Cedars-Sinai medical tipsheet for June 2005
...nvasive treatment for many congenital anomalies in babies and children. FLUORESCENCE DEVICE TO DIAGNOSE ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND TUMORS DESCRIBED AT OPTICS CONFERENCE At a conference on optics and photonics, the director of the Biophotonics Research and Technology Development Laboratory of Cedars-Sinai's Depar...Planned home births in the United States are safe, say researchers
...faction were reported, and over 87% of mothers and babies did not require transfer to hospital. "Our study of certified professional midwives suggests that they achieve good outcomes among low risk women without routine use of expensive hospital interventions," say the authors. "This evidence supports the ...Oral liquid hydroxyurea promising for long-term use in babies with sickle cell anemia
(MEMPHIS, TENNJune 15, 2005) Treating babies who have sickle cell anemia (SCA) with oral liquid...icity (HUSOFT), which was the first in which young babies were treated with hydroxyurea. The original HUSOFT study, published in 2001, demonstrated that short...Despite WHO/UNICEF push for 'rooming-in,' mothers and babies being separated at birth
...holm, Sweden, suggests that mothers who left their babies in the hospital nursery at night more often perceived that the staff believed that was where the babies belonged. Of the mothers who did not room-in, 73% were in favor of the option but were influenced b...A 'mind-reading' mum - rich or poor - is key to baby's progress
...ining can be given." The study, which focussed on babies at eight, 14 and 24 months, included making videos...e child showed no signs of this. At 24 months, the babies of mothers from poorer backgrounds scored less well in tests of language and play. And those in the ...Lifestyle, rather than fetal or childhood factors, critical for adult bone health
...tors, and has regularly tracked the health of 1000 babies born in May and June 1947 in Newcastle upon Tyne, north eastern England. Of the original cohort, 832 adults were traced at the ages of 49 to 51. Of these, 389 (171 men and 218 women) completed a detailed health and lifestyle questionnaire and underwe...Umbilical cord-blood transplants save lives of babies with rare genetic disorder
...ting the progression of brain damage in vulnerable babies and preschoolers," he added. Worldwide, infantile Krabbe's disease occurs in about one in 100,000 births. It is caused by a deficiency of the enzyme galactocerebrosidase, or GALC, which leads to a loss of myelin, a fatty covering that wraps around an...Infants with rare genetic disease saved by cord blood stem cells
...ns tolerate the transplants more easily than older babies and children. "Time is of the essence in treating...splant, whereas only 43 percent of the symptomatic babies survived, the study showed. While the child's age and symptom severity at the time of transplant are...Genes may influence nutritional composition of breast milk
...cts. One study, for example, found that premature babies who got DHA supplements had better vision and reached development milestones earlier than infants who didn't get the supplements. On the other hand, insufficient DHA has been implicated in developmental disorders such as autism, attention deficit hyp...Over-feeding in infancy might set the stage for childhood obesity
...ours. The mothers were left to interact with their babies and feed them as they would normally, using their ...s show that 3 out of the 4 obese mothers fed their babies an average of 19.7 kcal per body weight more than normal weight mothers. The children of the obese m...Liverpool placenta study could save lives
...have no effect on the baby. Patients having their babies in one of the research sites such as LWH and whose placenta remains inside them for 30 minutes after their baby is born will be asked if they want to take part in this study. If they choose not to, they will receive the current method of treatment ('...Routine procedure during childbirth provides no benefits, study review finds
... rather than the home, became the place where most babies are born. "Episiotomy was part of that package." Other aspects of that "package," such as frequent use of general anesthesia and routine use of forceps during delivery, have since fallen out of favor due to advances in scientific understanding. Howe...Babies show ripple effects of mothers stress from 9/11 trauma
...t Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) to their unborn babies through transgenerational transmission. The findin... Moreover, approximately one year after birth, the babies of mothers who had developed PTSD symptoms had significantly lower cortisol levels compared to that ...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for May 2005 (first issue)
...so increases the risk of hospitalizations of their babies for respiratory illness, of childhood asthma, and of dying from sudden infant death syndrome....Little evidence found for IVF as most effective infertility treatment
...of Aberdeen, Scotland, and colleagues, the rate of babies born from IVF procedures is not significantly different from the rate of live births from artificial insemination and a procedure called gamete intrafallopian transfer. The review appears in the April issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of T...Exclusive breastfeeding reduces risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission
...because it increases the risk of HIV infection for babies of HIV-positive women and the risk of diarrhea and respiratory infections for all babies," said Lawrence H. Moulton, PhD, the study's senior statistician and professor in the Department of International Health at the Bloomberg School. "Early exclusiv...Color doppler sonography speeds detection of serious illness in premature infants
...see free gas in the x-ray, it may be too late. The babies are very sick by then." Dr. Faingold said CDS can also be used to measure intestinal blood flow in adults, a procedure that could benefit patients with a variety of bowel disorders, including Crohn disease, diverticulitis and ischemic bowel. To dete...Every birth and death must be counted
... inequities. Unicef has estimated that a third of babies born each year are not registered--many of these unregistered children have no legal right to health care, education, or the state's protection. Bambas discusses the work of the new Health Metrics Network ( http://www.who.int/healthmetrics/en/ ), a g...Hospitalized babies with severe breathing problems may benefit from lying on their stomachs
...n Wells' hospital and others had also noticed that babies six to 18 months who were in respiratory distress ..." Wells says. If they did manage to lie down, the babies would roll onto their stomachs and flex their hips and knees up like a frog, she adds. The babies' b......n they are positioned on their fronts Positioning babies with respiratory distress on their front increases...onitoring. Due to the realisation that positioning babies on their backs reduced the general incidence of sudden infant death, doctors and nurses have tended ...