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Government Hospital’s Poor Functioning Claims Lives Of 138 Infant

...ld hospital and said delivery and resuscitation of newborn babies was mainly being done by midwives. 'This practice is undesirable,' the report said. Besides, vital monitors and essential equipment were also lacking. The three-member team, headed by the Agartala Government Medical College's P. Nishikanta ...

Maternal Mortality Rate On Rise In India

...es for facilitating round the clock deliveries and newborn care under the rural healthcare scheme with the aim of helping states to operationalise at least 50 percent of primary health centres as 24-hour functional units in a phased manner, he said. Plans are also afoot to emulate the success of Bangladesh...

Exposure To Solvents May Harm Pregnant Women And Newborns

... is born,' suggests Englert. This ensures that the newborn will not be exposed to high concentration of the materials used at the outset of a project. Using solvents without dyes is an alternative, but they also expose pregnant women and their unborn baby unnecessarily to things they should avoid, he said....

Indian Scientists Identify Second Pancreatitis Gene

... possible in the future to predict via screening a newborn baby's propensity for pancreatitis. "On the basis of the prediction, a clinic can counsel on diet and lifestyles. It will be even possible to prevent the disease," he said. Pancreas, the second most important organ in the human body after the hear...

Progressive Genetic Diseases Can Be Detected By A Simple Blood Test

...es, hopes to see the screen made a routine part of newborn testing. Lysosomes are small compartments within cells that help to recycle waste cellular material within the body. Enzymes within the lysosomes do this job by breaking up waste materials into smaller pieces. If one of these enzymes is not fun...

New Multi-functional Sensing Tool To Investigate Cystic Fibrosis

...gen reaching body tissues in premature infants and newborn animals. But little is known about how oxygen stress affects regulatory networks and alters chemoreceptors. To gain insights, the Georgia Tech researchers will study ATP, which is among the signaling molecules released by the carotid body. Research...

NHS To Screen Newborn Babies For Hearing Impairment

...ildren must be given every chance to blossom, "The newborn hearing screening programme will help to achieve this by giving hundreds of babies born with hearing impairment and deafness the opportunity to develop communication skills and bond with their parents from an early age." Angela King, a senior audiolo...

Adult and Children Have Varied Drug Metabolism

...id that 90 % of medicines used in the treatment of newborn babies had not been tested on infants. Some of them are morphine and many anti-epileptic agents. Hence in conclusion more number of studies has to be directed in the better understanding of the drug metabolism in children....

Newborns Affected By Antidepressant Intake Of Mothers

...ect the new born with withdrawal symptoms. // The newborn babies of such mothers display symptoms like disturbed sleep, gastrointestinal problems, high-pitched crying, and tremors within 48 hours after birth. These symptoms are higher in the case of babies of women who had taken higher doses of the medic...

Infants Need to Be Vaccinated For Hepatitis B

... B vaccines for the hepatitis B surface antigen in newborn babies. The occurrence of the infection is reported to have been prevented by administering the hepatitis B immunoglobulin, hepatitis B vaccine, or a combination of both, along with immunoglobulin. The combination with the immunoglobulin was seen ...

Human Milk Center Caters To Premature Babies

...’s Mumbai City has been providing mother's milk to newborn babies. The Human Milk Center at the Sion Hospital caters// to newborns and premature babies whose mothers do not lactate. The deprivation of breast milk, which contains a right balance of nutrients and is the most easily digestible food for babies,...

FDA to Revise Herpes Test Rules in the US

... false negative could result in the infection of a newborn infant, which could be fatal. The FDA says the reliability and performance of the tests has improved now. It has set a deadline of April 10 for comments on the reclassification. At least 45 million Americans 12 and older have genital herpes, which ...

Indonesian Health Care System Rebuilt After Tsunami

...em in Indonesia. Infact 80 to 90 % of maternal and newborn care was instituted by midwives, both in the priva...articipate in diverse areas such as prenatal care, newborn care, vaccination, contraception and other health care services. "JHPIEGO was honored to be such a...

New Portable Helmet Scanner To Examine Newborns

...elmet scanner has been developed for premature and newborn babies that helps doctors save them by generating images showing // how the baby brain is working. Currently, there are two main ways of performing brain scans on small babies. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide data on brain function, b...

Recanalization enables Tsunami mourners to parent again

...an from her village, Kumari, is also expecting her newborn in June next year after the successful surgery. The surgery has brought new hopes also for Selvi, 25, and Geetha, 26, from the nearby Keechangkuppam village. They are among the 51 women in the district to have undergone through recanalization sur...

Mother Sacrifices Her Life For Her Son

...lness until the child was born. She died after her newborn son Nathan was baptized. Nathan is now a four-month-old toddler. The doctors were compelled to induce him due to a rise in the calcium levels of the mother, making the child premature by two months. Bernadette Mimura has three other children born t...

‘Life Cell’ In India Can store Cord Blood Stem Cells and Save Live

...n making the concept of preserving cord blood from newborn popular. It has collaborated with Cryo-Cell Intern...ike a ‘biological future health insurance’ for the newborn baby and its future offspring’s and siblings. First time the umbilical cord blood stem cells were ...

Untied Kingdom to supplement folic acid in flour

...new born babies and pregnant women has it protects newborn babies from birth defects. Folic acid is also very useful in old age people as they are prone to B12 deficiency leading to anemia and neurological abnormalities. Folic acid helps to increase blood cells in old people preventing anemia. Supplementati...

India’s smallest premature baby brings immense joy to Indian parent

...st. After all, nobody can take away the joy that a newborn brings into the family....

Stem cell therapy for developing new trachea using Tissue engineering

... develop fetal cells and to repair malformation in newborn babies. Source: News wise...

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