News tagged with infants
Baby Einstein Controversy: Professor Offers Healthy Language Learning Alternatives for Young Children
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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(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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Oct 19, 2009 |
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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
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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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
Oct 05, 2009 |
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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
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 01, 2009 |
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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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Sep 24, 2009 |
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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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Sep 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Background TV found to have negative effect on parent-child interactions
Sep 15, 2009 |
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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 ...
Evidence that priming affiliation increases helping behavior in infants as young as 18 months
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Study examines decrease in delivery-related rate of death of infants born at term
Aug 11, 2009 |
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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 ...
Anti-growth factor drugs raise hope and concern for treatment of children's eye diseases
Aug 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
ART therapy for babies, mothers safely reduces HIV transmission
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Infants should be screened for hip trouble
Jul 01, 2009 |
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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 ...
Conversing helps language development more than reading alone
Jun 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
