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Extremely premature children at high risk of learning difficulties by age 11

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Children born extremely prematurely are at high risk of developing learning difficulties by the time they reach the age of 11.





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HPV vaccine may prevent preterm births

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created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Chronic human papilloma virus (HPV)-infections can lead to cellular changes in the cervix that can be a pre-stage to cervical cancer. Surgical treatment of these pre-stages gives an increased risk of preterm birth in subsequent ...


New, simple method identifies preterm infants at risk of eye disease

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created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Preterm birth linked to lifelong health issues

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created Mar 25, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The healthcare implications of being born premature are much broader and reach further into adulthood than previously thought, according to a long-term study of more than a million men and women by Duke University and Norwegian ...


Likelihood of survival may be improving for extremely preterm infants

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created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Premature births linked to physical abuse

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created Feb 22, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Premature birth can have serious effects on the development and growth of children. In many parts of the world, preterm deliveries are increasing in frequency. In a study published in the February 2008 issue of the American Jo ...


Common treatment to delay labor decreases preterm infants' risk for cerebral palsy

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created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Intravenous magnesium sulfate supplementation before preterm delivery cuts the risk for handicapping cerebral palsy in half, according to research led by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) obstetrician Dwight Rouse, ...


Pregnancy situations have impact on brain development in pre-term infants

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created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Brain development in infants who are born very prematurely is still incomplete. Factors that cause premature birth may have an impact on the development of the premature infant's brain both during pregnancy and later on after ...


Women with endometriosis need special care during pregnancy to avoid risk of premature birth

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The largest study to date of endometriosis in pregnant women has found that the condition is a major risk factor for premature birth, the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology ...


Safely transporting a preterm or low birth weight infant

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created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics should eliminate one of the many stresses of bringing a preterm or low birth weight infant home from the hospital.


Studies find few risks to newborn offspring of parents who are childhood cancer survivors

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Whether they can have children is one of the major concerns for adult survivors of childhood and adolescent cancer because fertility can be compromised by cancer treatment. For cancer survivors who can have children, two ...



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