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Flash-heating Inactivates HIV in Breast Milk: Study

... Abrams, UC Berkeley professor of epidemiology and maternal and child health, and senior author on the study. Banks that collect, store and dispense human milk already pasteurize milk, but the method they commonly use requires thermometers and timers that may be hard to obtain in resource-poor communities. ...

Exposure to Smoking in Prenatal Stage Increases ADHD Risk in Children

...ys authors. "These data highlight a new risk of maternal smoking, increasing the risk for ADHD in their children. ADHD, in turn, increases the risk for substance abuse. Thus, it appears that in utero exposure to nicotine may help to perpetuate a cycle across generations that links addiction and behavioural...

Labor's Indigenous Health Plan A Good Start

...aid Labors commitment of $112 million to child and maternal health services was particularly welcome. Indigenous babies are twice as likely as non-Indigenous babies to be born at an unhealthily low weight, which often leads to long-term health problems, he said. Helping to improve their birth weights will...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

...arch Center; Sandra L. Martin, Ph.D., professor of maternal and child health at the UNC School of Public Healt...d Deborah A. Gibbs, adjunct assistant professor of maternal and child health at the UNC School of Public Health. Marshall, Martin, and Casteel are all closely a...

International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

...lls for Action' mostly addressed issues related to maternal mortality and morbidity. Since the late 1990s, the...on' include: * The persistence of high rates of maternal death in recent decades, which often are related to a general worsening of women's health status, to...

The Global Health Council Announces Launch of Global Health TV

...aria, tuberculosis, poor health system support and maternal and child health issues. "Global Health TV helps us share information about the critical health issues of our times," said Dr. Nils Daulaire, president of the Global Health Council. "In a world where health and diseases know no borders, it's import...

Obesity Risk Greater For Children Of Overweight Or Single Parents

...nd that family conflict, negative life events, and maternal depression are not likely to have an impact on whe...said. The association between childrens weight, maternal BMI [body mass index] and family structure confirms the need to find ways of targeting prevention an...

Pregnant Mom's Exposure to Flu Vaccine Benefits Fetal Immune System

...cord blood B and T cell immune responses following maternal vaccination against influenza with Fluzone during ...ell responses to antigens occur in utero following maternal vaccination against influenza, supporting the theory that the human neonatal immune system is not de...

Antibiotic Use in Infants may Lead to Asthma.

... neighborhood income, number of siblings at age 7, maternal history of asthma, and pets reported living in the home. Within the study group, 6 percent of children had current asthma at age 7, while 65 percent of children had received at least one antibiotic prescription during the first year of life. Of th...

DNA Link to a Lost Colony

...n from possible ancestors to test the paternal and maternal DNA lines. "In our case, with the Lost Colony, the only way we're going to trace who was who and if they survived is to use DNA," Estes said. While DNA will not make any immediate connections beyond living relatives, the samples can provide clues t...

Selection of Best X Chromosome in Women

...e. The mechanism means equal numbers of both the maternal and paternal X chromosome are preserved in the gene pool and the resultant population thus has more chance of surviving any biological threat targeted at a single version of the X chromosome....

Lizard Mothers Dress Their Progeny to Ensure Success in Later Life

...ies, and predators. According to Lancaster, the maternal effect on back pattern is significant because cont...for these traits, and it's really hard to tell the maternal effects apart from the effects of the genes,' he said. Lancaster began by treating side-blotched l...

Plants Have the Ability to Recognize Kin

...our. The plants either had specimens from the same maternal family or from several different families. After two months, it was noted that plants grown with strangers had a greater mass of roots after than those sharing pots with siblings. The researchers, however, have yet to find out the mechanism by wh...

WHO Intensifies Work on Safe Blood for Mothers

...g childbirth, making this the most common cause of maternal mortality. Severe bleeding during delivery or af...ter childbirth contributes to around 34 percent of maternal deaths in Africa, 31 percent in Asia and 21 percent in Latin America and the Caribbean. As pregna...

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...o Parkinsons disease decades later in life, subtle maternal health factors also could alter brain wiring and p... to the disease. The researchers say effects of maternal health on the risk of Parkinsons disease should be explored in future studies. Until now, environmen...

Breastfeeding and Omega-3 Fatty Acids Help New Moms Fight Depression

...ding to Kendall-Tackett. "Breastfeeding protects maternal mood by lowering stress. When stress levels are lower, the mother's inflammatory response system will not be activated, thereby lowering her risk of depression," she said. "However positive these results, I must issue one caveat: they only apply when...

Priority Needs to Be Given to Maternal Health in Afghanistan

...health in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world. More endeavors are ne...quity and women's empowerment and also promote the maternal and reproductive health of the women. Work is also needs to be done for HIV prevention. Enhancemen...

Bed Nets - A Formidable Weapon Against Malaria In Africa

... many women who are pregnant and results in severe maternal anemia and reduced birth weight in children."But we simply didn't have the definitive answers because a lot of the clinical trials themselves were not large enough to be able to answer this question." This latest study drew on the results of four e...

Cough Up More for the Health of Afghan Women, UNFPA Urges

...hanistan, is also infamous with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. //Afghanistan has at...o improve the lot of women to include empowerment, maternal health and prevention of AIDS/HIV. The chief of UNFPA is of the opinion that the contribution of wom...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

...medical disorder 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 pregnanc...

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