Charting our health by the stars
...isits in Ontario, showing that, compared to people born under other astrological signs, Virgos have an inc...isorders associated with them, thus placing people born under a given sign at increased risk compared to those born under different signs. The study, whic...New data supports a non-invasive approach to routine prenatal genetic testing
...n newborns occurs in approximately 1 in 1,000 live born infants. Complications from RhD disease can lead to jaundice, anemia, brain damage, heart failure, and death. "We are making significant progress in developing our proprietary Fetal Nucleic Acid Technology and anticipate applying our novel appro...Prematurity more accurately predicted by advances in proteomic technology
...hool of Medicine. Buhimschi said that neonates born to women with an MR score of 3-4 had an increased incidence of infection. They also found that calgranulin C most accurately predicted inflammatory cell infiltration of the umbilical cord, and calgranulin A reflected more advanced inflammation, which...Older adults face double whammy when it comes to body fat
...8 to 1927). They found that at the same age, those born later -- who had spent more years during the perio...ody fat. For example, among 80-year-old men, those born in 1927 had about 10 pounds more fat and 3.75 pounds of muscle, compared to those born in 1918. "...Vaginal birth increases risk of hemorrhage in newborns
...round the brain are very common in infants who are born vaginally," said John H. Gilmore, M.D., professor ...s. "Obviously, the vast majority of us who were born vaginally and may have had these types of bleeds are doing just fine," he said. "Humans have been bo...Media coverage of autism differs dramatically
...ase Control estimated that one in every 250 babies born in 2005 would develop the disease, which is characterized by impaired social, communication and imaginative skills. This disease is one with complex, poorly understood causes, and is an active area of research in neurobiology in part because of the i...NOVA to air two-hour documentary on pioneering African American chemist
...ce, ethnicity or gender." Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Ala., on April 11, 1899, the son of a railway clerk. Julian's schooling was spotty in the segregated South of the early 20th century. Even so, he was accepted at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., where he excelled, graduating in ...Education does not protect against age-related memory loss, say USC researchers
...ngitudinal study of older Americans. Participants, born in 1923 or earlier, were interviewed up to four different times through 1993 and 2000. Researchers note that while the excess decline among those with more education is small, it is significant. However, they caution that other factors could accou...Improved neonatal care has helped reduce prevalence of cerebral palsy in premature babies
...hs. Infants of very low birth weight (VLBW)--those born weighing less than 1500 g--and multiple pregnancie...ants, in the period 198096. 1575 VLBW infants were born with cerebral palsy, of which 414 (26%) were of birthweight less than 1000g, and 317 (20%) were from...Prenatal multivitamins for undernourished women may reduce risk of low birth weight
...g regular prenatal clinic visits. If the baby was born at the hospital, information about the delivery, birth weight and health of the child was collected there; otherwise, the mothers were contacted personally and asked for this information. Newborns at the hospital were followed up for seven days to d...Inflammatory bowel disease doubles risk of pregnancy complications
...th IBD were almost twice as likely to have a child born prematurely, and more than twice as likely to have a child born below normal weight. Premature and low birthweight babies run the risk of developmental problems an...Stem cell activity deciphered in the aging brain
...brain ages, fewer new nerve cells, or neurons, are born in the hippocampus, the brain's learning and memory center. In one study, Shetty and colleagues showed that the production of new neurons in rats slows down dramatically by middle age -- the equivalent of 50 years in humans. But scientists did not k...RAND study finds adolescent Asian immigrants improve their good health habits over time
...cent Asian immigrants improve with each generation born in the United States, but health habits among adol...ncreased among the first two generations of Asians born in the United States. However, adoption of many of these same health habits remained relatively low ...Exposures to the insecticide chlorpyrifos in pregnancy adversely affect child development
...50 inner-city children from New York City who were born between 1998 and 2002. By age three, the children with the highest levels of chlorpyrifos at birth (upper 20th percentile) had significantly worse mental development and poorer motor skills than children with lower exposure levels. The more highly ex...Blocking an inter-generational cycle of obesity
...Innovation, Professor Caroline McMillen. "Babies born with a high birth weight have an increased risk in later life of obesity and associated health risks including diabetes," Prof McMillen said. "More women are entering pregnancy with a high body mass index and a range of studies worldwide have shown...RAND study shows little public money spent on health care to undocumented immigrants
...s of health care use by the foreign-born and those born in the United States. The study provides the most...estimate that $37 billion was spent on the foreign born 8.5 percent of the total costs. The study estimates $6.5 billion was spent on undocumented immigra...Stress, childhood trauma linked to chronic fatigue syndrome in adults
...eden, and colleagues assessed 19,192 Swedish twins born between 1935 and 1958, 1,570 of whom had chronic fatigue. Of those, 1,120 were impaired by their fatigue and 447 had the necessary four additional symptoms of CFS; these two groups were categorized as having CFS for the purposes of the study. Betwe...Healthier preemies and parents, thanks to a new early intervention program
... infants. Based on the 480,000 premature infants born in the United States annually, potential healthcare savings could total $2.4 billion if the program were implemented as standard practice in NICUs, according to the study's authors. The average per day hospitalization cost for infants in the NICU is ......esthetics reduce the rate at which brain cells are born and develop, a factor that seems to be important to normal memory function. They may also directly affect the rate at which beta amyloid proteins bind together. This could be worrying, as the formation of clumps or "plaques" of these proteins is char......, October 25, 2006, 12:30 PM EST) Premature babies born with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) continue to ... (Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 2:30 PM EST) Babies born at term with low birth weight (LBW) have minimal risk of experiencing poor lung function as adolesce...