Daughters of Indian immigrants continue trend of giving birth to small babies
...ither because they grew poorly in the womb or were born prematurely. They were also more than twice as likely to have babies that were small for their gestational age, regardless of whether they were premature. In other words, a generation in America didn't significantly improve or worsen the outcome for ...Dangerous glucose-hungry cervical tumors can be detected using PET scans
...survival with higher tumor glucose uptake has been born out in the additional patients. Further, the continuing study has clearly demonstrated that the overall (disease-free and disease-recurring) five-year survival rate was lower in the group of patients whose tumor glucose uptake was above the median of...Virginia Tech research finds Swedish method of human cartilage repair shows good durability
..., years? Thus, three years ago a collaboration was born to conduct what the two groups believe is the first research of human cartilage wear under controlled "in vitro" conditions. Brittberg's ACI method involves taking small samples of healthy cartilage from a patient's damaged joint, culturing the tissu...Vitamin C and E supplements do not prevent pre-eclampsia in pregnant women at risk
...s also found that more low birthweight babies were born to women who took the supplements when compared with those on placebo (28% vs 24%). Women receiving the supplements also needed more treatment, including steroids, antihypertensive medication, and magnesium sulphate (to prevent fits). However, there ...To live we need to breathe. Prior to being born we carry this activity out through the placenta and subsequently by means of our lungs. In normal development, the lungs of the foetus are filled with amniotic liquid and, on being born, the first cry activates this respiration surface. But the main ...Helping mentally retarded children and adolescents
...ssociated with mental retardation (MR) for persons born in 2000 will total over 51 billion dollars. While direct health and educational costs are significant, lifetime indirect costs due to productivity losses are much greater. Better efforts to understand the reasons for mental retardation and to develop...UC Berkeley study finds in utero arsenic exposure tied to lung disease and cancer in adults
...f Region II. The team focused on two groups: those born between 1951 and 1958, when the water supply to th...d relatively low arsenic concentrations, and those born during the high-exposure period of 1958 to 1971. Both groups, they reasoned, would have been expose...Pregnancy research leads to progress on premature delivery
...vention." Premature delivery is when an infant is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy. It occurs in about 12 percent of pregnancies in the United States and is the leading cause of infant death, according to the National Vital Statistics Report for 2004. When premature babies do survive they often face man...Effects of preterm birth and early environmental risks continue into adolescence
...irst studies to use brain imaging with adolescents born prematurely, New Jersey researchers report that th...l Child Development. Numerous studies of children born prematurely find deficits in cognitive ability and school achievement through young adulthood. The s...Topical antiseptic reduces umbilical cord infection and mortality risk
...e Lancet. In developing countries, many babies are born at home with the help of untrained attendants. Whi...h Organization recommends dry-cord care for babies born in developing countries, but does note that antiseptics might benefit infants born in areas where tr...Small birthweight and premature births associated with higher risk of child abuse
... The findings are based on almost 120,000 children born between 1983 and 2001, who had been placed on the ...gister. The association was not confined to babies born very early or very small, but was spread across the range of lower than expected birthweight and ges...Jefferson scientists test new device for fixing holes in hearts of young stroke patients
... did not close completely after birth. "We are all born with a PFO," says Michael Savage, M.D. director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia. "For most of us, the opening closes within months after birth." The symptoms occur--often in young adults--bec...Double transplants may offer one solution to short supply of donated kidneys
...to the needs of the recipient. People are normally born with two kidneys but require only about half the capacity of one kidney, depending on their age, size and other factors. With a traditional single transplant, a donated kidney is placed in the abdomen and connected to the iliac artery and vein, majo...New study shows benefit of early therapy in HIV-infected infants
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for infants born with HIV infection may be most effective when give...lected over the past 20 years on infected children born to HIV-1 infected women, the investigators concluded that "children who started their most potent AR......der called microcephaly, which causes babies to be born with a small brain and mental retardation. Dr Bond and colleagues from the unit have already pinned down several genes which, when defective, cause microcephaly. She is now studying one of these genes, ASPM, to find its function and to determine how ...Commonly used drug may prevent fetal alcohol syndrome
...omen to avoid alcohol, large numbers of babies are born with FAS. At present, no effective treatments exist that can prevent or reverse FAS after fetal exposure to alcohol. However, Alessandro Ieraci and Daniel Herrera now report encouraging results in mice that might one day change this situation. The r...UCLA finds cancer drug may improve progeria; genetic disease causes accelerated aging in children
... with progeria. One in four million children are born with progeria that can result in dwarfism, baldness, wrinkles, hardened arteries, and osteoporosis. Most children with progeria die from heart disease before age 15. In a new study, published Feb. 16 online in the journal Science, two UCLA researche...Early intervention with ICDs: Saving lives and money
...te life-threatening arrhythmias affecting patients born with genetic abnormalities in the electrical system of the heart," states Dr. Ilan Goldenberg of the Heart Research Follow-Up Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "However, data on the yield of this mode of therapy derives mostly f...Many new immigrants to US change diet -- and not for the better
...ey had prior to immigration, while having a spouse born in the United States is associated with a greater change in diet. The fewer changes the immigrant incorporates into his diet, the lower his BMI. The findings have policy implications, "particularly related to informing immigrants about the pros a...Common reflux treatment linked to life threatening bowel infection in premature infants
...erocolitis affects from 5 to 10 percent of infants born extremely prematurely, explained the study's first author, Ronnie Guillet, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, a member institution of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. With necrotizing enterocolitis, tissue lining ...