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Kids with Congenital Heart Disease Found To Have Low I.Q Levels

Babies born with congenital heart disease are at a higher risk for learning problems later on in childhood, but correctly identifying // these children early on has been difficult say researchers. In a study conducted among 135 children with a congenital heart problem called D-transposition of the great arteries , all the children had the condition corrected by surgery. The children we...

Infection in pregnancy can lead to congenital eye defects

In a study done by scientists of England, congenital eye defects in babies like small eyes or having no eyes //at all may be traced back to the maternal infections. Infections like Rubella in pregnancy are known to cause such birth defects. Now studies have shown that infections such as from Parvovirus and Coxsackie virus may also be responsible for birth defects in newborns....

Enzyme Responsible For Congenital Blindness

Researchers from UCLA had found out that a deficient gene that is also responsible for the presence of an enzyme in the vision cycle that causes congenital blindness in children. The researchers’ study regarding the congenital blinding disease // called Leber congenital amaurosis is published in the August issue of the journal Cell. Researchers suggest that replacement of RPE65, which...

Exercise to children's with congenital disease beneficial

Study shows that Cardiac rehabilitation program with safe and tolerable exercise can be given to children's with serious congenital heart disease which help them to have a better heart function//. The study was conducted in Children's Hospital, Boston under the supervision of Cardiologist, Jonathan Rhodes. The study was conducted in 16 children's between the age group of 8 to 17 with se...

Fungal toxins infected corn the reason for congenital defects

Fungal toxins in corn may be the reason for neural tube defects outbreak in the Rio Grande Valley during the early 1990's. The study published in the on line journal Environmental Health Perspectives suggests that corn and its products //that have been infected by fungal toxins might give rise to neural tube defects (NTD), if consumed during the first trimester of pregnancy....

Britain's Bird Flu Contingency Plans Faces Criticism

A public health official blamed Britain's bird flu contingency plans as being too narrowly focused, ignoring the lessons learnt from the previous experiences// with dealing similar pandemics. However, the plans are too optimistic according to Dr. Hilary Pickles belonging to the Hillingdon Primary Care Trust in Middlesex, southern England. 'Normally you plan for the worst. They...

Anti-Parasitic Drugs Useful in Reducing Damages of Congenital Toxoplasmosis

Recent studies of long-term clinical data has revealed that treatment with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine (two anti-parasitic drugs) during the first year of life// leads to a lasting reduction in brain and eye damage for children with congenital toxoplasmosis. In the May 15 issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Disease, researchers report that a treatment they defined -- now consid...

BMA for Stringent Measures against Bullies

According to a recent report it was found that NHS staffs were being bullied by patients and their relatives and by senior doctors and nurses// . Statistics show that every 1 in 7 people report harrowing experiences from other members of staff. Hence the BMA calling for stringent measures against bullies from the top down in all workplaces in the health service. Bullying and harassment af...

Gene Therapy May Help Restore Sight In Congenital blindness

Researchers from the University of Florida announced on Monday that they have given sight to baby chickens with a disease that otherwise would have left them blind// by using a gene therapy. The researchers hope that the gene therapy may one day prevent a hereditary form of childhood blindness after they had achieved a promising study on chickens with the same condition. They explaine...

Stringent budget for 2006/2007 portends unhealthy trends for HIV/AIDS patients.

According to the director general of the Uganda AIDS Commission, Kihumuro Apuuli, and the envisaged budget cuts may hamper patients’ reach of anti-retroviral drugs// , which is extremely crucial to extend their lives. Presently almost 75,000 patients are using these drugs. Uganda has not been able to augment the annual healthcare budget over the years to the intended 15 percent, former...

Bird Flu Threat:Stringent Poultry Import Measures In Zanzibar

Authorities in Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous island in Tanzania have multiplied their efforts to curb chicken import in a bid to control the outbreak //of bird flu on the island. Scores of chickens that were illegally brought into Zanzibar from mainland Tanzania, were destroyed last week after importers failed to return them. A couple of them were facing prosecution after...

India Urged to Take Stringent Measures to Combat AIDS

South Asia's AIDS epidemic would grow rapidly unless eight countries in the region, especially India, can saturate high-risk groups with better HIV prevention// measures, according to a new World Bank report. More than 5.5 million people are infected with HIV in South Asia, with the epidemic increasingly driven by the region's flourishing sex industry and injection drug use, said the r...

NSAIDs In First trimester Linked To Congenital Anomalies In Babies

The use of NSAID by women in their first trimester could be associated with cardiac abnormalities in babies. // Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, NSAIDs, Cardiac septal defects, Journal Birth Defects Research Part B, Trimester, Pregnancy, Case control, Congenital abnormality, Diabetes Women who take non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) early in their pregnan...

Stringent Bird Flu Monitoring Accelerated In China

Stringent bird flu monitoring on a daily basis has been stepped up in China, the official Xinhua news agency has reported.// Following two out breaks of the much dreaded Avian influenza or “bird flu” caused by H5N1 strain virus, reported in China’s north-west regions two weeks ago. China has accelerated efforts to monitor bird flu status on a daily basis. At 86 monitoring stations. T...

Ingenious Biodegradable Heart Stent May Dictate Advancements in Heart Stent Technology

A heart specialist from down under has experimented with a novel type of heart stent that utilizes biodegradable tubes to clear blocked arteries. This could prove a blessing for// the multitude of people combating problems in the heart, due to blocks in their arteries. Heart stents are no doubt an ingenious intervention, extremely advantageous in reducing the number of heart attacks a...

FDA Proposes Stringent Warnings Labels for Pain Relievers

U.S. Food and Drug Administration have proposed that labels of commonly available painkillers should carry sterner warnings, that mention potential side effects. Drugs such// as Tylenol and Aspirin used as pain relievers are easily available to the public. The FDA has ruled that, the warnings will be compulsory and will have to be displayed prominently on the labels. The language has to...

Babies With Congenital Heart Defects Live Longer, Study Shows

The number of adults suffering severe heart problems due to birth defects has gone up by 85% from 1985 to 2000 a study showed, //indicating the benefits of evolved methods of diagnosis and surgery that has assisted in better diagnosis and treatment, thus extending the life span of such patients. Congenital heart defects are capable of impeding blood flow to the heart and vessels, in t...

Understanding and Treating Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

The diaphragm, a shelf of muscle that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity, is critical to sustaining life. A life-threatening birth defect known as congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), results from failure of normal diaphragm formation which in turn allows abdominal organs to migrate into the chest cavity. Abnormal lung development, so-called pulmonary hypoplasia, freq...

Shimla to Take Stringent Action Against Tree Felling

Illegal felling of a tree in Shimla could land you in jail for up to three years if a proposed forest conservation law gets implemented in this hill station. Official sources said fines of up to Rs.60,000 could also be imposed under a Forest Protection Act that awaits the government nod. The act has been drafted for Shimla by the forest department as the gradual deple...

Rapid Syphilis Could Prevent Congenital Disease and Stillbirths in Haiti

Congenital syphilis is a major preventable public health problem in many developing countries, frequently causing stillbirths or neonatal death and disabling children who survive. Often undiagnosed or untreated, syphilis is passed from mother to child -- even when mothers take part in prenatal programs to prevent the spread of HIV. Now, new research from Weill Cornell Medical Colle...

Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

A new study has found that adding folic acid to flour considerably reduces congenital malformations . The study, conducted by Universit Laval's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, has suggested that the addition of folic acid to flours has led to a 46 percent slump in the incidence of congenital neural tube deformation (mainly anencephaly and spina bifida) in Canada....

Folicacid Reduces Congenital Malformations, If Added to Flour

Dr. Philippe De Wals of Universite Lavals Department of Social and Preventive Medicine today publishes a study clearly indicating that the addition of folic acid to flours has led to a 46% drop in the incidence of congenital neural tube deformation (mainly anencephaly and spina bifida) in Canada. Such deformations either result in the childs death or in major health problems, includin...