Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
...the prevention and treatment of diseases affecting newborns and children on intensive care. Researchers will work towards developing treatments for a range of diseases in children such as meningitis, asthma, epilepsy and migraine. The network will involve all types of health professionals, the pharmaceutical...Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
...pdated advice from Dr. Mindell including: Giving newborns the right start on sleep Handling nursing and sleep Solving nap problems Information on cosleeping and making changes in sleeping arrangements Discussion of sleep issues in multiples New research on sleep needs in infants and toddlers Dr. Mind...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
... effect of varying options for saving the lives of newborns in Ethiopia, Madagascar, and one large state in India. Lead author Dr Rudolf Knippenberg (UNICEF) comments: "In the very countries with the highest burden of neonatal deaths, coverage of cost-effective interventions is low, inequitable, and slow to p...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...ences such as meningoencephalitis, particularly in newborns and young children. This week, Feuer et al. track the insidious path of CVB3 infection in neonatal mice....Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...iered analysis could improve genetic screening for newborns as much as forty-fold, while testing for dozens more diseases than is now performed in some states. Pediatric geneticist Piero Rinaldo, M.D., Ph.D., presented the findings at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Scien...Mothers' exposure to air pollutants linked to chromosome damage in babies
A new study of 60 newborns in New York City reveals that exposure of expectan...me abnormalities per thousand white blood cells in newborns from mothers in the low exposure group, and 7.2 abnormalities per thousand white blood cells in newb...Auditory screening for newborns can be successful, UT Southwestern researchers report
...ing for high-risk and neonatal intensive care unit newborns has been conducted since 1986. Universal screening of all neonates was begun in 1999. Babies who do not initially pass are rescreened by technicians before being discharged from the hospital. Parents of babies who still show signs of impairment are i...Health initiatives can help peace building in the Middle East
...bilitate 17,000 Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian newborns for hearing loss. CISEPO has now expanded from its initial focus on congenital hearing loss to include activities on health of mothers and children, promotion of health in young people, nutrition and infectious diseases. Overlapping components of th...Most adverse events in hospitalized children are preventable
...m the records of over 3,700 hospital patients from newborns to 20-year-olds. The researchers compared these da...eventable adverse events rates were 0.5 percent in newborns and infants; 0.22 percent in children aged 1 to 12 years; and 0.95 percent in adolescents aged 13 to...Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease
...11 of those infected with the new coronavirus were newborns hospitalized in intensive care. Analysis of the New Haven coronavirus's genetic structure showed many similarities to that of a coronavirus recently identified by two groups in the Netherlands, suggesting that the virus may have worldwide distributio...New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals
...eam that looked at the safety of hospital care for newborns and children treated in general hospitals. That st...vels of birth trauma and other safety concerns for newborns and infants. The new study used data from the NACHRI Case Mix Comparative Database, which contains ...Good parent-doctor relationships may improve the advice parents receive
...dy, researchers surveyed 402 at-risk families with newborns enrolled in the state of Hawaii's Healthy Start Program. Mothers were interviewed when their children were one year old. Nelson notes that because the study was limited to at-risk families, their findings may not be applicable to the general populati...Newborns with heart defect have low blood flow in brain before surgery
...al and cognitive abilities. A new study shows that newborns with congenital heart disease often have abnormall...The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia studied 25 newborns born at term with congenital heart defects. They found cerebral blood flow to be significantly lower...NHLBI stops sickle cell anemia transfusion study
...1 in 350 African-Americans and 1 in 1,000 Hispanic newborns every year. Patients with this disease have abnormal hemoglobin molecules in their red blood cells. The molecules damage the red cells, causing them to stick to blood vessel walls. This can lead to narrowed, or blocked, blood vessels in the brain,...Establishing pediatric stroke trials
... in collaborating or initiating clinical trials in newborns and children in regard to cerebrovascular disease. When: Friday, December 10, Saturday, December 11 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Where: Harrison Center, Glen Cove, NY...Infection puts extremely low birth weight infants at risk for developmental delays
...gy Branch, estimated that as many as 50 percent of newborns below 1500 grams may fall into the ELBW category. The study enrolled infants weighing from 401 to 1000 grams at birth. In all, 6,093 infants were evaluated for this study. The infants were evaluated when they were between 18 and 22 months corrected...News tips for Sunday, November 7, 2004
...s. In this study, researchers performed an ECG on newborns between the 15th and 25th day of life at 16 center...gnosing LQTS can allow preventive measures both in newborns and affected family members who may carry a gene mutation. ECGs also can facilitate early detection...Life saving option replaces open heart surgery in newborns
...gical damage associated with open-heart surgery on newborns with a congenital heart defect, according to Emile...t has replaced the traditional method for use with newborns at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. Using our new hybrid technique, we have a better c...UMHS researchers help hone use of substance to improve lung function in premature infants
...eonatal ICU's across the country to help premature newborns breathe more easily and comfortably. "It's a tool that is readily available. After administering the surfactant, we can monitor the results being reported on this tool to adjust the ventilator to the specific needs of each baby, individually. We're a......for asthma. Canadian researchers followed 170,960 newborns to identify factors that may increase physician-di... likelihood of early childhood asthma increased if newborns were male, were treated by a pediatrician as a primary care provider, lived in an urban area, were b...