Statistician Keeps Health Researchers Ahead Of The Curve
...from 328 infants born to HIV-positive mothers. The mothers had beentested for vitamin A levels during their t...veloped a growth curve showing that children whose mothers were deficient invitamin A during pregnancy grew significantly slower than their counterparts,regard...Prenatal Smoking Leads To Antisocial Behavior In Children
...Ph.D. presented dataindicating that children whose mothers smoked before the children were bornengage in beha... infancythrough adolescence. Offspring of smoking mothers showed difficulty withattention as infants, but this deficit did not persist into later childhood an...UF Researchers Cite Possible Link Between Autism, Schizophrenia And Diet
...ve them. This struck us as interestingbecause many mothers of autistic children comment that they seem at timesto be totally deaf -- they talk to their children and they just don't seemto hear them." Researchers suspect the process begins in the intestine, where the bodyabsorbs the protein when a per...Breast-Feeding Hormone Lowers Nursing Moms' Blood Pressure
... the hormone oxytocin to lower blood pressureamong mothers who nurse their babies. The findings help explain why many breast-feeding mothers report feeling mellowand relaxed after nursing. "Oxytocin is most commonly known for its role in th...Women Born With Birth Defects Run Small Risk Their Children Will Have Them
...t of the findings," Prof. Skjaerven said, "is that mothers withdefects contributed very little to the total b...rn withbirth defects, less than 2 percent of their mothers also had defects. Thus womenwith defects don't add much to the risk of malformations in the next gen...UF Researcher Explores Complex Relationship Between Smoking And Fertility
...owever, is that the rate of smoking amongexpectant mothers has declined in recent years, from 26 percent in 1...hers trying to break the addiction, some expectant mothers turntonicotine patches for assistance. But animal studies have shown nicotine tobe harmful to fetal ...Study: Birth Defects Decrease Survival, Childbirth, Boost Risk Of Similar Defects
...alformed limbs. "Among the children of the mothers with these birth defects as comparedwith the children of the mothers with no defects, the relative risks were asfollows: cleft palate, 82; cleft lip, 38; clubfoot, 5.5; ...WIC, Medicaid Have Reduced Infant Deaths
...nd delivery. "Second, WIC participation by mothers is beneficial for infants at riskof death due prim...auses after delivery. In the sample group, mothers in the WIC program were found to beyounger, poorer and less well-educated than non-participating mot...USC Historian Sifts World's Oldest Printed Medical Books For Clues To Riddle Of Gender
...family life intheir clinical encounters. Wives and mothers supervised medical consultationswith female patients and children, and medical books attracted a generalreadership that included women. In discussing the contributions and careers of outstanding medical authors,mostly men writing for men, Furth intro......alth Organization recommendationthat, if possible, mothers should exclusively breastfeed for at least the first4 to 6 months of a baby's life. "The findings of this study are important for the prevention of asthmain children," Oddy said. There are several possible reasons for the findings,she noted. ...Major Causes Of Early Childhood Death From Injury Identified
...ants were more likely to die from injuries iftheir mothers were young, unmarried, had lower levels of educati...ecific riskfactors. For example, children born to mothers who were younger or had givenbirth previously were at twice the risk for suffocation. Infants born ...National Survey: Leg Crossing Is Taboo But Women Indulge Anyway
... Finally, younger women are more likely than their mothers or grandmothers tohave grown up with the advice that crossing your legs is the polite way to sit.Seven out of ten young women say they were taught this compared to almost halfof Baby Boomer women and only one in four older women. (70 percent for wome...Mother's depression impedes baby's development
When depressed mothers talk to their babies, their speech lacks many of t...edand women who were not. "We found that depressed mothers who were trying to interest their infantsin a toy - a stuffed gorilla - said the word 'gorilla' in a...Major study finds effects of child care quality linger into the second grade
...ualityof care is more important for children whose mothers have low levels ofeducation," Clifford said. "If children both had mothers with lesseducation and were in low-quality child care, then they tended to do muchworse in school. R...Coffee: a cause of neonatal seizures?
...s. First, caffeinecontained in the coffee drunk by mothers crosses the fetal blood-brain barrier.On arriving in the brain, the caffeine binds specifically to neuronal adenosinereceptors. Second, fetal oxygenation frequently declines during delivery, especially whencontractions last a few minutes, with a risk...Universal antenatal HIV screening needed in areas of high prevalence
...this cost and lead to gains in life years for both mothers and children, say Postma et al. In high prevalence areas, screening pregnant women for HIV is estimated to be a cost effective intervention with a net cost of less than 4,000 for each life year gained. In a separate paper, also in this week's BMJ..."Baby check" information for parents does not affect frequency of contact with family doctors
...l shows that routine distribution of Baby Check to mothers does not affect how often they consult GPs or health visitors. The authors were not aiming to affect consultation rates but an editorial by David Jewell of the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol argues that it is probably not ...Risk from getting pregnant too soon after a stillbirth
... anxious and depressed during pregnancy than other mothers and were again depressed a year after the birth of their live baby. The BMJ paper says: "As there are problems for mother and infant associated with high anxiety and depression during and after pregnancy, there may be an advantage in waiting 12 mont...Clues to heart disease seen in cholesterol reactions to stress
Healthy young men whose mothers and/or fathers suffered heart attacks react tomajor stressors with elevated blood levels of cholesterol and other lipids thatmay predict cardiovascular illness and death, new research shows. Elevated blood concentrations of total cholesterol and low-......mmenting on an analysis of the numbers of pregnant mothers taking folic acid, base their suggestion on the fa...arge scale health education campaigns to encourage mothers to take folic acid before conception, the proportion of women doing so is not much more than 30 per ...