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Sharing a bed with infants may raise the risk for SIDS

...rease the risk of SIDS for their children. Sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS is one of the major reasons of infant mortality for infants in the age group of one month to a year. SIDS is a disorder that seems to have...

Warning Signs On Powered Baby Milk

...ome estimated that the poisoning from contaminated infant formula is particularly serious in developing coun...be forced to put health warnings on the package of infant formula, which they said would cause unnecessary alarm. Source: WHO...

Revolutionary Simple Pregnancy Blood Test Can Save Both Mother And Child

...gnancy and is a major cause of death of mother and infant in the world. Now a simple test that measures HLA-G levels in blood can predict women who are likely to develop the problem. Researchers in Canada may have discovered this simple blood test. "We're really excited about this finding," said Clifford ...

Prime Minister Manmohan Against Incentive-Based Population Control

...old age care system with a focused drive to reduce infant mortality. "Empowerment of women and a holistic approach to reproductive and child care will enable this to happen and I would want greater attention to be paid to this aspect," he said. "In addition to giving focused attention to the welfare of ...

Healthy At 50: Possible?

...e led a research team that found that prenatal and infant factors explained less than five percent of the variation in insulin resistance. However, adult lifestyle and body fat explained 22 percent of insulin resistance in men and 34 percent in women. This is a breakthrough in epidemiological investigatio...

Vitamin Supplements During Pregnancy to Boost Fetal Development

...status in early pregnancy has been linked with low infant birth weight. It is particularly to be noted that babies with low birth weight -- 5.5 pounds (2.5 kg) or less -- are more likely to have a low IQ and to suffer from health and developmental problems later in life. The study also found that women wh...

Pause as you please

...ess to good nutrition, reliable contraception, and infant formulas, spent far more of their lives either pregnant or breastfeeding. This meant they probably had only 40 periods over the course of their lifetime, compared to the 300 to 400 most modern women experience....

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...were between 2 and 5 days old. For the study, each infant was seated on a researcher's lap in front of a vid... screen: one with her gaze directly pointed at the infant and one with her gaze averted. Researchers initially caught the infants' attention by turning on a...

New Blood Test To Detect Iron Level In Infants

...nt are critical because iron deficiency can impair infant mental development, possibly permanently, even before it progresses to anemia (clinically identified as a low hemoglobin level). The study, done at Children’s Hospital Boston, is the first to compare the test, called CHr, with the standard hemoglob...

Amnioinfusion does not reduce risk of meconium aspiration syndrome

...meconium is highly irritating to the lung when the infant takes its first breaths. It can cause a partial or complete blockage of the baby's airways when exhaling, making it difficult to breathe. Meconium alters the amniotic fluid, reducing antibacterial activity and subsequently increasing the risk of p...

European Countries To Fund $4 Billion For Vaccination For Poor Children’

...eaders to meet the Millennium Development Goals on infant mortality," he told a news conference, referring to United Nations targets to cut child mortality by two thirds by 2015. Brown launched the more modest scheme with his counterparts from France, Italy, Spain and Sweden. He said the Europeans were enco...

Children With Facial Anomalies Are Affected By Parental Tensions

... study suggests that the stress of parenting an // infant with a craniofacial anomaly (CFA) leads to adverse... study looked at this stress and how it related to infant and toddler development. Researchers found a reciprocal relationship between parenting stress and ch...

Medical Fraternity Urged To Revamp Indian Healthcare

...h indicators are among the worst in the world. Our infant mortality rates, our maternal mortality rates and the incidence of easily controlled diseases and epidemics are unfortunately among the worst in the world." "I request all those connected with the planning of health services in our country, those w...

PM announces a new health care order for India

...se Encephalitis. Besides this the atrociously high infant mortality rates, maternal mortality rates haven’t helped in putting India in a good position for the latest human development report of the United Nations. This has finally awakened the Indian governments, who have realized that a lot more has to...

Amoxicillin use in infancy linked to dental fluorosis in later life

...researchers found that using amoxicillin to combat infant ear infections caused sever damage to the developing permanent 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 ...

Resilin Protein from Flea can be used for cardiovascular disease

...sease and expressed that though the research is in infant stage, but exploring the elasticity property from flea can benefit humans. Professor Greenhalgh said drug therapies, such as using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications like aspirin, had shown promise in stalling the loss of elasticity in the...

Booster dose not required for Hepatitis B Vaccination

...ecommends that all countries should have universal infant or adolescent hepatitis B vaccination integrated i...concentrations of antibodies. The study shows that infant and adolescent immune systems can recall responding to hepatitis B more than 10 years after immuniza...

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

...ed to 5° C. An esophageal probe was placed and the infant was covered with a second cooling blanket. Esophageal and skin temperatures were monitored every 15 min for four hours, then every hour for next eight hours, and finally every four hours for the remainder of the cooling period. Infants in the control...

Plump Infants Getting Obese Later In Life In More Cases

...ld begin. This study examines the relation between infant size and growth and later obesity. Researchers an...sed 24 studies which assessed the relation between infant size and growth and the development of obesity at any later age. They found that the heaviest infant...

TWO India Doctors Listed in TIME for Contribution to Global Health

...// innovated basic programs, which has reduced the infant mortality rate in South Asia. The duo are the fo...versity was motivated to work for the reduction of infant deaths in India after seeing a baby die due to non-availability of emergency medical treatment in tr...

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