Vitamin E Deficiency

Frank vitamin E deficiency is rare and overt deficiency symptoms have not been found in healthy people who obtain little vitamin E from their diets. Premature babies of very low birth weight (<1,...

Respiratory syncytial virus RSV Vaccines

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, which manifests primarily as bronchiolitis and/or viral pneumonia, is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children....

Lymphoma

Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph nodes; classified as Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Malignancy varies, and the prognosis can be from a few months to many years. Symptoms include enlarged lymph...

Hepatitis - news, views, blogs and news

Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The condition can b...

Acute Myelocytic Leukemia AML

Acute myelocytic leukemia is a life-threatening disease in which the neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil, and monocyte precursors become cancerous and rapidly replace normal cells in the bone marrow....

When babies eat fish could be link to asthma

By Andrew SeamanReuters.comBabies who first ate fish between the ages of six months and one year had a lower risk of developing asthma-like symptoms later on than babies who ate fish before six mont...

Johnson & Johnson loses $63 million verdict in Motrin case

Feb 13 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts jury on Wednesday said Johnson & Johnson must pay a teenage girl and her family $63 million, finding she lost much of her skin and suffered other serious harm after...

When babies eat fish could be key in link to asthma: study

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Babies who first ate fish between the ages of six months and one year had a lower risk of developing asthma-like symptoms later on than babies who ate fish before six months or afte...

'Bilingual Babies' Can Tell Languages Apart

THURSDAY, Feb. 14 -- Babies as young as 7 months can tell one language from another and begin to learn them even if they have very different rules of grammar, a new study suggests. The authors discove...

Babies Are Conscious of Faces at Just Five Months of Age

Most new parents are primed to watch for their baby’s first glimmer of a smile or the first sign he is tracking that toy spinning above him. Now researchers have used neural markers to establish tha...

The right amount of vitamin D for babies: 400 IU daily dose for suggested for infants under one year of age

Vitamin D is crucial to the growth of healthy bones. It is especially important that babies get enough of it during the first twelve months of their lives when their bones are growing rapidly. This is...

Babies of Heavy Moms Grow Slower: Study

FRIDAY, Aug. 10 -- Babies with overweight or obese mothers appear to gain less weight and grow more slowly during the first three months of life than babies born to normal-weight women, according to a...

Babies show visual consciousness at five months

(Medical Xpress)—A new study by scientists in France and Denmark has identified a neurological marker in the brain of babies as young as five months that is associated with visual consciousness, or...

Newborn screening for congenital hypothyroidism in very-low-birth-weight babies: the need for a second test.

BACKGROUND: Very-low-birth-weight babies (VLBW) with hypothyroidism may show a delayed postnatal rise in thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), mainly due to immaturity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyro...

Effect of nutrition education on exclusive breastfeeding for nutritional outcome of low birth weight babies.

Background/Objectives:Low birth weight (LBW), defined as the body weight at birth of less than 2500 g, is a major public health problem in Bangladesh, where 37% of the babies are born with LBW. The...

Neonatal respiratory consequences from water birth.

Aim:  Differentiating features were sought for respiratory distress after water birth versus air birth in term low-risk babies. Clinical and X-ray features were to be assessed to determine if the di...

Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Outcome of Very Low Birth Weight Babies at Corrected Age of 2 Years.

OBJECTIVE: Neurodevelopmental and behavioral assessment of very low birth weight babies (VLBW) at corrected age (CA) of 2 years. METHODS: 127, 110, 99 and 101 babies

Auxological and metabolic study in small for gestational age children during 2 years follow-up.

Objective. To compare auxological and metabolic status of preterm (PT) and fullterm (FT) small for gestational age (SGA) babies from birth until age 2 years and to study the role of intrauterine growt...