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First Conclusive Evidence Linking Oral Bacteria To Premature Babies

...luid using new DNA finger-printing techniques. The mother did not have periodontal disease. "If periodontal disease is not present, then this raises more questions about how the bacteria got into the amniotic fluid," said Han. Akihiko Ikegami, Nabil Bissada and Raymond Redline from Case and Graham Ashmead a...

Shangai Citizens to Monitor Billboards

... her skin. The ad gave the boy nightmares, and his mother complained to the consumer commission but to no avail. Xu Hong, director of the Shanghai Advertisement Monitoring Centre, said that while some complaints have been raised, the problem of offensive advertising was not a large one. The advisory cou...

Rubella- a Thing of the Past in US

...and congenital heart disease when transmitted by a mother to her fetus. The early 1960s saw more than 11,000 fetal deaths due to rubella and about 20,000 infants with congenital rubella syndrome. Since then, a more effective vaccine, developed in the 1970s has helped to eliminate the transmission of rubella...

Anti-depressants may cause stillbirth

...suicide, which can all have devastating effects on mother and baby." Whilst this study has found a correlation between SSRIs and pregnancy complications, it has in no way confirmed a clear causal effect between the two. The researchers said women using these anti-depressants should be fully briefed abou...

Free Herceptin Treatment for Those Who Live Over the Welsh Border

...ory MP Owen Paterson pleading with him to help her mother obtain the drug. Mr Paterson said that it is a very sad plight for the women in Shropshire because despite them regularly paying their tax they had to raise huge sums of money, while women two miles away in Wales are getting the drug in the same h...

Yellow Oleander Plants Fuels Suicide Rates In Sri Lanka

...ow oleander seed. "I remember one girl said her mother wanted her to get up and do the shopping. She said no, her mother scolded her and she took a yellow oleander seed." Eddleston claims that there is no treatment ava...

Call For Blood Donation In Scotland

...nsured that he lived and grew stronger. //Even his mother Donna Morgan who developed pneumonia and anemia af... be given blood transfusions to recover. Now the mother and baby are back home and in gratitude to those who helped them, they are launching a campaign to f...

Delay Umbilical Cord Clamping in Pre Term Babies

... after birth and the babies were lowered below the mother to help them get their blood more quickly. In the study, Mercer found that the infants in the delayed cord clamping group had significantly lower rates of intraventricular hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain) and blood infections, which occur more t...

Kannada Superstar Dr. Rajkumar's Eyes Donated As Per His Wish

...s movies have always carried a social message. The mother was given the highest place in practically every movie. So were good values, ethics, Kannada culture and patriotism. He had enjoyed a larger-than-life image among the people of Karnataka as he always played the role of an ordinary good man. But unl...

Sensing The Health Hazard MP3 Makers Tone Down The Volume

... 'Not so loud,'" says Manks, who does not take her mother very seriously. A lot of students use their MP3 players like Manks. More than half her classmates have one of the devices, which can hold thousands of songs in digital format. Many of her classmates do not even turn their players off during class p...

Parents Need Guidance to Broach the Subject of Cancer with Their Children

...on. The interaction revealed that, even before the mother was diagnosed, children seemed to have knowledge about the implications of cancer as a life threatening affliction. The children seemed to have gathered the inputs from television soap operas, health campaigns, and celebrities, as well as from the ...

Where Mother's Skin Turns Into Food For Offspring

...eating its mother's flesh. The doting limbless mother transforms its skin into a nourishing, fat-rich meal for its newborns to eat, they say. There's nothing (in the animal kingdom) that peels off the skin and eats big chunks of it like these things are doing, Wilkinson said. The team says the off...

Paralyzed Girl Pardons Her Offender

...ll hear the pitter patter of her feet, Kai Leigh's mother Tonya David, a devoted Christian, was quoted as saying. The paralysis is likely to keep the girl in a wheelchair for her lifetime. David said she tried to hate Warrant, but she couldn’t. There is no place for bitterness in her family, which showed ...

Older child’s dominance in intelligence over; younger siblings not far behind

...ffect the child-rearing environment. The younger a mother was at the birth of her first child, the lower we would expect intelligence scores to be within a family," Wichman said. Results of the study are:- "Birth order may appear to be associated with intelligence, but that's only because larger families...

Reverse Heart Transplant Surgery On A Little Girl Makes History

...n size and threaten to fail within a year. Clark’s mother Elizabeth said surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London were initially reluctant to remove the donor heart and reconnect the dormant one it had never been done before. They later then agreed to undertake the procedure with the help of Sir M...

Childbirth On Road Drew Public Attention In West Bengal

...s also informed. According to reports, both the mother - who has been readmitted to the Siuri hospital - and the child are keeping well. Edited IANS...

Concerns About Popular Anti-Ulcer Pill Used For Inducing Labor

...he uterus, which could be life-threatening to both mother and fetus. The history of misoprostol use for induction of labor in full-term pregnancies has been complicated by the fact that the drug is also used for termination of first-trimester pregnancies, routinely used in combination with RU-486, the so-...

Limiting milk can hamper Babies’ Growt

...rowth in addition to transporting calcium from the mother during pregnancy to the developing baby through th... of dairy products as a part of a healthy diet for mother and baby. The book suggests that at least one portion of milk, cheese or yoghurt be consumed every d...

WHO Updates Outdated Pediatric Growth Charts

...r up to 12 months or even longer should either the mother or the child so desires. Breastfeeding is known to offer many health benefits to the babies for their later lives....

Imran Khan Plans To Open Second Cancer Hospital In Karachi

...of-the-art cancer centre was Khan's tribute to his mother Shaukat Khanum, who died of cancer. Khan, who heads the Shaukat Khanam Memorial Trust and has striven to gather funds for the project since the past nine years, said in Karachi that work would begin later this year. The American architect who ha...

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