939 Articles Matching "babies"
Brief general anesthesia appears safe for children's brains
Feb 19, 2019(Reuters Health) - In infants, an hour of general anesthesia - long enough for most minor surgeries done in babies - doesn't increase the risk of impaired brain development compared to an hour of regional anesthesia, a study suggests....
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Triplets Born Early Use Lullaby-Playing Pacifier As Part Of A Study Aimed To Help Premature Babies Develop, Feed
Feb 15, 2019
It’s a Friday morning in January when Jana Gallus, 32, and Gregor Martynus, 35, peek their heads over their triplets’ set of bassinets in their Westwood apartment. Six-month-olds Ada, Kian and Nico are just waking up, kicking with excitement and beaming from ear to ear.
It’s a daily moment that Gal......
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URI Nursing Study Shows Benefits Of Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping On Brain Development In Healthy Babies
Feb 14, 2019
A five-minute delay in the clamping of healthy infants’ umbilical cords results in increased iron stores and brain myelin in areas important for early-life functional development, a new University of Rhode Island nursing study has found.
“When we wait five minutes to clamp the cords of healthy babi......
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Evidence Emerges That Promising Flu Killer Drug Doesn’t Work Well For Some Patients
Feb 12, 2019A mutant viral strain can stop the anti-flu medication Xofluza from working. Other public health news reported over the weekend covers depression, mental health struggles, gene-edited babies, anti-aging research, medication dosages for kids, hospital toxic waste, multiple sclerosis and...
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Preemies With Most Common Heart Defect Benefit From New Procedure
Feb 08, 2019
Maxwell and Mason Bradford were born at 27 weeks gestation – about 13 weeks early. Each weighed just 2 pounds, 10 ounces. Like many extremely premature babies, both Maxwell and Mason were born with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), the most common heart-related birth defect, which is commonly called “......
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AstraZeneca's infant respiratory drug prioritised in Europe, U.S.
Feb 06, 2019Britain's AstraZeneca said a potential medicine to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in babies and infants had been granted special status by U.S. and European regulators, designed to speed up the development of novel and better drugs....
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Mother's friendships may be good for babies' brains
Feb 02, 2019(Reuters Health) - When new mothers have friends ready to step in and help them, they have toddlers who score better on cognitive tests than the babies of women with smaller social support networks, a U.S. study suggests....
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Pregnant women with severe flu more likely to have poor outcomes
Feb 01, 2019(Reuters Health) - Pregnant women so sick with influenza that they're admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are more likely to have premature and underweight babies than expectant mothers with milder flu and those who don't catch flu at all, a recent study suggests....
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Other factors may explain preterm births associated with IVF
Jan 31, 2019(Reuters Health) - Women are more likely to have preemies when they use reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization (IVF), but a new study comparing outcomes for these babies to siblings conceived naturally suggests that other factors may be the cause of these early arrivals....
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Climate change could hurt babies' hearts
Jan 31, 2019Heat and pregnancy do not mix. High temps don't just make a pregnant woman uncomfortable, the heat can actually hurt the health of her baby -- and with climate change, this will probably become a bigger problem....
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Transplanting Pig Hearts Into Sick Babies May Be A Promising Temporary Treatment Option
Jan 30, 2019
Xenotransplantation — transplanting organs from animals into humans — is one step closer to becoming a possibility for infants awaiting human heart transplantation, according to research presented by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers at the annual Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting t......
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Climate Change Could Alter Proportion of Male/Female Babies: Study
Jan 27, 2019Title: Climate Change Could Alter Proportion of Male/Female Babies: StudyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/25/2019 12:00:00...
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Infant deaths are on the rise in Venezuela
Jan 27, 2019More babies are dying before their first birthdays in Venezuela as the country is mired a severe economic and political crisis, according to a study published Thursday in The Lancet Global Health....
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Lactalis recalls baby milk from Spanish site linked to salmonella
Jan 26, 2019Dairy group Lactalis said on Friday it was recalling one of its infant formula brands as a precautionary move as the product was supplied by the same Spanish factory linked to several salmonella cases among babies in France....
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Savencia unit recalls baby milk in France after salmonella alert
Jan 25, 2019Sodilac, a unit of French dairy group Savencia, said it was recalling infant formula sold in pharmacies in France and produced at a Spanish factory due to possible links with salmonella cases among babies....
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Infant deaths are on the rise in Venezuela, reversing years of improvements, study says
Jan 25, 2019More babies are dying before their first birthdays in Venezuela as the country is mired a severe economic and political crisis, according to a study published Thursday in The Lancet Global Health....
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Delaying Baby's First Bath May Bring Benefits
Jan 25, 2019Delaying the first bath provides more initial skin-to-skin time between mother and baby, and preserves smell, which may encourage babies to latch, the study authors...
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Toxic substances found in nappies in France: government agency
Jan 24, 2019A variety of potentially toxic substances, including the widely-used weed-killer glyphosate, has been found in babies' nappies in France, according to a study on Wednesday by the French environment agency ANSES....
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Toxic substances found in diapers in France: government agency
Jan 24, 2019A variety of potentially toxic substances, including the widely-used weed-killer glyphosate, has been found in babies' diapers in France, according to a study on Wednesday by the French environment agency ANSES....
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