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Babies Breast-fed beyond Nine Months at Risk of Allergies

...Finland had asked 200 mothers to breast-feed their newborn children for as long as possible. The breast fed children were assessed for allergies at the ages of five, 11 and 20. It was found that feeding children exclusively on breast milk for nine months or more appeared to increase their risk of allergic ...

Gene Therapy Technique for Inherited Heart Problems in The Pipeline

... to insert genes into skeletal and heart muscle in newborn and in adult mice. Tests revealed that AAV-9 was taken up throughout the heart muscle at 200 times the levels achieved with AAV-1. In contrast, AAV-8 was taken up by heart muscle at 20 times the levels achieved with AAV-1, though it was less precis...

FDA Approves New Test For Screening Infection In Babies

...nd pneumonia. The likelihood of dying if you are a newborn is 5 percent. (With meningitis) even if the baby makes it through the infection there is a chance of cerebral palsy and cognitive delay." The new group B strep test, developed by the California-based company Cepheid, allows doctors to screen for th...

Pain Relief During Circumcision

...Hospital, in a news release. "There is no reason a newborn should have to endure the pain of circumcision without a local or topical anesthetic." Researchers say the results show that the debate over whether babies feel pain during circumcision has ended. Since 1999, most major medical associations, includ...

Norway Grants $80 mn to India's Health Mission

...ted social health activists (ASHAs) for home-based newborn and child care. It will also be responsible for facilitating successful implementation of the integrated management of neonatal and child illness (IMNCI) at the district level. The secretary of health and family welfare, Prasanna Hota, was quoted...

Increasing Numbers Of Dehydrated New Born Babies Needing Emergency hospital care

...tal care. Experts have reported that hundreds of newborn babies suffering from dehydration are being re-admitted to hospital as mothers are being warned not to resort to bottle-feeding. They explain that the 'breast is best' message has left many women unwilling to use formula milk even as a back up when t...

The Fight Against Hepatitis

...on in our Immunization schedule to be given to all newborn infants; quality of screening of the donor blood has improved to a great extent. Provision of safe drinking water and proper sanitation facilities has been extended throughout the Indian subcontinent. However, it is still found that many of the inter...

Effect of Intimate Partner Violence during Pregnancy

...health of women during pregnancy and the health of newborn children have revealed that violence from male par... the health of women, their pregnancies, and their newborn children." The study builds on previous research showing the risks posed to women by male partners...

Preventive Measures Proved Ineffective in Allergic Children

...n oily fish. The researchers recruited over 600 newborn children with a family history of asthma in western and south-western Sydney. Participants were tracked from their birth to the age of five in a bid to explore the role of early exposure to environmental factors in the development of asthma. Publis...

Impoverished Parents sell their Daughter to Treat their Ailing Kids

... a free vaccine was provided to Pakistan for every newborn baby in the country to control hepatitis B. Bile lauded Pakistan's national programme to control hepatitis infections, saying WHO was helping the government create awareness through a programme about safe blood transfusion and proper disposal of sy...

UN Bodies Launch Action Plan To Check Pregnancy Related Death

...es besides improving health of pregnmant women and newborn babies. "We are faced with an urgent need to increase investment in sexual and reproductive health to ensure access to quality reproductive health services, including youth-friendly services, and to link HIV/AIDS and STI prevention with reproductiv...

Growth Factors Help Neurons to Reach Their Correct Destination

...and nerve cells are established embryonically when newborn neurons extend axons to ‘wire’ the appropriate muscle fiber. The wiring process is highly orchestrated –each motor neuron has already pledged allegiance to a particular muscle fiber before it reaches out to connect with its predetermined partner. But...

Link Established—Assisted Fertilization Can Complicate Pregnanc

... to prematurity and perinatal complications in the newborn babies. This finding has been documented after a study in Norway of more than 845,300 pregnancies during the period between 1988 and 2002 .It concluded that mothers with single-baby pregnancies conceived through assisted reproductive techniques (AR...

Detection of Hearing Problems in the Early Life Is Very Important

...etics at the Medical College of Virginia said that newborn hearing screening programs in the 1960s were criti...onal Institutes of Health, and now every state has newborn screening made mandatory. The latest version of the hearing test can show the brain’s response to so...

Induced Labor A Danger to both Mother and Baby

...d future infertility, as well as infections in the newborn baby. Source: Eurekalert...

'Stillborn' Baby's Fight For Life Ends In Tragedy

...rected to undergo a 15-day training on handling of newborn babies. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Cancer Causing Chemicals Found In Urine Of Babies Whose Parents Smoke

...L compared to the babies in the current study. The newborn infants, however, took in the carcinogen directly from their mothers through their placentas rather than by breathing second-hand smoke in the air in their family homes and cars. In the current study, when babies had detectable levels of NNAL, Hech...

Angelina Jolie Opts To Back For Global Education For Poor Children

... Sunday Times. Pictures of the couple with their newborn are likely to sell for millions of dollars, but according to Sunday Times, Jolie has already agreed to sell People Magazine the pictures in return for a $3.5 million contribution to UNICEF. --Edited IANS...

Enhancing Infants Immune System

...en's Division of Infectious Diseases show that the newborn immune system functions differently than that of a...s team is uncovering other differences between the newborn and adult immune systems that could lead to additional targets for drugs or vaccines. A related pape...

Childbirth On Road Drew Public Attention In West Bengal

..., about 180 km from here, lying on a road with her newborn baby after she was forced to leave a hospital in Siuri town. The district magistrate of Birbhum has ordered a probe into the incident. Basanti, wife of a daily wage labourer, was admitted Sunday evening in the hospital and was in pain but allege...

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