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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
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
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
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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 ...
Likelihood of survival may be improving for extremely preterm infants
Jun 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Surgeon's remove 2-pound tumor from infant's face
May 28, 2009 |
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In the arms of his mother, Jordan Smith looks much like any other 2-month-old: a wide-eyed, chubby-cheeked child in green-and-yellow overalls and matching cap.
Music played to premature babies may lessen pain and improve feeding habits
May 27, 2009 |
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Music played to premature babies may help to reduce their pain and encourage better oral feeding, suggests research published ahead of print in the Archives of Disease in Childhood.
Study: Lower legal drinking age increases poor birth outcomes
May 21, 2009 |
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Amid renewed calls to consider reducing the legal drinking age, a new University of Georgia study finds that lower drinking ages increase unplanned pregnancies and pre-term births among young people.
Understanding the therapeutic process of mother-infant psychotherapy
May 20, 2009 |
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Psychotherapists who treat mothers suffering from postpartum depression and other mood disorders with their infants have developed a proven process that contributes to a greater positive experience with immediate insights ...
Babies brainier than many imagine
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 06, 2009 |
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A new study from Northwestern University shows what many mothers already know: their babies are a lot smarter than others may realize.
Even mildly premature infants have increased risk of a common respiratory tract infection
May 05, 2009 |
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Even mildly premature infants (gestational ages of 33 weeks through 36 weeks) have an increased risk of medically attended respiratory syncytial virus infection, which is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection ...
Maternal depression is associated with significant sleep disturbance in infants
May 01, 2009 |
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A study in the May 1 issue of the journal SLEEP suggests that babies born to mothers with depression are more likely to suffer from significant sleep disturbances at 2 weeks postpartum that continue until 6 months of age ...
