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Swiss Researchers Isolate Hair-Raising Stem Cells

...ations. These cells were injected into the skin of newborn mice and then the skin graft was given to nude mice. It was found that these progeny cells participated in the formation of eight types of cells including outer root sheath, inner root sheath, the hair shaft, the sebaceous gland and the epidermis. 12...

Toxic chemicals found in domestic products poisoning newborn babies

... the umbilical cord. The study was conducted in 27 newborn babies and 42 new mothers. The samples were tested...lear evidence that these chemicals cause damage to newborn child, presence of these chemical compounds in the umbilical cord causes great concerns, as they are...

Amnioinfusion does not reduce risk of meconium aspiration syndrome

... referred to as meconium aspiration) occurs when a newborn inhales a mixture of meconium and amniotic fluid during labor and delivery. Meconium is the material that fills the fetal intestinal tract during pregnancy and is formed from ingested amniotic fluid and dead intestinal cells.// Although it is steri...

Can Home Remedy For Stomachache Work?

...en used to prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhea, newborn colic, ulcerative colitis, and a variety of forms of diarrhea. On the other hand, the article says that star anise should be avoided for colicky infants. The research recommends further study of herbal products for children and greater communicatio...

Watch out those of you planning for a predetermined Cesarean Section

... c-section delivery and higher risk of cavities in newborn and has called for special attention regarding the newborns' oral health. This has been the first study to distinguish between bacterial infection in C-section and vaginally delivered babies. The research has been focused on a caries-causing bacteri...

Early Screening For Hearing Impairments In Newborn Can Be Helpful

...112 per 100,000 children worldwide. The benefit of newborn screening has been disputed for this condition but...f babies enrolled in the Wessex trial of universal newborn screening (UNS) for PCHI. In the latest study the researchers reviewed a group of 66 children aged b...

Vitamins Found To Influence Birth Weight

...ers from UK, examined nearly 1,000 women and their newborn babies and found that women in early pregnancy with lower levels of Folate were more likely to have a lighter and less healthy baby. Researchers say by their study they intend to boost the cause for fortification. The recent study was based on bloo...

Hope For Patients With Muscular Dystrophy

...arose when a German neurologist , stumbled // on a newborn who appeared to have especially well-developed muscles. Further tests revealed the child had a mutation in his myostatin gene that effectively kept his body from producing the myostatin protein, which is known to regulate muscle growth. So far the ch...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...g. Farroni and her colleagues studied 17 healthy newborn infants who were between 2 and 5 days old. For the study, each infant was seated on a researcher's lap in front of a video screen. Two photographs of a woman were projected side-by-side on the screen: one with her gaze directly pointed at the infant ...

Brain Cell Repair Loss disclosed

...owth rates. Surprising, but even if the cells from newborn rats were given a host of growth-enhancing biochemicals, the embryonic rat cell axons grew about 10 times faster, sprouting out at an average speed of about half a millimeter per day. "We found out rats lose this ability sharply within the day of bi...

American scientists alter gene makeup of babies

...ficially altered had been born.// Though the newborn babies were healthy, the technique, which led to their birth, has been condemned as unethical by some British scientists, who said it amounted to human cloning. Genes from the eggs of donor women were added to the eggs of infertile women in an...

Breastfeeding Decline In Middle East Worries UN

...ilk is nutritional. Doctors’ advice the mothers of newborn babies to only exclusively breast-feed their babies till they are of six-month age. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/breastfeed_mothermilk.asp </font...

Researchers Gather Stem Cells From Discarded Placenta

... amniotic epithelium for future emergencies of the newborn child. However the researchers also point out the fact that despite the similarities between the amniotic epithelial cells and the embryonic stem cells, these are not stem cells totally, as they will not be able to regenerate indefinitely. This is be...

Breastfeeding Lowers Maternal Stress

...ilk is nutritional. Doctors’ advice the mothers of newborn babies to only exclusively breast-feed their babies till they are of six-month age. For more information read: http://www.medindia.net/patients/ patientinfo/breastfeed_mothermilk.asp </font...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

...earchers had studied the pregnant ladies and their newborn babies and tested the blood samples of the women, who had also answered a questionnaire regarding their lifestyle information. The team had also collected data on the amount of folate the to-be-mothers had during their pregnancy. Source: EurekAlert ...

Possibility Of Treatment For Permanent Hearing Loss

.... Standard hearing tests, similar to those used on newborn babies, confirmed that the treated mice were able to hear. The results said that RNA interference was not only successful but also highly specific. Despite the fact that the mouse and the human gene differed by only two nucleotides over the short st...

More News That Circumcision Could Reduce risk of HIV infection

...d of penis. This extra skin is called foreskin. In newborn babies the under surface of the foreskin is fused to the head of penis. Because of this in 95% of newborn babies the foreskin can not be pulled back. This is referred to as ‘physiological phimosis’ or ‘non ...

Mercy killing for newborn with incurable disease in Netherlands

...ar diagnosis and prognosis study of the child. The newborn baby should be examined for other treatment proced...he need for an immediate reporting of all cases of newborn euthanasia to a national committee of doctors, lawyers, and ethicists. Such euthanasia law board exi...

Smoking during pregnancy causes reduced birthweight

...esults of the study showed that birthweight of the newborn was decreased corresponding to the level of both maternal or spouses' expired air carbon monoxide concentrations. This relation was found to be dose dependant. Head circumference, Apgar score, and normal term gestational age also decreased significa...

Sharing a bed with infants may raise the risk for SIDS

...act that parents who share their beds// with their newborn babies can unknowingly increase the risk of SIDS for their children. Sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS is one of the major reasons of infant mortality for infants in the age group of one month to a year. SIDS is a disorder that seems to have no r...

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