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Sleep Not Critical For Early Brain Development Of Baby Dolphins

...nt component of mammal’s daily life and more so of newborn babies who in their first month of // gestation ar...ng in the sea. It has been reported in Nature that newborn bottlenose dolphins and killer whales are wake most of the time in the first month. Their moms manag...

Stress and mood fatigue may affect the diet in pregnancy

...n favor of good health of the unborn fetus and the newborn child....

Colic in babies may be related to maternal depression and stress

...y, the result can be very detrimental for both the newborn and the mother. The researchers have termed colic as the parental threshold for infant crying spells. Mothers who come from dysfunctional families with poor communications, role confusions, poor handling of emotions, and lack of interaction between ...

Birth weight and breast feeding associated with breast cancer

...of like is likely to cause hormonal changes in the newborn that may later be expressed as tendency of development of malignant tumors in the breast. The researchers had studied biological details of 845 women with breast cancer and 1573 women as controls. Their results have showed that pre-menopausal women ...

Birth weight and adult body weight increases heart disease

...ch show that higher the birth weight of the female newborn babies, lesser is their chance of having coronary ...hat there exits no association between size of the newborn and adult body weight on determining the risk of stroke. Results also suggest small newborn who cat...

Obesity may be from weight gained by the newborn

...eference population. The researches had said that newborn weight gain in the first week f life is a critical factor to decide adult obesity. This may help in understanding how chronic diseases are activated and may suggest new ways to approach the problem of obesity....

Onions to prevent osteoporosis

...he study had involved segregation of bone cells of newborn mice that were treated with parathyroid hormone to simulate a situation of osteoporosis. These cells were later exposed to the peptide GPCS. The treatment with the peptide helped in controlling the bone loss by preventing the loss of bone minerals li...

Vaginal Birth After C-section Dangerous For Both Mother And Baby

..., uterine rupture is possible, as is injury to the newborn due to lack of oxygen (hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy). Women may also experience endometritis and a greater need for a blood transfusion. It was observed that doctors believe, women who have one C-section have to deliver all subsequent babies by t...

Mother’s Milk Stored For Long Periods Found To Have Less Antioxidant

...ew research shows not only is breast feeding one’s newborn beneficial, but making sure the milk is fresh is also crucial. // According to a recent study , breast milk that has been refrigerated or frozen for more than 48 hours begins to lose significant levels of antioxidants. Researchers sampled milk from ...

Unborn Found To Be More Sensitive to Pollution

...t researchers who studied pregnant women and their newborn babies // .Past studies in mice have shown exposur...collected blood samples from 265 mothers and their newborn babies looking for biomarkers indicating exposure to proteins known as carcinogen-DNA adducts, and c...

Screening Newborns Questioned

...metry. Currently, 24 states are using the expanded newborn screening test. Researchers from Children’s Hosp... identified either clinically or by using expanded newborn screening. Overall, 50 affected children had been identified through expanded newborn screening, and...

Reducing HIV Transmission

...transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their newborn children.// Health officials estimate in 2002 ab...transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their newborn children. Suboptimum single-agent and double-agent prophylaxis protocols no longer have a justifia...

Wait Between Pregnancies

...iving birth -- teenagers and women who have lost a newborn baby....

S. Africa AIDS in 'death phase'

...e to use an AIDS drug called nevirapine to prevent newborn children from contracting the HIV infection from their mothers.As the incidence of HIVAIDS starts to plateau at about 33 percent, sickness and deaths are on the increase. Activists say AIDS kills about 600 South Africans each day -- a number that se...

Boys demand more than girls, even before birth

...etable fats. It is widely accepted that on average newborn boys are heavier than newborn girls.// The findings give us a better understanding of why that is the case. Researchers studied th...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

...letely. If you keep smoking, you can expect your newborn baby to catch more colds, coughs, middle ear infections and more severe problems like bronchitis and pneumonia all of which can put your baby back into the hospital. If anything provides motivation to stop smoking, it seems being pregnant would....

Risk of early neonatal death high in infants born in the night

...lves. Also, researchers added that the risk that a newborn will die during the first week of life is now extremely small, regardless of the time of birth....

Barcodes to become newborns' ID

...eveloped to prevent mix-ups over identification of newborn babies. The system, which records the fingerprints of newborns as barcodes, has been introduced in the maternity ward of La Zarzuela Hospital in Madrid, Spain. As soon as babies are born, their fingerprints, and those of their// mothers, are stored ...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

... researchers are to investigate whether lowering a newborn baby's temperature by a few degrees can prevent the complications caused by asphyxia. Asphyxia can be caused by a number of factors, including an obstruction to the baby's blood supply or detachment of the placenta, however, in many cases the cause c...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

... development of epileptic discharges in cells from newborn mammals that have been briefly starved of oxygen. A research team from the Institut National De La Santé in France examined cells from the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is thought to control memory.They subjected the cells to the same level ...

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