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Research finds the mum-bub bond may reduce neglect

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UQ researcher Dr Lane Strathearn sees strengthening the bond between mother and baby as a possible way of reducing childhood neglect.


Screening method able to identify newborns with blood disorder that affects immune system

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The testing of DNA from a statewide blood screening program for newborns in Wisconsin was able to identify infants with T-cell lymphopenia, a blood disorder that affects the child's immune system, a disease in which early ...


Not all parents place their babies 'back to sleep,' research finds

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

Placing infants on their backs for sleep can help reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). But a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues shows that while the practice helped reduce ...


New screening tool helps identify children at risk

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created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When a baby is born, new parents often wonder, "Will he be the next President of the United States?" or "Could she be the one to find a cure for cancer?" But the underlying question for many specialists is, "Is this child ...


New gene findings will help guide treatment in infant leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pediatric oncologists have identified specific genes, dubbed partner genes, that fuse with another gene to drive an often-fatal form of leukemia in infants. By more accurately defining specific partner genes, researchers ...


Defining feeding milestones in neonates helps improve quality of life

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

A recent study conducted by researchers and physicians at Nationwide Children's Hospital sheds new light on feeding challenges often faced by premature infants. Although the prevalence of this disorder is well recognized, ...


Early intervention for toddlers with autism highly effective, study finds

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created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A novel early intervention program for very young children with autism - some as young as 18 months - is effective for improving IQ, language ability, and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found.


Baby Einstein Controversy: Professor Offers Healthy Language Learning Alternatives for Young Children

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Baby Einstein videos have become a staple in many American households until recently when the Walt Disney Company decided to refund the product, acknowledging that these ever-popular videos were not intended ...


Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue ...


Maternal HIV-1 treatment protects against transmission to newborns

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mothers receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat HIV-1 infection are less likely than untreated mothers to transmit the virus to their newborns through breastfeeding, according to a new study. The findings, ...


Study examines interventions for extremely preterm infants

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When compared with infants born between 1993 and 1995, more infants born at 22 to 24 weeks' gestation at one academic medical center in 2001 to 2003 received life-sustaining interventions but were no more likely to survive, ...


Smoking during pregnancy a cause of social inequality in stillbirths

Smoking during pregnancy a cause of social inequality in stillbirths

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tackling smoking during pregnancy may help to reduce socio-economic inequalities in stillbirths and infant deaths by as much as 30-40 per cent, according to a new Oxford University-led study ...


Leg movement training in preterm infants demonstrates positive changes in motor skills

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

Preterm infants who receive leg movement training display feet-reaching behaviors similar to that of full-term infants, according to a randomized controlled trial reported in the October issue of Physical Therapy (PTJ), the sc ...


Babies see it coming

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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 ...


Children under 3 can't learn action words from TV -- unless an adult helps

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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 ...