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Stem Cells- a Miraculous Boon

...n Francisco. He added that stem cells derived from fetal tissue (as opposed to developing embryos) are currently being tested as a cure for a rare metabolic disorder, Battens disease. Embryonic stem cells are a different matter. So far no medical treatments are available. Current research, however, is exp...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...ilies claim that their children are suffering from fetal anti-convulsant syndrome because their mothers too...h have shown valproate poses an increased risk for fetal death and birth defect.” Yet, Ingrid Burns of the British Epilepsy Association adopts a middle pat...

Now Sex Determination of Fetuses in Six Weeks in UK

... gender testing and is the discovery that there is fetal DNA in an expectant mother’s blood as soon as six weeks gestation all the way through to delivery of the child. During pregnancy, small amounts of the baby’s DNA pass into the mother’s blood stream; so with a finger prick from the mother, we can anal...

Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...n recommend that late termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly should be preceded by feticide, but any clinician who injected a similar severely malformed newborn baby with potassium chloride moments after birth would be guilty of murder. The report of the Nuffield Council of Bioethics, published after...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

... equipments at St Mary's, especially ones like the fetal heart monitors; it appeared that such equipments were managed by borrowing from other maternity wards. Admitting to the loopholes at maternity units, a spokesman from a particular hospital said, "On occasions, there have been some instances when we...

Diabetes The Leveler-Sweeping Across Nations

...ians. There are other studies that show that low fetal nutrition could also cause the problems. ``Most pregnant women probably did not have a balanced nutrition. This is probably one reason why thin people, both a mother and her child, have diabetes,'' says Dr Mohan. NN/M...

Dangerous Side Effects of Tea Exposed

...hat drinking tea could cause chromosome damage and fetal leukemia, reported the online edition of The Washington Times. Diet derived compounds are generally regarded as safe, based on their long history of use in the diet or as traditional medicines. But the phytochemicals, which are compounds in plan...

PFOA and PFOS Detected in Newborns

...previously there was very little information about fetal exposure to PFOS and PFOA. Even though these chemicals are not bioaccumulative in fat, they are very persistent, which probably accounts for their presence in nearly every newborn,” said Benjamin Apelberg, PhD, lead author of the study and a researc...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

...der in pregnancy, adversely affecting maternal and fetal health.// Despite several national programmes targeted at control and treatment of anemia during pregnancy, the success has not been as anticipated, since the majority of women present late. Poor nutritional status and anemia in pregnancy have con...

Aborted Babies Survive, a British Study Says

...stetricians and Gynaecologist's guidance, that the fetal heart is stopped before a medical induction abortion around 22 weeks' gestation." But understandably the so-called pro-Life activists are agitated. Julia Millington of the pro-life group Alive and Kicking Campaign contended that the rates found...

Male Child Birth Dropping in US and Japan

...at of whites. In addition, blacks have a higher fetal mortality rate, and male black babies are more likely to die than females. “Given the higher mortality rates for African-American males in the United States, these results re-emphasize the need to determine all factors, including environmental cont...

Multivitamins Improve Birth Outcomes Among Children Born With HIV

...nt effects observed on the risks of prematurity or fetal death. Birth weight is directly influenced by a...trients that are essential for maternal health and fetal and infant growth and survival. In a previous study by Fawzi and colleagues among HIV-positive pregn...

Weight Gain in Pregnancy Linked to Overweight in Kids

...the intrauterine environment, not only influencing fetal growth but also possibly resulting in persistent programming of child weight. "Because childhood obesity is increasing in prevalence and effective treatment remains elusive, preventing childhood obesity remains critical," says Oken. "The IOM may ne...

New Placenta Screening for High-risk Pregnancies

...women in the study, 19 delivered early due to poor fetal growth. None of these women had normal placental function test results. Likewise, only two of 22 stillbirths occurred in women with normal tests, and these losses were not related to abnormal placental function. This data demonstrates that the placen...

Web Page to Warn Against Online Purchase of Isotretinoin

...ts in expectant mothers, such as birth defects and fetal death, and also might cause depression and suicide. FDA data released in 2004 showed that these measures had little effect on the number of pregnant women taking the drug. The FDA began to register physicians, prescription drug wholesalers, pharm...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...n rats, neural progenitor cells derived from human fetal stem cells have been shown to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that afflict humans. The new study appears today (March 28) in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. The lead aut...

Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Rescuing Deteriorating Vision

...n rats, neural progenitor cells derived from human fetal stem cells have been shown to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye disease similar to the kinds of diseases that afflict humans. The lead author of the study, University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher David Gamm, says the cells -...

Now Scientists Create a Sheep That's 15% Human

...t Prof Zanjani said: 'Transplanting the cells into fetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all.' Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Babies and Drinks Don’t Mi

... Health officials warn of subsequent risks such as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) characterized by mental ret...ng. It is unclear how many children suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome, as brain damage can be related to a number of disorders. But the World Health Orga...

Risk of Birth Complications Varies Between Racial Groups

...ons in gestational length and argue that increased fetal surveillance and growth monitoring from 40, rather than 41, weeks’ gestation is needed for South Asian and black women. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

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