NASA technology helping injured US troops
... to strengthen his leg muscles." The SAM walker, born by way of NASA's technology transfer program, also gives patients with degenerative conditions like severe arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's Disease, cerebral palsy, and Parkinson's Disease an opportunity to safely extend their mobility. ...MRI scans in premature infants can predict future developmental delays
...tter of the brains of very pre-term infants, those born at 30 weeks or less. Following the infants from bi...ing wrong in the developing brain when the baby is born early," Inder said. "We can use the MRI when the baby reaches full-term (40 weeks) to predict neurod...Multiple Sclerosis in genetically susceptible twins is augmented by the northern environment
...niversity of Southern California found that people born in the north tended to come to physicians for diagnosis slightly earlier than those born farther south, and that the tendency for identical twins to both be diagnosed was greater in those b...Young teens see pregnancy as a way to enhance relationships
... to low birth-weight infants. Even healthy infants born to teen-age mothers are at increased risk of neonatal death. While pregnancy rates have declined in recent years, in 2000, more than 800,000 girls under the age of 20 became pregnant in the United States with about half of those giving birth. In r...Patent laws and US trade agreements are hindering access to HIV treatment
... slums of Mumbai In India, 26 million babies are born every year, and 1.2 million die in the first four weeks of life, a figure that accounts for a quarter of global neonatal deaths. India thus faces the biggest newborn health challenge of any country in the world. Researchers from Mumbai and London d...Study demonstrates successful HIV-prevention program for Latino youth
...e participants were Puerto Rican, with nearly half born outside the mainland United States. Participants averaged 14.9 years of age and 87 percent were students in grades 8 through 11. More than 40 percent reported having engaged in sexual intercourse at least once, with an average age at first intercours...Lung disease study hope for premature babies
...ry premature babies. Up to 40% of the 4,000 babies born under 28 weeks could benefit. Chronic lung disease occurs when babies are born before their lungs have full developed, or there is too much stress on the lungs from ventilators. I...Abnormal pattern of brain development in premature babies
...wk of gestation in 113 extremely premature infants born between 22 and 29 weeks of gestation. 63 of these ...e than the volume, is disrupted in babies that are born prematurely and the amount of disruption of the growth may predict whether there is delayed developm...New genetic model for Parkinson's disease
...severely in the dopamine cells. The new mice are born healthy from healthy but genetically modified parents and will develop spontaneous disease. Previous studies in the field have been based on researchers delivering neurotoxic substances to kill the dopamine neurons. In the new mice, however, mice dev...MIT researchers watch brain in action
...ystems in the brain." Although baby animals are born with a handful of neurons tuned to respond to edges of light at specific orientations, the ability to detect these orientations improves with experience. The more the animal is exposed to shapes, objects and light, the better it can perceive them. ...Inhaled nitric oxide reduces lung disease in premature babies
...udy of nearly 600 babies. For thousands of infants born prematurely each year in the United States, the tr...hat overall costs for the more than 500,000 babies born prematurely in the U.S. totaled $26 billion, or $51,000 per infant. The NOCLD clinical trial inclu...Prebiotics can cut development of skin allergy in babies at high risk
...vised to breastfeed their babies, all of whom were born after a normal length pregancy. But for those unable to start or continue, their babies were divided into two groups, with 102 given a prebiotic formula feed and 104 given a normal formula. The babies were seen on a monthly basis up to the age of 6...3-D computer simulation to aid treatment of collapsed lungs
...factant in the underdeveloped lungs of prematurely born babies, can lead to blocked airways causing severe breathing difficulties. To reopen a blocked airway a pressurised finger of air has to be forced deep into the airway. Dr Matthias Heil and Dr Andrew Hazel, of the University's School of Mathematics......aven in one of his patients, a 5-month-old patient born with gastroschisis, a life-threatening congenital defect in which the intestines develop outside the body. The surgeons had only been able to save a small portion of the boy's bowel, so he was unable to feed normally and was put on standard PN. He so...Study details why listeriosis rates are 20-fold higher during pregnancy
... stillbirth or premature delivery. Babies that are born to infected mothers are often themselves infected, and many die. From their earlier work, Portnoy and Bakardjiev knew that Listeria bacteria could not easily infect the placenta but, once there, could not be effectively eliminated. For this study, th...With cochlear implants, earlier use leads to better speech
...e, bye-bye," said one 3 and a half-year old child, born deaf but with a cochlear implant that partially re...y of Texas at Dallas. "Ninety percent of children born deaf are born to hearing parents, and these parents know very little about deafness," Nicholas says....Mayo Clinic pioneers new method of jaw reconstruction for oral cancer patients
...rming similar distraction osteogenesis in children born with small jawbones and wondered about the feasibility of using the procedure for adult oral cancer patients. Thus, they embarked on this research project to test it in animals and have tried this method on human oral cancer patients who were not app...Violence from male partners associated with serious health threats to pregnant women and newborns
... delivering prematurely and that her child will be born clinically underweight and in need of intensive ca... of abused women were 17 percent more likely to be born underweight. Both of these conditions pose grave health risks to newborns, and children born to abu...University of Kentucky Gill Heart researchers study abdominal aortic aneurysms
...re are currently 78.8 million baby boomers people born between 1946 and 1964. More than half of baby boomers will be age 50 or older by next May, and this January will mark the 60th birthdays of the oldest boomers, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by American Demographics. Abdominal aneurysm...The risky business of having a baby: why birth interventions are on the rise
...hat in a few years, the majority of babies will be born by surgery," says Dr Possamai-Inesedy. "Today's consumer-driven, desire-for-perfection society has constructed pregnancy and childbirth as a very risky business. Women are bombarded with all sorts of warnings about the hazards of pregnancy and childb...