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Breastfeeding may decrease Breast Cancer Risk

...decrease for every birth regardless of whether the mother ever breastfed. Valerie Beral, one of the researchers in the study, says, "The results of this study are a major step forward in our understanding of why breast cancer is so common in developed countries." Researchers say the incidence of breast can...

Mental illness a key factor in suicide

... who have had a parent commit suicide, those whose mother died early, or those who have a history of mental illness in the family, including the individual, their parents or their siblings. The study also shows males are three and a half times more likely to commit suicide than females and the number of sui...

Barcodes to become newborns' ID

.../ mothers, are stored in electronic barcodes which mother and baby wear on their wrists. The barcodes also contain other information, including the mother's details and information about the doctors present at the birth. In effect, they act as an ID card for the child and in case of a doubt about identity o...

An Indian Bride with signs of SARS

...porting the symptoms. Within hours on monday, his mother and sister were also confirmed to have the highly contagious respiratory illness. Even though the bride was taken away from the Methodist church in Pune immediately after the ceremony, all were kept in isolation in a hospital. Approximately 25 gues...

Treatment for Sars patients refused

...fected patients. The patients include a bride, her mother and her brother who had flown in for the ceremony from Indonesia via Singapore. There were also people who attended the wedding, who were quarantined later to check if they developed symptoms of the disease. //The hospital staff were panic striken fo...

Baby born to SARS mother is healthy

...mothers died after giving birth, but the surviving mother was in a stable condition in PrincessMargaret Hospital, the statement added....

Y chromosome uses trick to repair its own genes

... inherited in pairs, with one member coming from a mother and the other from a father. That pairing lets them swap corresponding pieces of themselves, a mechanism that lets the species get rid of damaged genes. But the Y chromosome comes by itself. It can't trade appreciable amounts of DNA with its partne...

Death Among the Homeless

...father die before turning 17, and 11 percent had a mother die before turning 17....

Test tube babies, 25 years later

...ocedure that involves retrieving the eggs from the mother and mixing them in the lab with sperm from the father. The resulting embryo is then placed back into the mother's uterus to develop normally until delivery.// IVF is usually the treatment of choice for a woman with blocked or absent fallopian tubes, ...

Detect masses in the breast

... keep her concerned about her health. “My mother’s mother died at the age of 32 of a female disease," Pistelli says. "Then my mother had breast cancer. Then, 10 years later, she got ovarian cancer.” Both Pistelli and her sisters kno...

Reducing HIV Transmission

... onset and every three hours until delivery to the mother and twice daily to their infants for seven days. The current study followed the infants up to 18 months of age. Results showed the 8.2-percent reduction in HIV transmission that was seen for infants on nevirapine at six to eight weeks in the origina...

Drugs said to Reduce HIV Transmission to Baby

...h is effective at preventing HIV transmission from mother to child. The therapy was used because the babies'...ncluded 1,100 babies of African women in which the mother did not know she was HIV-positive until about two hours before delivery. The babies were randomly gi...

Changing Partners may put Expectant Mothers at Risk

...ound that, for second births, the more education a mother has, the less likely she is to lose her baby during its first of life -- even if a woman changed partners. Pre-term birth and low birth weight were less common in women with more education, but only if they had the same partner. However, a high level...

Low Protein Levels A Possible Indicator For A Miscarriage

...stem and is found in high concentrations between a mother and her fetus during pregnancy. Researchers in Australia investigated whether the levels of MIC1 are associated with a miscarriage. The research included 300 pregnant women who gave a blood sample during the first trimester of pregnancy. Researcher...

Few Simple Steps to Lower The Incidence Of SIDS

...ng had covered their heads or if they slept with a mother who smoked or drank alcohol, especially in the first two weeks of life. However, among mothers who did not smoke during pregnancy, the risk associated with bed-sharing was significant only in infants younger than 8 weeks. Interestingly, about 36 pe...

Drug to stop HIV spread to babies may Indirectly harm The Mother

... suggest a potentially important trade-off for the mother that could complicate her later treatment, if it is available. Earlier studies had suggested that the single dose of the drug might make the virus impervious to later treatment, but until now there has been no clear evidence whether the theoretical r...

Can Calcium Help Reduce Weight?

...smaller -- by promoting weight loss ,// so if your mother always told you to drink your milk so you can grow bigger, she may have been wrong. Participants in the study who consumed more calcium lost more weight. Researchers say if the body consumes enough calcium, a breakdown of fat occurs. However, if t...

Controlling Asthma during Pregnancy

...control their asthma during pregnancy because if a mother has a severe asthma attack, it can result in reduced oxygen to the baby, which is needed for normal growth and development....

Identifying The Risks Of Developing Schizophrenia

...ing the infant is exposed to the virus because the mother has contracted the disease leads to an increased risk of schizophrenia. Most of these studies have relied on the mother’s memory of infection or tried to link the two conditions by looking at people who were born during major flu epidemics -- leaving...

Mother’s Diet Could Prevent Cancer In Their Unborn Children

... nutritional factors has a lot to do with what the mother eats and they also say that their findings show how vital it is that women hoping to get pregnant, as well as expectant mothers, understand that critical nutrients in vegetables, fruit and foods containing protein, such as meat, fish beans and nuts, ...

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