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Obesity, diabetes in pregnant women affects babies

...outcomes // - primary caesarean delivery, pre-term birth and low birth-weight (LBW)- by racial, or ethnic g...ed data from the 1999, 2000 and 2001 New York City birth files for 329,988 singleton births that included information on the mother's pre-pregnancy weight an...

Percutaneous aortic valve replacement- a revolution in Cardiac Surgery

... in the same. The defect can be present right form birth or it can be acquired as a result of other diseases. This cardiac defect can be corrected by a surgical technique called aortic valve replacement that greatly increases the life expectancy of the patients. Nearly 200,000 patients undergo surgical v...

Dietary supplementation of Folic Acid Requires Critical Evaluation

...ic acid could significantly reduce the risk of the birth defects. The natural form of the vitamin is found in green leafy vegetables, whole grains and citrus fruits, although it is less easily absorbed. In addition, folic acid has been shown to reduce blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that appear...

Folic acid enriched grain reduces birth defects

...ood with folic acid as found to reduce the rate of birth defects. Results of the research published in the ... Pediatrics have found that more than one third of birth defects are reduced by enriching flours, rice and pastas with folic acid.// Spina bifida and anencep...

Safe Neighborhood Means Less TV For Preschool Children

... the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a birth cohort study of nearly 5,000 children born in 20 large U.S. cities from 1998 to 2000. A follow-up study collected data from approximately 3,330 mothers when their children were three years old. Almost two-thirds of the children watched more than tw...

Nanotechnology Revolution To Be Spearheaded By European Union

...y around the world every year. Nanosciences is the birth of a new medical technology which augments various fields of physics, chemistry, mechanics, biology and electronics offering better treatment options at an affordable cost. Nanotechnology works by activating small and tiny particles present in the ...

Cryopreservation of Ovaries for Cancer patients undergoing treatment

...be implanted back into them and the women can give birth a child. This Cryopreservation technique not only useful for women undergoing cancer treatment it will be also useful in organ transplants storage, which is now required to be done with in hours of donation. "There is a lot of research still to be do...

Going Down The Social Ladder Increases The Chances Of Male Depression.

...ny women as men reported downward mobility between birth and 50 years of age. But while a woman’s risk of depression in mid life was strongly linked to social class at birth, this was not the case for men. By the age of 50, downwardly mobile men were over three and a half times as likely to be depressed ...

Risk Of Pre-eclampsia May Be In The Genes Of The Parents.

...both mother and child. Researchers in Norway used birth registry data to study whether men and women who are born after pre-eclamptic pregnancies pass on this risk to the next generation, compared with those who had no family history of pre-eclampsia. They found that daughters of women who had pre-eclamp...

Minor Improvement In Child Sex Ratio In Haryana

...could be due to the strengthening of system of the birth and death registration at primary health centres instead of the earlier procedure of doing it at police stations. Moreover, civil surgeons were directed to keep a watch on the sex ratio in their districts so that a decline, if any, could be curbed. ...

Familial Breast cancer without gene mutation not found to cause ovarian cancer.

...istory of breast cancer, smoking, late first child birth and menopausal status. Ovarian cancer is also the leading cause of gynecological cancer deaths. Women should be aware of the risk of cancer and should do early assessment for cancer detection, apart from BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes other genes may also po...

Wisdom Teeth: To Be Or Not To Be?

...ound the area and has a significant risk of giving birth to pre-term babies. It is a well-documented fact that gum disease is indirectly linked to coronary artery disease, stroke, kidney disease and obstetric complications. And since the third molars are a reservoir of bacteria due to their crooked posit...

Winter Premature Babies Face Threat From Lung Disease

...risk factors for severe RSV infection include: low birth weight, multiple birth, family history of asthma, severe neuromuscular disease, congenital abnormalities in the airways, school-age siblings, day care attendance (CDC definition: two or more unrelated children together for four or more hours a week),...

Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India

... its global operations because it” has the largest birth count in the world,” and its one billion plus population is genetically diverse enough to match the genetic characteristics of people worldwide. The bank plans to collect 400,000 units of umbilical cord blood in three years. By creating similar banks...

Amoxicillin use in infancy linked to dental fluorosis in later life

...ent teeth. Overall, they tracked 579 children from birth to 32 months and ensured that these kids had used amoxicillin at some point in thier short life. The researchers found that around 24 percent of the children developed dental fluorosis, a condition that causes brownish flecks or stains on the enamel ...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

...owards reducing anti-convulsant medication related birth defects. The Epilepsy Foundation began its outreach about the effects of anticonvulsants on women in the mid-1990s with an initiative to educate women with epilepsy and their physicians about emerging links between seizures, menstrual cycles and ot...

Stem cell therapy for developing new trachea using Tissue engineering

...chnique of tissue engineering is used for altering birth defects. Undifferentiated stem cell from amniotic fluid, which is collected during pregnancy, is used for producing the required cells. Mesenchymal stem cells descend directly from embryonic stem cells and are abundant in the amniotic fluid. They spe...

Gum Disease Increases Chances Of Pre-Term Birth

... depth of pockets around the gum area. Premature birth is defined as birth before 37 weeks of gestation. "It is pretty well accepted that chronic inflammation is a health risk...

Birth Defects Caused By Acne Medication Can Be Minimized By Voluntary Pregnancy Prevention

...e drug in pregnant women reveals that it can cause birth defects//. In view of the potential risks, the U.S... stated requirements regarding pregnancy tests and birth control. A survey was conducted among 34 women who became pregnant while taking isotretinoin. Thes...

Whole-body hypothermia reduces risk of death in Encephalopathy in infants

...thermia. Infants were randomized within 6 hours of birth and all had either severe acidosis, or perinatal complications and resuscitation at birth. All had moderate to severe encephalopathy. During the study, infants were randomly assigned to usual care (control group) or whole-body cooling to an esophag...

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