News tagged with human birth
Scientists identify gene vital to early embryonic cells forming a normal heart and skull
Jun 16, 2009 |
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New research from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center highlights the critical role a certain gene and its protein play during early embryonic development on formation of a normal heart and skull.
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'You will give birth in pain': Neanderthals too
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of California at Davis (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) present a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal ...
Women with endometriosis need special care during pregnancy to avoid risk of premature birth
Jul 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Zinc supplements during pregnancy may counteract damage from early alcohol exposure
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Animal research has shown that binge drinking - even just once - during early pregnancy can cause numerous problems for the fetus, including early postnatal death. Fetal zinc deficiency may explain some of the birth defects ...
Anthropologist's studies of childbirth bring new focus on women in evolution
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Contrary to the TV sitcom where the wife experiencing strong labor pains screams at her husband to stay away from her, women rarely give birth alone. There are typically doctors, nurses and husbands in hospital ...
Scientists identify gene for deadly inherited lung disease
Jun 04, 2009 |
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A rare, deadly developmental disorder of the lungs called alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) that usually kills the infants born with it within the first month of life results from ...
Magic ingredient in breast milk protects babies' intestines
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that an ingredient in human breast milk protects and repairs the delicate intestines of newborn babies.
Milk protein supplement may help prevent sepsis in very low birth-weight infants
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Very low birth-weight newborns who received the milk protein lactoferrin alone or in combination with a probiotic had a reduced incidence of late-onset sepsis, according to a study in the October 7 issue of JAMA.
No experience required: Category-specific brain organization in sighted and blind humans
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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A new study finds a surprising similarity in the way neural circuits linked to vision process information in both sighted individuals and those who have been blind since birth. The research, published by Cell Press in the ...
Falling birth rates shift rotavirus epidemics
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Fewer births in states such as California may be delaying the annual onset of a common intestinal virus in the southwest, according to epidemiologists. The timing of infectious outbreaks in other locations such as the northeast ...
HPV vaccine may prevent preterm births
Mar 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
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