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Adolescents Exposed to Family Turmoil and Violence Face Stress-related Problems

...l Psychology. It is the first study to look at how maternal responsiveness may protect against cumulative risk as well as the first, according to the researchers, to look at cardiovascular recovery from stress in children or youths. Evans said that the findings suggest that the physiological toll of coping ...

Family Turmoil and Violence Results in Stress-induced Physical Problems in Young, Cornell Psychologist Finds

...l Psychology. It is the first study to look at how maternal responsiveness may protect against cumulative risk as well as the first, according to the researchers, to look at cardiovascular recovery from stress in children or youths. Evans said that the findings suggest that the physiological toll of coping ...

Ray of Hope for Women on Motherhood Day

From 407 in 1998 to 301 in 2006, the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) that marks the number of wom...to ensure safe motherhood, credits the decrease in maternal deaths to the government's increasing "mother friendly" policies. India registers one of the highe...

Multivitamins Improve Birth Outcomes Among Children Born With HIV

...ectly influenced by a number of factors, including maternal health, nutritional status and micronutrient defic...ber of other micronutrients that are essential for maternal health and fetal and infant growth and survival. In a previous study by Fawzi and colleagues among H...

Eat Apple During Pregnancy to Protect Baby from Asthma

...000 pregnant women and examined the effects of the maternal diet on airway development in more than 1,200 of their children five years later. Among a variety of foods consumed and recorded by the pregnant women, the researchers found that the children of mothers who ate apples had significantly reduced ris...

Weight Gain in Pregnancy Linked to Overweight in Kids

...gher postpartum weight retention and later risk of maternal obesity. In this study, 51 percent of women gained excessive weight, 35 percent gained adequate weight, and 14 percent gained inadequate weight, according to the IOM guidelines. Women with adequate or excessive gain were approximately four times m...

New Placenta Screening for High-risk Pregnancies

... lead to conditions such as preeclampsia, which is maternal high blood pressure, stillbirth or the need for a ...re-term delivery. The screening tests include: a maternal serum screening test used to detect Down’s syndrome, which measures the hormone levels in the mother...

Pregnant Women Expecting Sons Will Do Well to Avoid Beef

...n Reproduction, said: "These findings suggest that maternal beef consumption is associated with lower sperm concentration and possible sub-fertility, associations that may be related to the presence of anabolic steroids and other xenobiotics in beef. Theoretically, the fetus and young children are particularl...

Triple ARV Prophylaxis Reduces Viral Load in Breast Milk

...nd breast milk and suggest there may be a role for maternal HAART prophylaxis as a means to reduce breastfeedi...c studies and further data on the infant safety of maternal HAART. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Rajasthan Launches Programs to Overcome Misconceptions About Childbirth

Jaipur: With a view to combating the high maternal mortality rate and empowering the women, the Rajasthan government Friday launched a program// that is expected to tackle some common misconceptions and taboos related to childbirth. Along with state's Health Minister Digamber Singh, the emergency c...

For ADHD Children, Mother’s Depression, Predict Conduct Problem

... the findings led the researchers to conclude that maternal depression may be a risk factor, whereas positive parenting may be a protective factor. “This research gives us clear targets for early intervention to prevent conduct problems in children with ADHD,” says Andrea Chronis, director of the Universi...

Harmful Effects Of Glucocorticoids On Newborns Owing To Prenatal Exposure

...ther the administration of dexamethasone or severe maternal stress) has long-lasting deleterious effects. In t...at both repeated glucocorticoid therapy and severe maternal stress late in gestation are likely to have long-term deleterious effects on developing human fetuse...

Girls With Early Puberty at Greater Risk for Drugs, Sex, Alcohol

...aid Carolyn Tucker Halpern, associate professor of maternal and child health in the UNC School of Public Health. “Those who mature early are known to be at higher risk for these problems. But within that group, girls who have an older boyfriend appear to be at an extra risk for multiple high-risk behaviors su...

Proteins in Microparticles Identified in Women With Preeclampsia

...d "microparticles" released by the placenta damage maternal blood vessels. Researchers at Yale School of Medic...ed by the placenta may contain factors that damage maternal blood vessels in preeclampsia," said Guller, associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gy...

Mothers in African Study Undereducated on Diarrhea

..., including socio-economic level, child nutrition, maternal hand-washing hygiene and latrine and water use. The goal, he said, was to “identify those determinants that could be modified by mothers to reduce morbidity associated with diarrhea.” Mediratta then trained 13 health facilitators at a local clinic ...

Indian Doctors Headed to Lahore to Take Part in Gynecology Conference

...f the region share common problems, with very high maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Every minute there's a death due to pregnancy complications. Only 34 percent of births in the region get skilled help, said Malhotra. Source-IANS...

Certain Drug Treatment Associated With Orofacial Clefts

...rds, particularly prenatal logbooks, retrospective maternal data via a self-reported questionnaire, and home visits to non-responding mothers. An increased risk for isolated CL/P was found in cases born to mothers treated with amoxicillin, phenytoin, oxprenolol, and thiethylperazine during the second and th...

Excessive TV Viewing Linked to Poor Eating Habits in Children

...rchers controlled for possible confounders such as maternal sociodemographic factors and parental body mass index (a measure of degree of overweight). Of the 1,203 children, 87 percent came from families with incomes greater than $40,000/year and 72 percent of their mothers had at least a college degree, rese...

Ashley Judd to Visit Jaipur for HIV Cause

...activities in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and maternal and child health.// The star of such thrillers a...fields of reproductive health, HIV prevention, and maternal and child health. It harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of ...

Allocation for Health, Education Not Enough: UN Official

...owering women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other dise...are stunted at growth. "Hunger, malnutrition and maternal mortality - these are the issues India need to address on an urgent basis if it has to move up the h...

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