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Giving an additional early vaccination may reduce measles outbreaks
Jul 25, 2008 |
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Outbreaks of measles in developing countries may be reduced by vaccinating infants at 4.5 months of age as well as at the World Health Organization's recommended routine vaccination at 9 months, according to a study published ...
Vaccine expert advises: Immunization should be given as early in life as possible
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Parents should not be worried, that early vaccination would overwhelm their babies. Recent data show, that the immune system of newborns is able to respond to a world full of antigens already at birth. Therefore, vaccines ...
Autism's origins: Mother's antibody production may affect fetal brain
Feb 25, 2008 |
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The mothers of some autistic children may have made antibodies against their fetuses’ brain tissue during pregnancy that crossed the placenta and caused changes that led to autism, suggests research led by Johns Hopkins Children’s ...
Research rules out link between specific antibodies and spina bifida
Jul 08, 2009 |
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New research, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that a woman's risk of having a child with a neural tube defect (NTD), such as Spina Bifida, is not linked to folic acid related auto-antibodies. The f ...
Maternal immune response to fetal brain during pregnancy a key factor in some autism
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 17, 2009 |
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New studies in pregnant mice using antibodies against fetal brains made by the mothers of autistic children show that immune cells can cross the placenta and trigger neurobehavioral changes similar to autism in the mouse ...
Rethinking the antibody-dependent enhancement dengue hemorrhagic fever model
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Research published this week in PLoS Medicine challenges the dogma of the antibody-dependent enhancement model (ADE) for the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).
Exposure to young triggers new neuron creation in females exhibiting maternal behavior
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Maternal behavior itself can trigger the development of new neurons in the maternal brain independent of whether the female was pregnant or has nursed, according to a study released by researchers at Tufts University's Cummings ...
Mother's immune system may block fetal treatments for blood diseases
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Pediatric researchers have resolved an apparent contradiction in the field of prenatal cell transplantation— a medical approach that holds future promise in correcting sickle cell disease and other serious congenital blood ...
Prenatal exposure to maternal antibodies linked to autistic behaviors in offspring
Feb 11, 2008 |
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New research from the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute shows that an interaction between fetal brain cells and maternal antibodies could be linked with the repetitive behavior – also called stereotypies – that is characteristic ...
Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy, early childhood more likely to smoke as adults
May 19, 2009 |
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Children of mothers who smoked during pregnancy and their early childhood years may be predisposed to take up smoking as teens and young adults, compounding the physical damage they sustained from the smoke exposure.
NIH launches 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine trials in HIV-infected pregnant women
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 10, 2009 |
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The first clinical trials to test whether the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine can safely elicit a protective immune response in pregnant women launched yesterday, and a trial to conduct the same test in HIV-infected children ...
Pregnant mom's exposure to flu vaccine kick-starts fetal immune system
Jun 01, 2007 |
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Some researchers have hypothesized that the fetus can be exposed to and mount an immune response against allergens to which the mother has been exposed, and this may have an effect on the development of allergic sensitivity ...
New placenta screening for high-risk pregnancies
Apr 02, 2007 |
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For the first time ever, a team of Toronto researchers are using a combination of ultrasound and blood tests to screen high-risk pregnant mothers for placental damage. By completing these non-invasive tests, most high-risk ...
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity problems associated with low folate levels in pregnant women
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 28, 2009 |
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It has long been suggested that healthy folate (the natural form of folic acid) levels in expectant mothers goes hand in hand with healthy nervous system development in their children. A study published in an upcoming issue ...
Researchers find childhood cancer risk rises with mother's age
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Research from the Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota indicates that a baby born to an older mother may have a slightly increased risk for many of the cancers that occur during childhood.
