New book provides unprecedented look at role of religion over a lifetime
...o 200 mostly Protestant and Catholic men and women born in the 1920s. The participants were interviewed first in adolescence and then again in the 1950s, 1970s, 1980s and late 1990s. Drawing on these extensive first-person interviews, the researchers paint a picture of the place of religion in people's li...Full-term, low-birth-weight babies at significantly greater risk for early respiratory symptoms
Through age 5, children born at full term with low birth weight show significan...t 7 years of life," said Dr. de Jongste. A child born at a low birth weight had an additional 6 percent chance of respiratory symptoms if he or she was ex...Breastfeeding duration rates for infants born in an inner-city WHO/UNICEF Baby-Friendly hospital
... the Journal of Human Lactation reports that being born in a Baby-Friendly hospital gives babies the best ... studied breastfeeding rates among babies who were born in an inner-city US Baby-Friendly hospital. They looked at the factors influencing a mothers decisio...Probiotics could prevent necrotising enterocolitis in premature babies
...terocolitis in preterm neonates (premature babies) born before 33 weeks gestation, says an article in this...udied the results of seven trials involving babies born at 33 weeks or earlier and less than 1.5kg in body weight. In a meta-analysis (a study which combi...DALYs system for 'measuring' disability
...lity. The Viewpoint cites the example of a child born deaf, whose ability to function depends not only on its inability to hear but on the ability of its family and the community to use sign language. Dr Mont says: "The effect on someones life comes not from their functional status in this case their...Study confirms health benefits of whole grains
...sed foods," Mellen said. "Subsequent studies have born that out especially with whole grains. Greater whole grain intake is associated with less obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol major factors that increase the risk for heart disease and stroke." According to nutritionists,...No evidence older women generate new eggs
...iological dogma that mammals, including women, are born with a limited lifetime supply of eggs. Tilly repo...traditional view of fertility holds that women are born with all their eggs and they are released one by one (occasionally two) at each ovulation. At menopa...Honor for University of Nottingham professor
...ment of newborn babies, particularly those who are born extremely prematurely. His election to the Acade...dy, the first in the UK to study a group of babies born extremely prematurely and follow them longitudinally through into adolescence. The results of this...Early onset of poor bone mineralization revealed in children with cystic fibrosis
...with mucus. About 1 in every 2,500 white babies is born with this difficulty. The disease is much less common in Blacks and Asians. The authors believe that their observations of a reduction in bone mineral density, even in healthy children in early childhood, provide an argument for an initial CF defec...Serious illness among children with sickle cell disease reduced with vaccine
...ple are living with SCD and about 1,000 babies are born with this condition each year. Diseases caused by a bacterium known as pneumococcus are a leading cause of death among children with SCD. People with SCD are between 30 and 600 times more likely to develop pneumococcal meningitis, bloodstream infe...Infection takes high toll in young children
...mission records of more than 270 thousand children born in Western Australia between 1990 and 2000. The results, published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, found that one in 5 non-Aboriginal children and half the Aboriginal children were hospitalised at least once due to an infection by the ...Girls born with HIV infection at higher risk for cervical problems
A generation of children born with HIV are now coming of age and reaching sexual maturity. Girls in this group who are sexually active are experiencing a higher number than expected of cervical abnormalities, a new study finds. Researchers monitored the rate of first-time pregn...Study links breast cancer risk to epigenetic changes related to race, smoking and birth size
...ts of the National Collaborative Perinatal Project born between 1959 and 1966. "Weve been following a birth cohort of women who were all born at Columbia in the late 50s and early 60s," said Terry. "Were interested to find if early life facto...Global burden of childhood deafness overlooked
...ring loss of 90db or more. Of 120 million babies born per year in the developing world, an estimated 718,000 will have permanent bilateral hearing impairment as infants. Failure to detect and effectively manage permanent hearing loss in the first year of life has been associated with substantial and irr...Washington University surgeon develops treatment for foot deformity
April 5, 2007 -- Children born with a foot deformity that causes them to have a rigid flatfoot once faced extensive surgery to fully correct the problem. A treatment developed by a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown ear...Northwestern chemists develop new method for synthesizing anti-cancer flavonoids
...d compound was a teratogen, causing children to be born with malformations, such as missing limbs. (Ibuprofen also is a one-to-one mixture with one hand as the active ingredient; the mirror image does nothing.) After much trial and error in the lab, Scheidt and his colleagues hit upon a catalyst that, w...March of Dimes, Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute launch prematurity prevention partnership
...nce. Even babies considered "late preterm," those born between 34 and 36 weeks, are more likely than full... since 1981 and today more than 520,000 babies are born too soon each year; 400,000 of these (or about 80 percent) are late preterm births. In Kentucky, mo...Emergency Medicaid for immigrants goes to childbirth
...cy-related emergencies, and the fact that children born to mothers covered by the program receive full Medicaid, it may cost less to provide full coverage for contraceptive and prenatal care," DuBard said. Injury prevention initiatives, preventive care and chronic disease management would also help manage...William O'Brien, Jr., PhD, receives the 2007 AIUM William J. Fry Memorial Lecture Award
...Hotel in New York City, New York. Dr O'Brien was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942 and received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in 1966, 1968, and 1970, respectively, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. From 1971 to 1975, he worked with the Bureau of Radiological Health (currently the Cent...Babies born to South Asian women are at a higher risk of perin...before, during or shortly after birth) than babies born to black or white women, concludes a study published online by the BMJ today. The World Health Org...