News tagged with newborn infants
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.
Premature newborns lack 'death NET' to fight sepsis
Mar 20, 2009 |
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When locked in mortal combat with infection, some mature white blood cells have a formidable weapon: they literally cast a DNA net—called a neutrophil extracellular trap (NET)—that captures and kills bacteria that invade ...
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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure Impairs Infants' Response to Stress
Jan 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Infants exposed prenatally to cocaine react more emotionally to stress and appear to have fewer stress-reducing coping strategies than infants with no cocaine exposure, researchers at the University at Buffalo's ...
Data show a decline in cystic fibrosis since introduction of prenatal carrier screening
Feb 28, 2008 |
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A brief report in the February 28, 2008, New England Journal of Medicine, led by researchers at the New England Newborn Screening Program (NENSP) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), indicates a decl ...
Safely transporting a preterm or low birth weight infant
Apr 27, 2009 |
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New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics should eliminate one of the many stresses of bringing a preterm or low birth weight infant home from the hospital.
Newborn infants detect the beat in music
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect ...
New groundbreaking treatment for oxygen-deprived newborns
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Until now immediate cooling of the newborn infant was the only treatment that could possibly prevent brain damage following oxygen deprivation during delivery. New research findings from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University ...
Extended infant antiretroviral prophylaxis reduces HIV risk during breastfeeding
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 05, 2008 |
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In many resource-poor countries, infants born to mothers with HIV receive a single dose of nevirapine (NVP) and a one-week dose of zidovudine (ZDV) to prevent transmission of HIV from the mother to her newborn. The results ...
Mother's flu shot protects newborns
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Newborns can be protected from seasonal flu when their mothers are vaccinated during pregnancy, according to a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers observed a 63 ...
States expand newborn screening for life-threatening disorders
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Regardless of where they are born in the United States, nearly all newborns now receive mandated screening for many life-threatening disorders, a remarkable public health advance of the last four years, according to a new ...
Premature births linked to physical abuse
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Premature birth can have serious effects on the development and growth of children. In many parts of the world, preterm deliveries are increasing in frequency. In a study published in the February 2008 issue of the American Jo ...
Simple test accurately predicts risk of serious jaundice in newborns
Jan 10, 2008 |
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A simple test can accurately identify which newborn babies are at risk for developing dangerous levels of jaundice, according to researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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