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Drugs Taken During Pregnancy Found To Affect Unborn Babies

.... For the study 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...

Good News for New Borns With Hypoxic Respiratory Failure

...e than the surgical option. In fact, for every 100 newborns with HRF, treatment with inhaled nitric oxide could save more than $440,000.Researchers conclude the savings could range from $1,880 per child to $4,400 per child. Researchers of the study say ,“Many therapies and life-saving equipment readily acc...

Screening Newborns Questioned

New research shows screening newborns for biochemical genetic disorders may improve a ch...creening for biochemical genetic disorders affects newborns and their families. Researchers interviewed more than 250 mothers and more than 150 fathers who had...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...is also among one of the most common ailments //in newborns that often go unnoticed. A National Hospital's dat... University of California showed that four in 1000 newborns had a stroke. Dr. Donna said that many parents and neurologists are not aware of the risk of stroke...

Barcodes to become newborns' ID

...ies. 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 in electronic barcodes which mother and baby wear on their wris...

Massage therapy regulates sleep cycle of newborns

...-term infants, revealed that massage therapy helps newborns develop a more regular sleep cycle. Dr. Sari Goldstein from Tel Aviv University says that massage therapy by mothers in the perinatal // period helps infants coordinate their circadian systems with environmental cues. Circadian rhythm is a biologica...

New Vitamin K Recommendations

...ur blood clot properly.It is so important that all newborns receive an injection immediately after birth to pr...s and is made by bacteria //in the intestine.Since newborns do not have bacteria established, they need supplemental vitamin K. An Adequate Intake level of 120...

Babies Need Vaccination

According to doctors, all newborns should be vaccinated against hepatitis B before leaving the hospital to protect against possible disease from infected mothers.Previously, giving the shots in the hospital was recommended only for newborns// whose mothers were known to be infected or...

FDA approves drug for rare liver disease

...// It is not among the metabolic diseases that all newborns are tested for at birth, so often infants die undiagnosed. This is an absolutely fatal disease until now. Children born with such a very rare but very lethal liver disease have won the first drug that promises to help them live years longer. The dru...

Good News For Women With Gestational Diabetes

...velop high blood pressure or preeclampsia.// Their newborns are at risk for lung problems and occasionally die. To keep blood sugar under control, some women need to take a lot of insulin, especially if they are older or overweight. Now that task may get easier. Researchers in Australia and New Zealand foun...

Erythromycin and infants’ intestinal disorde

...han babies who were not given the antibiotic. The newborns were given erthromycin by mouth in a 10-to-14 day course, usually because of maternal chlamydia at the time of delivery. Erythromucin has had a long history as a useful, safe, and generally well-tolerated drug, the researchers reported. However, as a...

The new born nightmare

... stenosis, a condition that affects about 1 in 400 newborns and it is the most common cause of abdominal surgery in infants. Using the Regenstrief Medical Record System – a comprehensive database that stores information on diagnoses, operative reports, pharmacy records and physician observations –the invest...

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