million babies born in the state of California, US, from the period of 1992 to 1999. Their results show that ten pe...

Vitamin Supplements During Pregnancy to Boost Fetal Development

Low birth weight babies are likely to be born to mothers who have low leve...e associated with increased birth weight for their babies -- a marker for good health in infancy and later in life. On the other hand, low folate status in ea...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

...f their pregnancy// have a higher chance of having babies with low birth weight than anyone else. Researcher...Journal of Nutrition. About one in every thirteen babies have a chance of being of low birth weight and develop detrimental health conditions because of thei...

Breastfeeding Lowers Maternal Stress

...utritional. Doctors’ advice the mothers of newborn babies to only exclusively breast-feed their babies till they are of six-month age. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ p...

Breastfeeding Decline In Middle East Worries UN

...society. Compared to breastfed babies, formula-fed babies get sick more often and are more likely to die in ...utritional. Doctors’ advice the mothers of newborn babies to only exclusively breast-feed their babies till they are of six-month age. For more information ...

Hyaluronic Acid – A Boon To The Problem Of Premature Infant

...ing what prevents brain damage repair in premature babies and hence help treat prematurity. Identification of some of the key factors that also prevent brain damage repair in neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis has also ben made possible. A link was established between damage to white matter in ...

American scientists alter gene makeup of babies

...he journal reported on Friday that the first human babies whose genetic make-up had been artificially altered had been born.// Though the newborn babies were healthy, the technique, which led to their birth, has been condemned as unethical by some Briti...

Sympathy and brain function

...life. It may be linked to imitation, which we know babies do from a very early age. Researchers used positron emission tomography (PET) to explore the neural mechanisms of imitation by measuring increases in blood flow in the brain. In the study where researchers looked at imitation, they discovered a consi...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...eyes as they showed them the two photographs. The babies looked more often toward, and longer at, the images of faces looking directly at them than those with averted eyes, the researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition. In a second experiment, the researchers f...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

...rude measurement. It tells you very little because babies can reach the same birth weight by many different paths of growth. Barker at the University in England said that because of technology advances, people are able to study children who have had serial measurements of size in (the uterus) that follow t...

Vitamins Found To Influence Birth Weight

Seven per cent of all babies born are low birth weight (less than 2.4kg or 5.5l... UK, examined nearly 1,000 women and their newborn babies and found that women in early pregnancy with lower levels of Folate were more likely to have a light...

Donated Mothers Milk To Hit The Market

...nough milk available to give to not just premature babies but to children with cancer, heart conditions or A...rs' milk is generally believed to be healthier for babies and their long-term development, a recent study has raised questions about whether pasteurisation pu...

Early Screening For Hearing Impairments In Newborn Can Be Helpful

...K) and colleagues did an 8-year follow-up study of babies enrolled in the Wessex trial of universal newborn screening (UNS) for PCHI. In the latest study the researchers reviewed a group of 66 children aged between 7–9 years with bilateral PCHI that had undergone physiological screens of hearing soon after ...

Watch out those of you planning for a predetermined Cesarean Section

...nd the surrounding environment at birth. C-section babies have less bacterial exposure at birth, and therefore less resistance." Further study is needed to determine if C-section births can be linked to earlier acquisition of this and other oral bacteria in a broader cross-section of the population, and i...

Obesity, diabetes in pregnant women affects babies

...blic Health. Diabetes as a risk for low weight of babies also varies. Chronic diabetes increased the risk for low birth weight among Asians, Hispanics, and Whites. But it was not a significant predictor of low birth weight among Blacks. "In this population-based study, obesity and diabetes were independ...

Sodium nitrite salt intake found to increases blood flow

...er hopes to begin studies of nitrite treatment for babies with an often fatal disease called pulmonary hypertension. "It's so easy to use." Gladwin and an NIH cardiologist, Dr. Richard Cannon III, discovered the beneficial effects of nitrite's accidentally when working with its related compound nitric oxid...

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