Use Of Surfectant Therapy Widens Gap In Death Rate Of Black And White Newborns
...te Newborns St. Louis, June 18, 1996 -- Premature infants with undevelopedlungs have a better chance of surv...found that the overall mortality rate of premature infants inthe study dropped 16 percent. However, the drop was traced to a 41 percentdecrease in the death ra...Maternal Exposure To Crack Cocaine Produces Stressed Newborns
...y the NationalInstitutes of Health, of about 1,400 infants and children. Given that studiesof crack babies in...movebecause they were stiff." Some cocaine-exposed infants were also drowsier andhad a weaker crawl than non-exposed babies. Napiorkowski and co-researchers in...Partial Liquid Breathing Improves Lung Function, Chances of Survival in Sick Preemies
...spiratory distress syndrome in extremely premature infants has shown that the procedure is safe and effective...duction of liquid into the lung and the ability of infants to breathe with liquid allows us to ventilate the lung at lower pressure, which causes less damage,"......e identification of a way to single out those HIV+ infants at highest risk for the rapid and aggressive devel...e not known conclusively how to predict which HIV+ infants will fall into which category. Thymus dysfunction was common to the majority of HIV+ infants whose ...Postmature Infants Not As Easily Calmed As Other Newborns
...covered the diminishedcalming effect in postmature infants while studying how babiesdevelop early attachments...Smith and other researchers showed thatnormal-term infants stopped crying when given a solutioncontaining 14 percent sucrose, or table sugar, and the postmatur...Premature Birth Sometimes Can Adversely Affect Infant's Ties To Mother
...lity of parent-infant attachment between premature infants ofless risk and normal infants. The researchers o...nteraction in homes and in a laboratory.All of the infants had spent an average of three months in intensive careat the University of Michigan Hospital and had...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
...ssion of HIV from infected pregnant women to their infants when added to the standard AZT-based preventive tr...short-term serious side effects in either women or infants were observed in either Pediatric ACTG Protocol 185 or 076. However, information on long-term safet...Mother's Milk: Nutrition And Nurture For Infants -- And The Best Defense Against Disease
...nd other health care providers serving mothers and infants will joinin observing the sixth annual World Breas... professionals as the idealsource of nutrition for infants in almost every case. In addition, the nurturingrelationship engendered by breastfeeding contributes...Ultrasound Helps Pediatric Heart Surgeons After Open Heart Surgery
...tawa, Canada, have studied about 60 patients from infants to 18year olds and intend to double this number by the end of the study. The investigators will present their findings August 14th at the InternationalNeurosonology '97 meeting here sponsored by the World Federation of Neurologyand the Bowma...Duke Obtains FDA Designation For Pompe Disease Therapy
...y, the therapy developed at Duke will be tested in infants withthe most severe symptoms and for whom the dise..., anticipates that recombinantenzyme injected into infants will be taken up by their muscle cells andrestore normal glycogen levels. This treatment, known as a...X-Rays: How Big A Risk To Kids? UF Researchers Seek Answers
...uch ascatheters in treating the babies and because infants experience much morerapid internalchanges than adults, said Jon Williams, chief of pediatric radiology atShands. Because children's cells divide rapidly as they grow, they are far moresensitive than adults to the chromosome-damaging effects ...Effects Of 15% Oxygen On Breathing Patterns And Oxygenation In Infants
...ant deaths occurring during flight. Assuming that infants account for one in 500 passengers, 750,000 infants have travelled safely over the last ten years, estimates Milner. He concludes by saying that so lon......earlier treatment ofventilator-dependent premature infants with the drug dexamethasone isbeneficial. The investigators enrolled 371 very-low-birth-weight infants whoweighed between 1 and 3 pounds from 12 centers of the NICHD Neonatal ResearchNetwork. The infant...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...istive technology materials to support the play of infants and toddlers with physical and developmental disab...odel, the focus of which is to facilitate play for infants with physical disabilities, is being replicated at two other sites in New York State. For David Ben...Advisory: Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine
...cine, a viral pathogen that produces bronchitis in infants and childrenand is responsible for high morbidity rates in infants. Maassab is also in theprocess of developing a vaccine to tackle types one, two and three of theparainfluenza virus. "These are the most important respiratory pathogens in humans whi...How Can Parents Treat Colic In Their Babies?
...tile colic - excessive crying in healthy, thriving infants - is a self -limiting condition which is usually r...rents to be more appropriately responsive to their infants and more effectively soothing, may help reduce crying. The authors argue strongly that drug treatme...Ulcer Drug Linked To Birth Defects
...thefirst trimester between mothers of 96 Brazilian infants diagnosed with Mobiussyndrome and mothers of 96 infants with neural tube defects. Among the mothersof infants with Mobius syndrome, 47 (49 per cent) had tak...Extreme Prematurity Brings Two-Fold Increase In Risk Of Repeating A Grade, Needing Special Education
... center, between 1983 and 1986. The 219 full-term infants used as controls were selected randomly from live births at the hospital during the same period. Children's Hospital has one of the oldest groups of survivors of extreme prematurity. A neonatologist at Children's developed lung surfactant and p......ies at birth when they are uncertain about how the infants willfare or when they don't know parents' wishes, ...se wishes. Resuscitation of such premature infants generally postpones death byonly a few days, if death occurs, but does not contribute substantially ...Study Ties Cerebral Palsy To Inflammation And Blood-Clotting Abnormalities
...tion (blood-clotting) factors, in blood taken from infants shortly afterbirth. The results were dramatic. A...ncentrations ofdifferent substances are normal for infants of different ages and to examine howlevels of these factors might become elevated and lead to brain ...