Plastic surgery patients honored for courage, altruism
...ters. Ashley McGrath, 20, of Palm Bay, Fla., was born with a combination of congenital deformities that often lead to death in infancy or extremely low IQ for those who survive into their teens. Ashley surprised her family and doctors by learning to communicate through sign language by age four but was ...Study identifies factors correlated with cerebral palsy
.... The study included 585 children with CP who were born between 1996 and 1999; 431 children were clinicall...rcent. In addition, 235 children (54 percent) were born at term, whereas 47 children (10.9 percent) were very preterm (born less than 28 weeks gestation), 6...New study: Preterm birth causes one-third of all infant deaths
...st year of life. "We have long known that babies born too soon face many challenges even death," said J...r, two-thirds of the infants who died in 2002 were born prematurely. This difference led the CDC researchers to speculate that premature birth plays a great...Low birth weight infants may have cognitive and physical problems when they reach adolescence
...gues studied 474 non-disabled adolescents who were born at or admitted to one of three New Jersey hospitals between 1984 and 1987 and weighed less than 2,000 grams at birth. The participants, who had an average age of 16 at the time of assessment for this study, underwent intelligence and motor tests in ...Twins have similar school performance to single-born children
...,411 twins and a random sample of 7,796 singletons born in Denmark during 1986-8. They also gathered information on birth weight, gestational age at birth, and parents' age and education. At ninth grade (age 15 or 16), they analysed school test results and found almost identical scores for twins and sin...Hope for significant new diabetes treatment in Stanford discovery
...tein. By 12 weeks of age, the mice, which had been born with a normal number of beta cells, were severely diabetic. Squelching calcineurin prevented the beta cells from increasing their numbers as the mice grew - more body mass requires more beta cells to keep blood sugar in check. It also reduced the am...Very low birth weight linked to reduced quality of life in pre-school children
...less and compared them with a control group of 170 born at normal weights to compare their quality of life when it came to physical, emotional, cognitive and social functions. They discovered that the very low birth-weight children scored consistently lower scores on a scale designed to measure quality o...Improvement seen in fetal survival following preeclampsia
... In 1967-1978, more than 25 percent of all infants born before 34 completed weeks died in the neonatal period, as opposed to 5 percent in 1991-2003. " preeclampsia was an important cause of fetal death in Norway during the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, but its impact has waned. While risk of st...Penn critical-care physicians recommend strategies when facing requests to end supplemental oxygen
...So this is yet another ethical dilemma in medicine born of technological advancements," adds Halpern. Both Halpern and Hansen-Flaschen have received requests from patients to stop their flow of supplemental oxygen, resulting in death. Halpern first grappled with the difficulty of withdrawing oxygen from ...Spleen may be target of successful therapy for lupus
... lymph nodes or the bone marrow where B cells are born as contributors to the effect. "The study tells us important things about the pathogenesis of disease in a mouse model that is very close to human lupus," Karin said. In mice, as in humans, the disease leads to overproduction of anti-DNA antibodies...Childless women risk poorer health in later life
...sed on a study of three separate datasets of women born from 1911 onwards in Great Britain and the USA. "We already know quite of lot about the impact of a person's very early life or their socio-economic history on health and mortality in later life," explains researcher Professor Emily Grundy of the Cen...Identifying risk for obesity in early childhood
...d more than 1,000 children from ten U.S. locations born in 1991. "They grew up during the period when the 'obesity epidemic' began to be noticed," said Nader. Nader and colleagues measured the heights and weights of participating children in the study at seven time points: three in the preschool age: t...Methamphetamine use restricts fetal growth, study finds
...e during pregnancy are 3.5 times more likely to be born underweight compared to newborns whose mothers did...ts show that newborns exposed to the drug were not born too soon they were born too small. Methamphetamine appears to restrict the nutrient-rich flow of bl...Overweight in early childhood increases chances for obesity at age 12
... that the children who took part in the study were born in 1991, and so were growing up during the current trend of overweight and obesity in the general population. The analysis was conducted on data collected as part of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. For the study, research...Older fathers more likely to have autistic children
... colleagues evaluated this association in children born during the 1980s in Israel. All men and three-fourths of the women born in these years were assessed by the draft board at age 17, during which time any psychiatric disorde...Low vitamin E intake during pregnancy can lead to childhood asthma
...-year period. According to the authors, children born to mothers from the lowest quintile of vitamin E intake were over five times more likely to manifest early persistent asthma than children whose mothers were in the highest quintile. "Our findings suggest that vitamin E has a dual effect on lung fu...NOVA documentary honors pioneering African American chemist Percy Julian
... Lives in Science series. Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Ala., on April 11, 1899. The son of a railway clerk and the grandson of slaves, his early schooling was spotty in the segregated South of the early 20th century. Even so, he was accepted as a freshman at DePauw University in Greencastl...March of Dimes: Drug to prevent preterm birth needs prompt FDA approval
... in a select group of women who already had a baby born too soon," said Dr. Green. "We hope the FDA will a...t." Nationwide, nearly a half million babies are born too soon each year and babies who survive face risks of lifelong developmental challenges, such as c...Low birth weight babies with reduced occipital regional volumes at higher risk for visual impairment
... study followed 68 infants in New Zealand who were born between 23 and 33 weeks' gestation. At term equiv... impaired functioning in childhood for prematurely born infants. These findings help us to identify where and what is different in prematurely born infants......a. The investigators enrolled over 1300 children, born in 1990, into the study. Around 500 of the children were found to have known risk factors for allergen sensitivity at birth. These risk factors are high level of IgE antibodies** in umbilical cord blood and/or at least two first degree relatives with...