Doctors miss chances to help pregnant women quit smoking
... socioeconomic status might be more likely to seek prenatal care. In any case, Moran says, smoking status should always be identified for pregnant women so that interventions to stop smoking can be started as soon as possible....Test opens prenatal genetic diagnosis to all
...ity in Brisbane. It should open the opportunity of prenatal genetic testing to a wider group of women. "This test will focus conventional prenatal testing much more effectively," said Dr Findlay. The new test is based around PAP smears of the type...Folic acid may have no immediate impact on Down Syndrome
...most Canadian cereal grains by 1998. They examined prenatal and postnatal incidence rates of Trisomy 21 in Ontario, screening nearly 219,000 women prior to fortification and 118,000 women afterward. They found virtually no decline in the incidence of Trisomy 21 in relation to fortification. However, Ray expla...Common nutrients fed to pregnant mice altered their offspring's coat color
...s on cells, said Jirtle. Folic acid is a staple of prenatal vitamins, used to prevent neural tube defects like spina bifida. Yet excess folic acid could methylate a gene and silence its expression in a detrimental manner, as well. The data simply don't exist to show each nutrient's cellular effects. Moreover,...Couch potatoes may be created in the womb, not at the dinner table
...esity. This observation led to a hypothesis that prenatal maternal environment might also affect other compo...dy from New Zealand investigated the effect of the prenatal environment on programming of voluntary locomotor behavior in postnatal life. The authors of "Sedent...New study provides first linkage of fetal alcohol exposure and enlarged heart
...n with fetal alcohol syndrome and animal models of prenatal alcohol exposure, and an enlarged heart (cardiac h...models is that low birth weight is associated with prenatal exposure to glucocorticoid steroids (any compound capable of significantly influencing intermediary ...African American teen mothers have greater risk for low birth weight and premature babies
...t gain during pregnancy, inadequate utilization of prenatal care, the presence of sexually transmitted disease...t gain during pregnancy. Inadequate utilization of prenatal care was evident in more than half the girls in the study under age 15 and 35 percent of those ages ...Stem cells delivered into back of eye hold promise for people with retinitis pigmentosa
...aped glial support cells called astrocytes. During prenatal human development, astrocytes guide endothelial cells into place where they can proliferate and form blood vessels. Later in life, under certain circumstances, astrocytes will proliferate and can do the same thing, acting as beacons to bring the st...UGA scientist to study effect of air quality on unborn babies
...s understand the magnitude and potential impact of prenatal exposure to a range of environmental pollutants," Naeher said. Trujillo is a city of about 750,000 people in a developing country. It has higher levels of air pollution than most U.S. cities. Peruvian standards and regulations on vehicle emissions, t......cal onset as well as for families who wish to seek prenatal genetic counseling. Funding for this research was provided through grants from the National Institutes of Health, the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association....World's largest scientific society holds regional meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
...e researchers will show how they can differentiate prenatal and postnatal heavy metal exposures through the tooth enamel and how knowledge of the exposures helps in the understanding and treatment of the problem. (Jonathon E. Ericson, University of California, Irvine, Environmental Health, Science, and Policy...... child with a devastating genetic disease or avoid prenatal genetic testing and subsequent pregnancy termination if a fetus is found to carry the gene mutation. PGD can also be used to select the sex or other genetic characteristics of embryos. PGD is giving parents profound new power to identify and select...Alcohol exposure in pre- and early post-natal stages may cause insulin resistance
...ubgroups: small and normal weight at birth. In the prenatal EtOH group, offspring that were small at birth had...ls levels. Surprisingly, however, offspring in the prenatal EtOH group that had a normal birth weight had a slower growth rate by 11 weeks of age, despite norma...JCI table of contents, January 2, 2004
...thelial cells of mice. The deletion did not affect prenatal lung morphogenesis or post-natal lung function, however exposure of adult Stat-3deficient mice to 95% oxygen caused rapid, progressive lung injury, pulmonary capillary leakage, and respiratory distress. The report indicates that while Stat-3 is not r...Study calls for end to age thresholds for prenatal genetic testing
... in many countries in relation to maternal age and prenatal testing for chromosomal abnormalities such as Down...hat the balance between health risks and cost make prenatal testing appropriate only for women aged 35 years or over. Prenatal testing guidelines recommend offe...Small amounts of alcohol or anesthetics may damage the developing brain
...The results of our study suggest that lead-induced prenatal damage to the developing brain may show itself decades following initial exposure to the substance," Susser says. The idea that damage from exposure to substances such as alcohol, anesthetics and lead can contribute to a wide range of psychiatric il...Studies suggest brain injury results from developmental exposure to alcohol, anesthesia, and lead
...The results of our study suggest that lead-induced prenatal damage to the developing brain may show itself decades following initial exposure to the substance," Susser said. At the same symposium, Washington University psychiatrist, John W. Olney, released new research relating to the impact of pediatric me...Biology behind homosexuality in sheep, study confirms
...ual preferences can be altered by manipulating the prenatal hormone environment, such as by using drugs to prevent the actions of androgen in the fetal sheep brain. In collaboration with geneticists at UCLA, Roselli has begun to study possible differences in gene expression between brains of male-oriented an...Deficits associated with prenatal alcohol exposure can be seen as early as infancy
Most of the research on prenatal alcohol exposure has been conducted with children....search on arousal and attention deficits caused by prenatal alcohol exposure has been conducted with children. An innovative new study, published in the March ...Prenatal exposure to second-handsmoke greater for disadvantaged children, study finds
The effects of prenatal exposure to second-hand smoke on mental developmen...ndations. While the study results indicate that prenatal exposure to second-hand smoke can be harmful to the unborn child regardless of socioeconomic conditi...