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Tourette syndrome misconceptions only one battle for patients
Apr 15, 2009 |
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The most disabling aspect of Tourette syndrome is that in 90% of cases, it exists in conjunction with another disorder. The most frequent co-occurring condition in people with Tourette is attention deficit ...
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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 ...
Resuscitated newborns at risk for lower IQs
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Children who were resuscitated at birth have increased risk of low intelligence quotient (IQ) at age eight years, even if they were apparently healthy in the 28 days (neonatal period) following ...
Health varies widely across different regions of Mexico
Jun 17, 2008 |
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A new study of the burden of disease and injury across Mexico has found that the south suffers the highest rates of infectious and nutritional diseases, injuries, and non-communicable diseases. The study, by researchers at ...
Black women have double the risk of pregnancy complications
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black Caribbean and black African women in the UK have twice as much risk of experiencing severe pregnancy complications than white women, according to University of Oxford research.
Autism may be linked to being firstborn, breech births or moms 35 or older
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Children who are firstborn or breech or whose mothers are 35 or older when giving birth are at significantly greater risk for developing an autism spectrum disorder, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers have ...
Anxious pregnant mothers more likely to have smaller babies
Oct 27, 2009 |
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A new study published in the journal Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology reveals that anxiety in pregnant women impacts their babies' size and gestational age. Specifically, women with more severe and chronic anxiety during ...
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 ...
Analysis of millions of US births shows association between birth defects and preterm birth
May 21, 2008 |
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Babies born preterm were more than twice as likely to have major birth defects as full-term infants, according to a new analysis of nearly 7 million U.S. live births published online this week in the Springer journal Maternal an ...
Study: Caesarean babies more likely to die
Sep 07, 2006 |
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A U.S. study finds babies born by Caesarean section are nearly three times more likely to die during the first month of life than those born naturally.
Time of conception linked to birth defects in United States
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A study published in the April 2009 issue of the medical journal Acta Pædiatrica is the first to report that birth defect rates in the United States were highest for women conceiving in the spring and summer. The researchers also f ...
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