News tagged with mothers blood
Expectant mothers on antidepressants risk newborns with high blood pressure
Mothers who take anti-depressants during pregnancy are more likely to give birth to children with persistent pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs) finds a study published today on bmj.com.
Jan 13, 2012 |
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How patients will respond to immunomodulator therapy for multiple myeloma
Research on the same protein that was a primary mediator of the birth defects caused by thalidomide now holds hope in the battle against multiple myeloma, says the study's senior investigator, Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B. of ...
Dec 11, 2011 |
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Breastfeeding benefits mothers with reduced blood pressure risk
(Medical Xpress) -- While the benefits of breastfeeding for the baby are well established and some studies have shown that mothers who breastfeed have lower risks of diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease, ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Like mama bears, nursing mothers defend babies with a vengeance
(Medical Xpress) -- Women who breast-feed are far more likely to demonstrate a "mama bear" effect — aggressively protecting their infants and themselves — than women who bottle-feed their babies ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 30, 2011 |
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A mother's salt intake could be key to prenatal kidney development
A new animal study from Europe has drawn an association between pregnant mothers' sodium intake and their newborn's kidney development. Among the most significant aspects of the study's findings is that either too much or ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Device could improve harvest of stem cells from umbilical cord blood
Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta, so that many more patients with leukemia, lymphoma ...
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Hemodynamic responses to the mother's face in infants by near-infrared spectroscopy
A Japanese research group led by Prof. Ryusuke Kakigi and Dr. Emi Nakato (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS) and Prof. Masami K Yamaguchi (Chuo University) found that there was the different hemodynamic ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Umbilical cord blood not suitable for assessing allergy risk
For years, hospitals and researchers have been testing blood samples from the umbilical cords of newborn babies to assess the risk of allergy. Now a study at the University of Copenhagen has revealed that the biomarker in ...
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Blood pressure control abnormal in newborns of smoking mothers
Newborns of women who smoked during pregnancy show signs of circulatory dysfunction in the first few weeks of life that get worse throughout the first year, Swedish researchers reported in Hypertension: Journal of the Am ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Many women add too many pounds during pregnancy
(AP) -- Eating for two? New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy - surprisingly little if they're already overweight or obese when they conceive.
May 28, 2009 |
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Mothers pass on disease clues to offspring
(PhysOrg.com) -- When there is a threat of disease during pregnancy, mothers produce less aggressive sons with more efficient immune systems, researchers at The University of Nottingham have discovered.
Dec 24, 2008 |
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