Study shows benefits to newborns from federal ban on insecticides
...e results highlight the need to address continuing prenatal exposures to these and other toxic pesticides." The study is part of a broader, multi-year research project, "The Mothers & Children Study In New York City," started in 1998, which examines the health effects of exposure of pregnant women and babi...OHSU researchers discover possible connection between infant hormone exposure, obesity
...arly important to identify aspects of maternal and prenatal nutrition that affect the occurrence, duration and intensity of the leptin surge." While the full impact of this research is hard to predict, it is conceivable that after much more research, leptinbased therapeutic approaches may proactive...Prenatal nicotine primes adolescent brain for addiction
...hing special about exposure to nicotine during the prenatal period," Slotkin said. In search of a biological e...-- as compared to rats that did not experience the prenatal exposure. Nicotine's activity in the brain stems from its ability to mimic acetylcholine. The earlie...Motion that powers sperm provides key to unravelling rare genetic disorder
...f having further affected children to benefit from prenatal diagnosis. "We are currently investigating the role of this and other BBS genes in causing the disease in the hope that one day we may be able to develop effective treatments to alleviate some of the problems encountered by sufferers. Understanding ...Researchers find no link between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and asthma during childhood
... the inability to examine the effects of very high prenatal alcohol exposure, as we know that many fetal effects of alcohol are observed at a dosage of more than 100 or 120 grams per week." Yuan also said that these findings should not be interpreted as an indication of a "safe" level of alcohol consumption d...Gene discovered for Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a disabling genetic disease
...d definitive diagnosis of the syndrome, as well as prenatal testing for families who already have one child wi...e that a subsequent child will be affected. When a prenatal test is developed, we will determine before birth whether the fetus is among that one percent. At C...New York City study shows newborns more susceptible to pollution than their mothers
.... The study was designed to measure the effects of prenatal and maternal exposure to combustion-related pollutants, known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), on DNA damage. PAHs are carcinogenic air pollutants that are released into the environment as a result of combustion from car, truck, or bus engi...'Crack babies' do better when placed with non-family caregivers
... type of care provided to toddlers who experienced prenatal cocaine exposure affected their development. We fo...d the rest by unrelated individuals. We found that prenatal drug exposure was not directly related to the children's developmental outcome at age 2. However, w...Alcohol-use and depression among pregnant and postpartum women
...MHPCD). The MHPCD recruited women in their fourth prenatal month from a large, urban prenatal clinic in Pittsburgh, PA between 1983 and 1985, assessing them in their fourth and seventh prenatal ...Stem cell research targets cerebral palsy
...everything from oxygen deprivation during birth to prenatal infections....Genetic clues found for common congenital brain disorder
...he genes also should improve our ability to make a prenatal diagnosis," he added, "which has always relied upo...cerebellar defects." A genetic test could improve prenatal diagnosis. Currently, detecting Dandy-Walker with ultrasound images is difficult and often uncertai...New research suggests link between maternal diet and childhood leukemia risk
...tudy. "We're starting to see the importance of the prenatal environment, since the events that may lead to leukemia are possibly initiated in utero. Leukemia is a very complex disease with multiple risk factors. What these findings show is that the nutritional environment in utero could be one of those factor...New research suggests early diet may play key role in protecting against childhood leukaemia
...onmental factors," says Nagabhusan. "These include prenatal or postnatal exposure to radiation, benzene, environmental pollutants and alkylating chemotherapeutic drugs. Our studies show that turmeric - and its colouring principle, curcumin - in the diet mitigate the effects of some of these risk factors." In...