National study finds no effect from reducing total dietary fat
...verage of 8.1 years. "Our diets start when we are born and it makes sense that what you eat over a lifetime will make a difference," she said. About 3,300 women in the Piedmont Triad were participants in the Women's Health Initiative, according to local principal investigator Denise E. Bonds, M.D., M.P.H...Preemies defy odds and overcome difficulties by adulthood: Study
...ople who weighed 1.1 to 2.2 lbs. at birth and were born between 1977 and 1982 as well as 145 socio-demographically comparable normal birth-weight participants. The low birth-weight infants have been followed from birth, the normal birth-weight children were recruited at age eight years. Both the low birt...Antidepressant use during pregnancy appears associated with withdrawal symptoms in newborns
...l, Petah Tiqwa, and colleagues examined 120 babies born between Jan. 1, 2002, and Aug. 31, 2004, at Rabin Medical Center in Israel. Sixty of the infants' mothers took SSRIs for prolonged periods of time, including during the third trimester. These infants and 60 control infants without exposure to SSRIs...Bank of America grant to expand community-based childhood immunization program in northern Manhattan
... vaccinate all of the approximately 6,000 children born annually in Washington Heights and Harlem and to a... network to reach and vaccinate all 6,000 children born annually in Northern Manhattan. The Start Right Coalition's latest research findings released today...Premature babies and SIDS: Doctors should make special effort to talk to parents About Risk
...nds that SIDS strikes very premature babies those born at the gestational age of between 22 and 27 weeks ...ter than full-term infants. Preterm babies who are born at a gestational age of 28 to 32 weeks died of SIDS almost two weeks later than full-term infants, w...New survey indicates preemie parents uninformed about RSV prevention
...ng more than 60 percent of those whose babies were born at 31 weeks gestation or less, say they are concerned about these potential health problems. "Helping to prevent premature babies from being hospitalized with RSV does more than just protect their health," says Dr. Pizzica. "It also keeps the emoti...Procedure allows women to freeze eggs to preserve future fertility
...overall success rate is around two to three babies born per 100 eggs preserved. Compared to conventional i...ization with non-frozen eggs--eight to nine babies born per 100 eggs--these rates seem low, but are likely to increase as the technique, which is still cons...Anxious fathers make caesarean ops more painful for mothers
...d improve the birth experience. One in four babies born in the UK is now delivered by caesarean section (CS), with many hospitals delivering almost 30 per cent in this way. Fear of pain during childbirth is often cited as one of the contributory factors for the increasing rate of CS delivery. But despite ...Induced labor has some benefits in cases of premature water break
...us labor groups, 2 percent to 3 percent of infants born under premature water break conditions will develo...uced labor deliveries, the reviewers found. Babies born after premature rupture and spontaneous labor may be considered higher risk patients than those born...White blood cell count, inflammation linked to cancer deaths
...Mountains Eye Study. All of the participants were born before Jan. 1, 1943, and were free of cancer when they were initially evaluated between 1992 and 1994. By the end of the study, on Dec. 31, 2001, 212 participants had died of cancer. Even when controlling for other factors that might affect WBC coun...Researchers find effective, cheap treatment for cystic fibrosis lung disease
... of a gene known as CFTR, Donaldson said. Children born with the disease soon develop chronic lung damage, since their lungs cannot clear excessively sticky mucus by sweeping it to the mouth, where it is swallowed and eliminated. Respiratory failure is the leading cause of death in CF patients. This rese...Norwegian torpedo boat service associated with increased risk of birth defects
...ent aboard ship. Eight of these children had been born with birth defects and six had been stillborn. All the children with congenital anomalies had been born to male employees. The rates of birth defects and stillbirths among these children were four times a...Hispanic asthma rates highest among Puerto Ricans
...f 17,555 Mexican-American adults showed that being born in the U.S. was associated with a two-fold increas...cian-diagnosed asthma. Yet among Mexican Americans born in Mexico, those living in the U.S. for at least 10 years had half the prevalence of asthma as those...MRIs better at diagnosing needs for 'bionic ear' implants
...o those with nerve deafness, which patients can be born with or can acquire as part of the aging process, ... hearing loss. They also work very well with those born deaf, provided they are implanted early, such as before age 7 or 8. "The earlier you implant the dev...10 million 'missing' female births in India due to selective abortion
...und that the sex of the previous child or children born affects the sex ratio of the current birth, with fewer females born as second or third children to families who are yet to have a boy. They also found that the deficit ...Viral infection at birth linked to cerebral palsy
...bral palsy and 883 control babies. All babies were born to white mothers between 1986 and 1999. Blood samples taken within a few days of birth were used to test for the presence of neurotropic viruses (a group of viruses including herpes viruses, which can all cross the placenta and infect the fetus). Exp...Vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy could reduce osteoporosis in children
... Hospital, UK) and colleagues studied 198 children born in 1991-92. The body build, nutrition, and vitamin D supplementation of their mothers were measured during pregnancy. The children were then followed up at age 9 years to relate these maternal characteristics to their body size and bone mass. Women w...National statistics for 18 major birth defects released
...r the families of the estimated 6,800 U.S. infants born with one, it's a heartbreaking experience not onl...i Gunther of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., whose son was born in 2002 with a cleft lip. Well-meaning friends avoided discussion of or dismissed the defect thinkin...The Wistar Institute licenses rubella vaccine seed stock to Microgen of Russia
...and 1964, leaving in its wake about 12,000 infants born deaf or deaf and blind. Their rubella vaccine was introduced for use by physicians in 1969, signaling the beginning of the end for the virus in the U.S. The Vishnevskaya-Rostropovich Foundation encouraged the agreement between Wistar and Microgen and...... pack per day increases the risk of having a child born with a toe or finger defect by 29 percent. "Recons...tates during 2001 and 2002, finding 5,171 children born with a digital anomaly where the mother smoked during pregnancy but did not suffer from other medica...