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Using Eyes As The Line Of Reference For Fetal Brain Imaging

...e safe for pregnant women, their unborn babies and newborns with MR imaging that uses no ionizing radiation. This enables diagnosis and treatment of many // disorders that were previously undetectable or worsened by delayed intervention.. Fetal MRI is usually performed when ultrasound is inconclusive or furth...

Children With Facial Anomalies Are Affected By Parental Tensions

Stress suffered by parents of newborns with craniofacial anomalies like cleft palate, etc...problems, specific guidance tailored to parents of newborns with CFAs could have positive effects on the psychosocial well being of parents and their children. ...

Experts Insist That Neonatal Herpes Be Reported Regularly

Experts are of the opinion that infection of newborns with herpes type 1 and 2 should be routinely repor...ella and HIV infection, syphilis, and gonorrhea in newborns all are less common than neonatal herpes. Yet these are reportable in almost all states and are trac...

Early Screening For Hearing Impairments In Newborn Can Be Helpful

Research said that screening newborns for permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI) might help in raising the chances of early detection of the condition by about 43%. The study findings were presented in this week’s // The Lancet. PCHI is a congenital defect that affects 112 per 1...

Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...llege, University of London.// Farroni, felt that newborns are not able to move, so they need to orient in the direction of faces that care for them--people who can feed and protect them. As they grow up, a face with the averted gaze starts to be considered to be a signal of alarm that tells us something is ...

Brain Cell Repair Loss disclosed

...wn nerve cells from the retinas of rat embryos and newborns and compared growth 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 p...

Breastfeeding Decline In Middle East Worries UN

...cious cycle that affects the nutritional status of newborns at a very early stage. "Delivering proper nutrition messages and educating the general public, particularly child care providers, on the absolute benefits of breastfeeding are key interventions we have yet to apply comprehensively in the region," sa...

Study Links Folic Acid With Increased Birth Weight

... have examined about 1000 cases of women and their newborns and published their results in the recent edition of British Journal of Nutrition. About one in every thirteen babies have a chance of being of low birth weight and develop detrimental health conditions because of their birth weights. Hence it is es...

Mercy killing for newborn with incurable disease in Netherlands

...t conditions... deliberate ending of life" of such newborns "can be an acceptable option." The Groningen protocol was agreed by Groningen doctors, but the action should be based on clinical grounds of the patients and the actions should be informed in public. The mercy killing is accepted only after the cl...

Prenatal exposure to air pollution causes chromosomal damage

... Environmental Health Sciences, US, had studied 60 newborns of the New York City to assess the damage caused by the pollution. The portable air monitors the pregnant women had worn during the last trimester of their pregnancy assessed the exposure to pollutants. They also had answered questionnaires giving de...

Low hemoglobin may make mothers bond less with their babies

...en. The new study suggests that bonding with their newborns is also affected by iron deficiency and may lead to disrupted relationship between the mother and the child. The study had videotaped the interactions of 64 mothers who had iron deficiency and 31 mothers who had a normal blood count interacting wit...

Drug Used To Improve Lung Function In Infants Could Slow Down Motor Coordination

A therapy routinely given to newborns to prevent or treat chronic lung disease may result in slower neuromotor and cognitive // functioning by school age say researchers based on findings of a recent study . Studies in the past have shown that dexamethasone, a drug known as glucocorticoi...

Epidural given in early labor may not lead to caesarian birth

...han the other. The one-minute Apgar scores for the newborns also were significantly higher than babies born otherwise. The study concluded that there was no significant effect of epidural analgesic on the rate of caesarian birth.According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, it is rec...

Pollution can cause damage to fetus in womb

...ut for commercial purposes. Examining 265 pairs of newborns and their mothers in New York City, the study was aimed to find out if environmental toxicity affects the susceptibility to cancer in human beings, especially babies. The results show that the PAH which enters the placenta of the fetus are carcinog...

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

...sarean section may be putting themselves and their newborns at risk,// say researchers based on findings of a recent study. Though the overall chance anything will go wrong is extremely small, uterine rupture is possible, as is injury to the newborn due to lack of oxygen (hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy). Wom...

Avoiding Drugs During Pregnancy

...ioral problems. Researchers studied 17 full-term newborns whose mothers had taken an SSRI during pregnancy and 17 similar infants whose mothers had not taken one of the drugs, assessing them for more subtle neurobehavioral differences. They found infants exposed to SSRIs in the womb were more likely to have...

Unborn Found To Be More Sensitive to Pollution

...re exposed to 10-times more of the pollutants, the newborns had evidence of DNA damage comparable to that found in their mothers. The infants actually had more cotinine in their systems than their mothers, suggesting exposure to secondhand smoke is especially dangerous for pregnant women. These results raise...

Antidepressants Late In Pregnancy Harmful to Unborn Baby

...le some of the negative health effects suffered by newborns could be the result of other diseases, researchers say in these cases a direct-drug effect is at least partly to blame, especially when the babies experienced withdrawal symptoms. They feel SSRIs should be the drug of choice if an antidepressant is n...

Lung Therapy Found To Have Long-Term Side Effects

... adverse effects.// A therapy routinely given to newborns to prevent or treat chronic lung disease may result in slower neuromotor and cognitive functioning by school age.Previous research shows dexamethasone, a drug known as glucocorticoid, often improves lung function in the short-term and allows for earl...

The Harmful Effects Of Cigarette Smoke

...hers studied the effect of smoke exposure on 1,314 newborns through parental questionnaires and interviews. One-third of the children were at “high risk” for allergies. Researchers studied what effect tobacco exposure had on children in utero as well as after birth. They looked for these airway disorders: all...

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