Pediatricians can help immigrant mothers by explaining child development, NICHD study suggests
Groups of immigrant mothers from Japan and South America knew less about child development than did their European American counterparts, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health....... Such gaps in parenting knowledge, the authors wrote in the November issue of Pediatrics, could have a negative impact...NICHD scientists develop vaccine against deadly hospital-acquired infection
Scientists at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the biologics firm Nabi have developed the first vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus, a major cause of infection and death among hospital patients. The study appears in the February 14 New England Journal of Medicine. ... "Staphylococcus aureus bacteria can be life-threatening and are rapidly growing resista...NICHD funded researchers discover gene for Rett syndrome
. Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Baylor College of.Medicine in Houston and Stanford University have discovered the gene for Rett.syndrome, a heartbreaking disorder which gradually robs healthy infant girls of.their language, mental functioning, and ability to interact with others. The.finding has immediate implications for both the development of a test to.diagnose...NICHD-Funded Researchers Show Estrogen Effects On Brain After Menopause
.In a groundbreaking new study, a Yale research team funded by the.National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has used.sophisticated brain imaging technology to show that estrogen alters brain.activation patterns in postmenopausal women as they perform memory tasks.. . According to principal investigator Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D., of the Yale.University School of Medi...First Trimester Screening For Down Syndrome Possible, NICHD-Funded Study Finds
. The first large scale study of its kind shows that effective screening.for Down syndrome is possible before the 14th week of pregnancy--earlier than.previous screening regimens have permitted, according to a study appearing in.the April 2 New England Journal of Medicine. Currently, screening for Down.syndrome is conducted between the 14th and 16th week of pregnancy.. The study...