http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Do infants only start to crawl once they are physically able to see danger coming? Or is it that because they are more mobile, they develop the ability to sense looming danger? According to Ruud van der Weel and Audrey van der Meer, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, infants' ability to see whether an object is approaching on a direct collision course, and when it is likely to collide, develops around the time they become more mobile. Their findings have just been published online in the Springer journal Naturwissenschaften. http://www.physorg.com/news173003137.html Medicine & Health Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:26:38 EST news173003137 American infants and toddlers watch TV an average of two hours a day, and much of the programming is billed as educational. A new study finds that children under age 3 learn less from these videos that we might think -- unless there's an adult present to interact with them and support their learning. http://www.physorg.com/news172216663.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:30:02 EST news172216663 More than a third of American infants and toddlers live in homes where the television is on most or all the time, even if no one's watching. A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions between parents and young children -and finds that the effect is negative. http://www.physorg.com/news172216142.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:10:02 EST news172216142 Most of us are willing to help a neighbor in need, but there's no question that we pay a price for our altruism. Not necessarily in money, but in valuable time and energy, and with no promise of payback. So, why do we engage in prosocial behavior in the first place? http://www.physorg.com/news171125945.html Medicine & Health Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:20:04 EST news171125945 During about the last 20 years, the risk of delivery-related death at birth or shortly thereafter for term infants has decreased nearly 40 percent in Scotland, with the largest contributing factor being a decrease in the number of deaths caused by a lack of oxygen for the baby during the childbirth process, according to a study in the August 12 issue of JAMA. http://www.physorg.com/news169226870.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:40:01 EST news169226870 A new class of antibody drugs may provide a powerful new tool for the treatment of eye diseases in children, but specialists need to be alert for the possibility of serious side effects, according to an editorial in the August Journal of AAPOS (American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus), published by Elsevier. http://www.physorg.com/news168510394.html Medicine & Health Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:27:02 EST news168510394 Giving daily antiretroviral syrup to breastfeeding infants or treating their HIV-infected mothers with highly active antiretroviral drugs is safe and effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission through breast milk, a study led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill investigators has found. http://www.physorg.com/news167492229.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:40:05 EST news167492229 Developmental hip dysplasia is the most common congenital defect in newborns. The condition occurs when a hip joint is shallow, unstable or when the joint is dislocated. Infants with the condition are often at risk of developing arthritis of the hip as a young adult. A new study published in the July 2009 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) finds that screening all infants for hip dysplasia can significantly decrease their chance of developing early arthritis. http://www.physorg.com/news165656221.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:37:32 EST news165656221 Adult-child conversations have a more significant impact on language development than exposing children to language through one-on-one reading alone, according to a new study in the July issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news165500537.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:00:01 EST news165500537 Infants born extremely preterm are surviving at a high rate, with about 70 percent of infants born alive between 22 and 26 weeks of gestation in Sweden surviving at least one year, with high rates of interventions being used to improve survival, according to a study in the June 3 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on child and adolescent health. http://www.physorg.com/news163157405.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:30:38 EST news163157405 In the arms of his mother, Jordan Smith looks much like any other 2-month-old: a wide-eyed, chubby-cheeked child in green-and-yellow overalls and matching cap. http://www.physorg.com/news162725794.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 10:36:55 EST news162725794 Music played to premature babies may help to reduce their pain and encourage better oral feeding, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news162671049.html Medicine & Health Wed, 27 May 2009 19:24:37 EST news162671049 Amid renewed calls to consider reducing the legal drinking age, a new University of Georgia study finds that lower drinking ages increase unplanned pregnancies and pre-term births among young people. http://www.physorg.com/news162130755.html Medicine & Health Thu, 21 May 2009 13:20:17 EST news162130755 Psychotherapists who treat mothers suffering from postpartum depression and other mood disorders with their infants have developed a proven process that contributes to a greater positive experience with immediate insights for the mothers to develop healthy connections between their maternal experiences and their infants' behaviors. http://www.physorg.com/news162045120.html Medicine & Health Wed, 20 May 2009 13:32:43 EST news162045120 A new study from Northwestern University shows what many mothers already know: their babies are a lot smarter than others may realize. http://www.physorg.com/news160843272.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 15:42:32 EST news160843272 Even mildly premature infants (gestational ages of 33 weeks through 36 weeks) have an increased risk of medically attended respiratory syncytial virus infection, which is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children and can lead to pneumonia in babies, according to a Kaiser Permanente Division of Research study. The RSV infection risk is higher among infants exposed to supplemental oxygen or assisted ventilation during the neonatal period, said the researchers, explaining that the need for oxygen is sometimes unavoidable for babies who need intensive care. http://www.physorg.com/news160753800.html Medicine & Health Tue, 05 May 2009 14:50:27 EST news160753800 A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that babies born to mothers with depression are more likely to suffer from significant sleep disturbances at 2 weeks postpartum that continue until 6 months of age. Findings of the study are of particular importance, as sleep disturbances in infancy may result in increased risk for developing early-onset depression in childhood. http://www.physorg.com/news160384516.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 08:15:39 EST news160384516 A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP demonstrates that the use of a consistent bedtime routine contributes to improvements in multiple aspects of infant and toddler sleep, bedtime behavior and maternal mood. http://www.physorg.com/news160383359.html Medicine & Health Fri, 01 May 2009 07:56:29 EST news160383359 New research from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford University School of Medicine is helping physicians unravel the cause of a deadly and mysterious bowel disease that strikes medically fragile newborn babies. The findings could lead to a better understanding of the disease and its medical management, and also shed light on the causes of sepsis, a major killer of children and young adults. http://www.physorg.com/news160029655.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:41:21 EST news160029655 Breast-fed babies grow more slowly than formula-fed babies, which is why new growth charts, based solely on the growth patterns of breast fed babies, are being introduced in the UK in May. This slower pattern of growth in the first year of life is possibly one reason why breast-fed babies are less likely to become overweight children later on. http://www.physorg.com/news159699110.html Medicine & Health Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:52:25 EST news159699110 A simple way of establishing which preterm infants are at risk of developing the eye disease ROP is to follow their weight gain. A new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, suggests that following weekly weight development might replace the need for considerably more expensive ophthalmological examinations. http://www.physorg.com/news158329409.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:23:55 EST news158329409 Monash University researchers have shown that babies born to a mother who smokes are more likely to be slower to wake or respond to stimulation - and this may explain their increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). http://www.physorg.com/news157974073.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:41:56 EST news157974073 When locked in mortal combat with infection, some mature white blood cells have a formidable weapon: they literally cast a DNA net -called a neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) -that captures and kills bacteria that invade the human body. But the ability to form this "death" NET is missing in the white blood cells of newborn infants, born either at term or prematurely, and that, in part, may explain why millions of newborns worldwide are at higher risk for a potentially deadly blood infection, University of Utah medical researchers have discovered. http://www.physorg.com/news156762861.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:15:17 EST news156762861 Estrogen may be a new postnatal therapy to improve lung function and other outcomes in preterm infants, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in an animal study. http://www.physorg.com/news156060657.html Medicine & Health Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:11:28 EST news156060657 A new study by physician researchers from Hasbro Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston identifies risk factors for the severity of asymmetrical head shapes, known as deformational plagiocephaly (DP), or more commonly as flat head syndrome. The study was published in the March 2009 edition of the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. http://www.physorg.com/news155939175.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:26:37 EST news155939175 The guys were all stressed out. There were new infants in the community, and the guys knew from experience that that's when invaders were likely to come and kill the babies, particularly the male infants. This annual threat was a defining moment in their lives -- it had more impact on everyone than the daily social struggle to be on top, or than any other community crisis, like defending the group against hostile neighbors. Nothing was more stress-inducing than having helpless infants around to protect from marauders. http://www.physorg.com/news155384143.html Biology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:16:30 EST news155384143 We all have goals and desires, but unfortunately, they are not always achieved. For example, a fouled basketball player tries for a free throw shot, but misses. It may be obvious that he wanted to make the shot, but the outcome did not match that goal. As adults, we are able to tell the difference between people's internal goals and the behaviors they influence. When do we gain this ability? Are infants able to "see" the hidden reasons behind certain actions? That is, can an infant tell that the basketball player intended to make the free throw shot, even though he missed? Earlier research indicates that older infants (15- to 18-month olds) are able to separate goals and intentions from actions, but University of Michigan psychologists Amanda C. Brandone and Henry M. Wellman conducted a study to determine if younger infants also have this ability. http://www.physorg.com/news152377762.html Medicine & Health Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:09:45 EST news152377762 (PhysOrg.com) -- The old real estate maxim "location, location, location" also plays a role in how infants learn to understand the ambiguous actions and behavior of other people. http://www.physorg.com/news151853797.html Medicine & Health Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:37:11 EST news151853797 (PhysOrg.com) -- Infants exposed prenatally to cocaine react more emotionally to stress and appear to have fewer stress-reducing coping strategies than infants with no cocaine exposure, researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) have shown. http://www.physorg.com/news151690493.html Medicine & Health Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:15:23 EST news151690493 The February edition of the Journal of Nutrition offers new insights into possible associations between infant feeding and health outcomes related to obesity. According to David Barker, M.D., Ph.D., professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Southampton, UK and professor of Cardiovascular in the Department of Medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University and one of the authors of the report, "A longer period of breastfeeding was associated with lower BMI (a measure for weight) at one year of age. This relationship disappeared by the age of 7 years." Similarly, there was no significant difference in BMI at the age of 60 years associated with duration of breastfeeding. http://www.physorg.com/news151323720.html Medicine & Health Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:22:00 EST news151323720