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Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria

...emia, and on the premature birth and low weight of newborns in mothers with malaria. Malaria is one of the major causes of death in the world. It is estimated that it causes about 3,000 deaths every day and that more than 300 million people in the world are afflicted by severe malaria. This disease, with an...

Indian Scientists Identify Cataract Causing Genes

...ongenital cataract affected about three per 10,000 newborns and was one of the significant causes of blindness...g possible cures for the disease that affects many newborns causing blindness and other visual problems. <br...

Scientist Identify 3 New Cataract Causing Genes

...genital cataract affects three out of every 10,000 newborns and is a significant cause of blindness in children and also life-long visual disability, Singh informed. The first breakthrough in the field came in 2001 when two new genes were identified. This time around, the two genes, along with a newly discov...

New Role of COX Enzymes Discovered

...terious. This necessary developmental step permits newborns to function independently from their mother. "These observations prompt us to explore new roles for the COX enzymes in biology," says FitzGerald. "Perhaps their embrace will extend to other enzymes, such as the lipoxygenases and the nitric oxide sy...

Earlier Introduction of Solid Foods in Infants Could Prevent Wheat Allergy

...datory for the doctors to recommend the mothers of newborns to feed them exclusively on breast milk //alone for the first six months, excluding any solid foods. But that notion has now been strongly challenged by a new study, saying that feeding the babies on cereals in the earlier part may be helpful to over...

Anti-Parasitic Drugs Useful in Reducing Damages of Congenital Toxoplasmosis

...wborns. Most states already require screening of newborns for a number of genetic and metabolic diseases that are less common than toxoplasmosis, but there is no systematic program for screening for toxoplasmosis during pregnancy in the United States. The Genetics Newborn Screening Advisory Group noted that...

Asian American Community Prone To Hepatitis B infection

...disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer. "In newborns there is a 90 percent chance of developing chronic...s, the transmission of hepatitis B from mothers to newborns in the United States has been drastically reduced with the help of neonatal screening and vaccinatio...

Cancer Causing Chemicals Found In Urine Of Babies Whose Parents Smoke

...his colleagues indicated that the first urine from newborns whose mothers smoked during pregnancy contained as much as one-third more NNAL 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 breath...

Health of Mothers and Children Show Improvement after Use of Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets

...iages or stillbirths by 33 percent and underweight newborns by 23 percent. The effects on severe anemia in the mothers were inconclusive. The review included another trial of 341 women in Thailand, which compared insecticide-treated nets with untreated nets. This trial showed that women using treated nets ...

A connection Between Cry Babies and Postpartum Depression

...ving trouble with their infants’ crying, including newborns with colic, which is clinically defined as crying at least three hours a day, three days a week, during the first three months of life. After conducting an exam and taking a medical history, clinic staffers help new mothers – and fathers – console th...

Kenyan Children at Risk of Measles

...tor of Medical Services reports that almost 35% of newborns are not being immunized leading to a population of about a half a million unvaccinated children. The national mass measles vaccination campaign that had been scheduled for 2005 was not conducted thereby aggravating the situation further. The Keny...

Enhancing Infants Immune System

... team decided to examine how well they function in newborns by studying white blood cells from their cord bloo...babies." Levy notes that the ability to vaccinate newborns – rather than wait until they reach 2 months of age – would provide important global health benefits...

New Study Confers All Clear Status On Letrozole, Infertility Drug

... a low risk. The researchers examined nearly 911 newborns who were treated for infertility with either clomi...birth defects or other chromosome abnormalities in newborns has been documented by the study. This highlights that letrozole can indeed be used in infertility t...

Where Mother's Skin Turns Into Food For Offspring

... its skin into a nourishing, fat-rich meal for its newborns to eat, they say. There's nothing (in the animal kingdom) that peels off the skin and eats big chunks of it like these things are doing, Wilkinson said. The team says the offspring of Boulengerula taitanus are entirely dependent on their parent...

Exposure To Solvents May Harm Pregnant Women And Newborns

Pregnant women and newborns should avoid exposure to the fumes of solvents used in house renovations.Contact with such materials, which contain dyes and lacquers//, could give rise to allergies in young children, said Norbert Englert, an environmental medical specialist at Germ...

Use Of Alcohol During Pregnancy Affects Newborns

...ss, muscle activity and breathing — than the other newborns at five minutes after birth. In addition, 30 percent of the babies in the alcohol group had low birth weight compared with 10 percent in the non-alcohol group. Sixteen percent were born prematurely, compared with 6 percent in the non-alcohol group....

Relieving the Pain of Infants

...tal for Sick Children said that at least one in 10 newborns have to undergo prolonged hospitalization for congenital defects or birth related illnesses. “It was not so long ago that infants routinely underwent painful procedures without the benefits of analgesia,” said Ms. Taddio. “Our previous studies showed...

Human Milk Center Caters To Premature Babies

...uman 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, could lead to lower IQ levels and weaker immune systems, apart from othe...

Programs for development of health in poor countries not effective

... also be the focus of new campaigns. Mothers and newborns must have both basic and emergency medical services as a priority, and all children should get measles immunization and micronutrients as a matter of course, say the authors. The fight against malaria demands a much larger injection of resources th...

Female Twins Have More To Share Than Just The Similarity: Risk Of Early Menopause

...others //and are subject to ill health problems as newborns and infants. But this is not all, it has now been revealed that female twins are four times more likely to reach menopause early when compared to other women. The study examined different aspects health in over 1700 twins and it was found out that...

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