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Should the UK Adopt Dutch Rules on Euthanasia in Newborn Babies?

...iatrics at the University of London. To regulate neonatal euthanasia, clinicians in the Netherlands have arg...ber 2006, unreservedly rejected the possibility of neonatal euthanasia in the context of UK practice even when life is intolerable. One of the reasons the UK ...

United Kingdom: Maternity Units Exposed! Leaves Much to Be Desired

... have, combined with the provision of transitional neonatal care." In summary, there is a crisis brewing in the maternity care in hospitals. Measures need to be taken on a war footing to save the day for patients availing care at such units....

Preterm Labor Drug Causes More Side Effects

...ulfate were also more likely to be admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit than those whose mothers had received the alternative treatment, although the data do not offer an explanation for this finding and more research needs to be conducted to rule out other causes. What is clear is that currently avai...

Adding Folic Acid to Bread Could Help Battle Depression

...th disabilities such as spina bifida, miscarriage, neonatal death or lifelong disability, and now the review lends support to this claim. As a part of their study, the researchers carried out a review of 11 previous studies involving 15,315 participants. Based on their findings they state that though they...

2 Minute Delay in Cutting Cord can Give Babies a 'significant' Health Boost

...mportantly, these benefits extend beyond the early neonatal period," the Daily Mail quoted her, as saying. Anaemia is a shortage of oxygen-carrying haemoglobin in the blood that causes paleness, tiredness, shortness of breath and can affect brain development. Delayed clamping has previously been linked to...

Evidence Underlying Repeated Courses of Steroids for Preterm Birth may Be Unsound

...abies born before 32 weeks of pregnancy often have neonatal lung disease, a major cause of illness and death. Several previous analyses concluded that steroids were most effective when given within a week of delivery, which led to repeated treatment for women who did not deliver within this time frame. H...

Steroid Drugs to Preterm Delivery Mothers may Cause Risk

...abies born before 32 weeks of pregnancy often have neonatal lung disease, a major cause of illness and death - the earlier the birth, the greater the risk. In the 1990s, the benefit of giving antenatal corticosteroids to prevent lung disease in preterm babies was established. Several analyses concluded that...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

...urviving long enough to go home, after months in a neonatal intensive care unit, is not usually the end of their struggle. Though advances in medical technology have improved their chances of survival, the percentage with major complications, such as blindness, deafness and cerebral palsy, has not changed...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

... method they developed to follow the fate of early neonatal and adult neural stem cells in 15 different regions of the subventricular zone. These cells typically produce young neurons that migrate to the olfactory bulb, where they mature into several distinct types of interneurons, neurons that are essential ...

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