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WHO Attributes Death of Millions in Africa to Treatable diseases

...nisation (WHO) reported on Monday that millions of newborn babies, //children and mothers die each year in Africa from preventable diseases in spite of promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries. The WHO reported that because of AIDS and armed conflicts, the health situation in severa...

National Neonatology Forum Plans to Celebrate Newborn Week

...the National Neonatology Forum (NNF) has announced newborn week celebrations Dec 15-21. // The NNF's thrust this year includes provision of newborn care at home and recognition of danger signs, transferring sick newborns from home to referral centr...

Research 'Extraordinaire' To Restore Vision

...ed to develop into photoreceptors, were taken from newborn mice. Five-day old mice were ideal candidates, as, in them, the retina is at the stage of formation. These cells were then transplanted into the retina of the 'designer' mice, which were genetically engineered to develop conditions like Retinitis pig...

Consider Euthanasia For Severely Disabled Babies, College Tells Doctors

... issues raised by the policy of prolonging life in newborn babies by extraordinary measures, is being carried out by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The college wants the euthanasia proposal to be included as part of it. Euthanasia is illegal in Britain but the submission is looked upon favourably by ge...

New Medicaid Rule For New Borns

...rs will not be able to cover any services for the newborn until a Medicaid application is filed, which could take several weeks or months. Medical groups such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the March of Dimes say that some doctors may not be willing to...

Artificial Liver from Cord Blood Stem cells

...s isolated from umbilical cord blood obtained from newborn babies. These stem cells were subjected to rapid proliferation by placing in a “bioreactor” developed by NASA. These cells were then induced to convert into liver tissue by the addition of certain hormones and chemicals. This was the first time t...

Gastroenteritis attacks the newborn ward

...rnity hospital in Sydney, blocked transfers to its newborn ward from other hospitals, following five babies// getting sick with gastroenteritis, known to cause vomiting and diarrhea. The sick babies have been secluded to reduce the spread of virus. The new born care centre ensured that the area was absolut...

Choice of Anesthesia in C-section

...d either regional or general anesthesia. Multiple newborn outcome measures were considered in the review, in...the mother's contractions. "It also suppresses the newborn and causes the mother to miss the birth of her child because she is unconscious," he added. "Region...

Babies in Womb Exposed to Harmful Chemicals

...e point in their development. Blood tests of 30 newborn babies found the presence of eight different groups of chemicals, ranging from cleaning products to chemicals used to make plastics and non-stick waterproof coatings. A study led by scientists at the University of Rochester in New York also found ...

Prayer and Faith Helps Parents Endure Their Child’s Deat

...rapies. The deceased children ranged in age from newborn to 18 years, and represented the full range of medical and surgical diagnoses. Parents completed the questionnaires 12 to 45 months after their child's death. The researchers focused on five open-ended questions: 1) What was most helpful to you in ...

Brain Defect boy Compensated for Medical Error

...ays of misery were to begin." For three days the newborn did not cry nor did he suck milk. And Thomas felt the doctors were not responding adequately to his and his wife's misery. "I felt it was getting out of hand. I asked for the case sheet. After a while I grabbed the case sheet and the hospital refer...

Indian Scientist to Help Reduce Infant Mortality in Africa: UNICEF

...t his home-based approach to caring and treating// newborn babies to reduce infant mortality in Africa, the U...as been able to reduce by two-thirds the number of newborn babies dying within a month after birth. At a cost of $150 per child, Bang's model is hailed as a...

Artificial Light May Damage Biological Clock In Premature Babies

...tudy conducted on mice, the researchers found that newborn mice were vulnerable to the effects of constant light. 'All this is speculative at this point. But, certainly the data would indicate that human infants benefit from the synchronizing effect of a normal light cycle,' said Lead researcher Dr Douglas M...

Depression In Pregnant Women Not Being Treated

...ich can interfere with her ability to care for her newborn and herself. Pregnant women who are experiencing possible signs of depression, or who have a history of depression, should talk to their doctors or midwives immediately. Medications, talk therapy, stress reduction, exercise and other steps can help e...

Concerns That Heel-Prick Consent May Decrease Testing In Babies

...f there is a need to introduce new legislation for newborn screening programs....

Bribery has Claimed the Life of a Newborn in Madhya Pradesh

A newborn child in a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh allegedly died because his parents didn't have Rs.50 to pay the nurse who refused to tie the umbilical cord.// Ram Milan, the father of the baby boy who died Tuesday, said he had taken his wife to th...

No therapy for most of the pregnant women with depression

...ich can interfere with her ability to care for her newborn and herself. Pregnant women who are experiencing possible signs of depression, or who have a history of depression, should talk to their doctors or midwives immediately. Medications, talk therapy, stress reduction, exercise and other steps can help e...

Fittest Of Newborn Neurons Survive

...al it is stimulated and relays the signal. But for newborn neurons that signal means something else entirely ...s in response to glutamate in the environment, the newborn neurons withered and died at a specific stage of their maturation," explains Gage. " The NMDA recept...

Researchers from Emory University Undertake A New Genetic Mapping

...years, doctors would be able to examine the DNA of newborn babies, and compare it to a reference code of human DNA so as to anticipate an infant's vulnerability to any disease. They explained that they hope that such information could help doctors in knowing as to which medicines would work most efficiently ...

Mother Guilty of Transferring HIV to her Child

...ssful in Canada. The risk of transmission to the newborn is 25 to 30 per cent even if the mother does not take any precaution”says Dr. Stanley Read, director of the HIV/AIDS program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. 'We haven't had an infected baby of a mom who took medication, however badly,...

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