Leading pediatricians group recommends infants sleep in cribs, not parents' beds
...den infant death syndrome (SIDS) recommend putting babies to sleep in their own cribs instead of in their pa...n the October 2003 issue of Pediatrics, found that babies who sleep in an adult bed face a risk of suffocation that is as much as 40 times greater than babies...Research Australia unveils top 12 issues threatening our children's health
... years behind that for all Australians, indigenous babies die at three times the rate of other Australians and children at double the rate. 2. Mental Health experts are convinced more and more Australian children are suffering poor mental health with depression, suicide and behavioural disorders on the ris...Adult stem cells aid recovery in animal model of cerebral palsy
...ic brain injury that occurs in about 10 percent of babies with cerebral palsy, researchers report. Within t...can be used in the neonatal intensive care unit in babies with severe asphyxial brain injuries," Dr. Carroll says of cerebral palsy patients. He and other ped...Only one-third of women take vitamin to help prevent serious birth defects, survey finds
... That's the best way we know to spare thousands of babies the risk of death or disability caused by neural t... diet without having to think about it and their babies will be safer." Currently, enriched grain foods in the United States must contain 140 micrograms of...September 27th telebriefing on premature health
... virus season, which begins in late October, these babies are at a higher risk of developing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a disease that may be up to 10 times more deadly than influenza in children under 1 year of age. With the recent hurricanes and evacuation/relocation of hundreds of thousands of c...Leading experts discuss how to protect premature infants against RSV, a potentially dangerous virus
... virus season, which begins in late October, these babies are at a higher risk of developing respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a disease that may be up to 10 times more deadly than influenza in children under 1 year of age. RSV is the most common cause of lower respiratory infection and viral death in...Vaccine may protect babies from lethal infection
...arboring group B streptococcus in the vagina, then babies are not going to get it," says Dr. Daron Ferris, f...hat 1,720 newborns are infected annually and 70-90 babies die. The SPIN study Streptococcal Prevention In Non-Pregnant women aims to reduce that number by ...Timing of women's labor may determine effectiveness of pain medication
...volved 77 women who were in labor with their first babies and requested spinal-epidural pain medication. The research is part of the field of chronobiology that studies biologic rhythms. These rhythms include the circadian rhythm, the 24-hour body clock, and the ultradian rhythm, shorter-than-24-hour-cyc...New research offers clues to prevent brain damage in premature babies
...ghts into how to prevent brain damage in premature babies have been identified by a team of researchers supp...tors that prevent brain damage repair in premature babies and patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) or certain other neurological diseases. Their findings of...Study evaluates averted costs of neuroblastoma screening
...of screening for neuroblastoma by screening Quebec babies born between 1989 and 1994. In 2002, the QNSP researchers reported that this screening had not reduced neuroblastoma mortality and that it caused adverse health effects. As a result, widespread neuroblastoma screening was not implemented in North Ame...Babies born at night have greater risk of death, study finds
...INS, N.Y., AUG. 1 -- There is strong evidence that babies born at night have a greater risk of dying in their first month of life than babies born earlier in the day, according to a new study published this month in Obstetrics & Gynecology. ...Opiates better than sedatives for treating newborns in withdrawal
...ead of phenobarbitone. This helps keep mothers and babies together, helps in educating the mothers in mothercraft skills and to recognize signs of infant withdrawal, and helps in assessment of the quality of the mother-infant interaction in a supervised environment."...New study reports the risk perceptions of natural vs 'medicalized' childbirth
...e often methodically cold. And, upon the delivery, babies were swept away to isolation in a nursery. Much of this has changed. But, some would argue, there still remain many vestiges of this "medicalized" approach to childbirth--a paradigm that is being challenged by more natural, drug-free options like hom...Fathers more involved when paternity is established in the hospital
...iveness of in-hospital paternity establishment for babies born to unwed parents. The research shows that though establishing paternity at any time increases the amount of formal and informal child support and the amount of father-child visits, in-hospital establishment is associated with better outcomes. ...Every second counts for shaken babies
...archers are hoping to prove the dangers of shaking babies by creating a model that will show how quickly babies can be injured. The University of Queensland research team of civil engineers and a child health ex...Most perinatal strokes lead to neurologic disorders
...ain that control movement. The cause of stroke in babies is poorly understood, and is currently under investigation in several ongoing large studies of newborn stroke in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. "Our data do not directly impact the current treatment of perinatal stroke," said Wu. The authors did not f...Bedsharing, even with non-smoking parents, may increase risk of SIDS
...nt's death. The researchers found that 90% of the babies died while sleeping at night. Only 11% of the inf... they died; this association is magnified when the babies are less than 11 weeks old, regardless of how long they shared a sleep surface, their proximity to p...Low birth weight of a baby entails risks for the baby's father
... of death. The study also revealed that mothers of babies who have a low birth weight are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease than fathers. However, the most important result was a clear inverse relationship between the birth weight of the baby and the risk of cardiovascular diseases among fathers. Th...Study sheds light on the developmental origins of polycystic ovarian syndrome
...roduced conflicting evidence that shows that large babies grow to become heavier adults with polycystic ovaries, but that the most severe symptoms of PCOS are associated with growth restriction as a foetus." "Our research examines the relationship between symptoms of PCOS in adulthood and foetal conditions...Revealed: The true cost to the nation of multiple pregnancies
... with the known medical risks for both mothers and babies of multiple pregnancies, the economic costs underl...caps that are much more frequent in multiple birth babies than in singletons. These figures reinforce the necessity of preventing their occurrence with an ad...