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Alcoholism Influenced By Both Genetics & Family Environment

...iewing the twins’ children (ages 12 to 26) and the mothers of those children. Although there is little question in the medical community of hereditary transmission of alcoholism risk, there have been very few studies from this offspring-of-twins perspective. With this angle, the researchers hoped to gain i...

Few Simple Steps to Lower The Incidence Of SIDS

...lly 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 percent of the SIDS cases were attributed to the baby sleeping in a separate room from the parent...

Drugs Taken During Pregnancy Found To Affect Unborn Babies

...dy researchers studied 17 full-term newborns whose mothers had taken an SSRI during pregnancy and 17 similar infants whose mothers had not taken one of the drugs, assessing them for more subtle neurobehavioral differences. They fou...

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

... in Thailand, shows the potential consequence: The mothers who eventually need drug treatment for their infection are much less likely than usual to respond to it.In the United States and Europe, pregnant women with HIV are routinely given combinations of powerful AIDS drugs throughout their pregnancy. This ...

More Complications Seen In Women With Epilepsy

...th defects. They say it is better to get expectant mothers on a single medication that works to minimize side effects and risk. Thus researchers conclude that women with epilepsy need special care in managing their disorder....

The Effects Of Fish On Pregnant Women Questioned

...ren by eating oily fish. Results show asthmatic // mothers who ate oily fish, such as salmon and trout, durin...was to develop asthma. Children with non-asthmatic mothers did not benefit from having their mothers eat oily fish during pregnancy. However, mothers who ate ...

Leveling Lupus Lesions

...ter causing severe birth defects in babies born to mothers who used it. It's had few negative side effects in this group and one very positive effect on Gibson. "I don't have those lesions or the sores anymore. It makes me feel more confident about myself." Gibson says that makes the outside world a much fri...

Studying The Causes Of Autism

...e older parents and to be a firstborn child. Their mothers also had a greater incidence of threatened abortion, epidural anesthesia use, induced labor, and a labor lasting less than one hour. Autistic children were more likely to have experienced fetal distress, have low scores on a standard test to measure ...

Unborn Found To Be More Sensitive to Pollution

...ans. Researchers collected blood samples from 265 mothers and their newborn babies looking for biomarkers in... and cotinine, a component of cigarette smoke. All mothers in the study were nonsmokers. Even though the mothers were exposed to 10-times more of the pollutan...

Solutions Being Sought For Prevention Of Rickets

...with no vitamin D supplementation and children and mothers get less sun exposure because of concerns about sk... Exclusively breastfed children of Asian and black mothers living outside the tropics should receive 280 to 400 IU. They recommend vitamin D supplements be giv...

Identifying The Risks Of Developing Schizophrenia

...oom for error. Researchers used stored blood from mothers who gave birth between 1959 and 1966 to test for t...y people. Results of the study showed people whose mothers had antibodies to the flu virus in their blood during the first trimester of pregnancy were seven-ti...

The Effects Of Delaying A Delivery Questioned

...yed delivery. The babies had fetal trauma, and the mothers were between 24- and 36-weeks pregnant. The delayed delivery meant the physician waited as long as possible before the baby was born. The delay ended up being about four days later compared to the babies who were born immediately. Researchers then l...

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...ore likely to die in childhood than children whose mothers have not died. There is a stark divide of maternal mortality between the rich and poor countries. In some developing regions, a woman has a one in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy and childbirth. The risk of dying in pregnancy in the world's poorest ...

Urinary Incontinence May Be Hereditary

Researchers say women whose mothers suffer from urinary incontinence were about 1.3-times more likely to suffer from it and when // mothers reported severe symptoms, daughters were nearly two-times more likely to report urinary incontinence...

Mother’s Milk Stored For Long Periods Found To Have Less Antioxidant

...ls of antioxidants. Researchers sampled milk from mothers who had delivered to full term or who had delivered premature babies, as well as formula milk. Results showed fresh human milk had a significantly higher value of antioxidants than formula. Although formula retained the same levels of antioxidants wh...

The Impact of Stress Early In Life

...e groups. The first group was separated from their mothers during the first week of life, before social skill...y, researchers separated infant monkeys from their mothers during the first week of life and then placed them in social groups of other monkeys. They were pair...

Avoiding Drugs During Pregnancy

... Researchers studied 17 full-term newborns whose mothers had taken an SSRI during pregnancy and 17 similar infants whose mothers had not taken one of the drugs, assessing them for more subtle neurobehavioral differences. They fou...

Vitamin C Consumption In Pregnancy Found To Increase The Likelihood Of Asthma and Eczema in Kids

...study participants. Results showed children whose mothers had the highest levels of total vitamin C intake were also the most likely to develop eczema and asthma by age 2. However other antioxidants test such as vitamin E, selenium, beta-carotene, magnesium, copper, or zinc were not associated with early ch...

Pollution can cause damage to fetus in womb

...urposes. Examining 265 pairs of newborns and their mothers in New York City, the study was aimed to find out if environmental toxicity affects the susceptibility to cancer in human beings, especially babies. The results show that the PAH which enters the placenta of the fetus are carcinogenic in nature and...

Depressed Mothers Found To Influence Their Child’s Behavio

After examining 1,116 sets of twins and their mothers to see if there was a link between maternal depres...r by age 7 , researchers say children of depressed mothers were found to have increased problems with conduct and more antisocial behavior . Results of the st...

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(Date:7/25/2008)...after antiretroviral therapy may be due to genetic...News) -- A new study challenges the long-held beli...mune system,s ability to restore itself after HIV ...iral therapy (HAART). , From 50 percent to 90 p...d with HCV. Intravenous drug use is the main cause...
(Date:7/25/2008)...patients consumers tips and encourages them to, ,...BURG, Pa., July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ...ts "National Patient Safety Day" which,is a nation... to,participate fully in their healthcare by askin... their surgery or illness., "We understand the im...
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(Date:7/25/2008)...y 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,..., today announced that it,has launched amiodarone ...icated for the treatment and prophylaxis of freque...namically unstable ventricular,tachycardia -- a po...agent,s amiodarone HCl injection will be available...
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(Date:7/24/2008)...n buries as much carbon in the ocean -- in the for...untry all year long combined. , That,s the find... a recent issue of the journal Geology . , The ...f stream water and sediments that were being washe... force -- will help scientists develop better mode...
(Date:7/23/2008)...collectively spend about $1 billion annually could...tric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next ...e about that much money to put an end to a tenth o...the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, ... program could have potential to reduce global car...
(Date:7/23/2008)...ndards and Technology (NIST) have developed a tech...ns in protein-based pharmaceuticals. This first sy...ch scientists can be assured that their instrument...n aggregates, a major concern because of its impac...anufacturing. , Proteins, a main constituent of ...
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