Infant Botulism

What is the FDA?

The US FDA is the Food and Drug Administration . FDA is responsible for:   Protecting the public health by assuring that foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary and properly labeled; human...

Generics Drugs - news, views, reports

A generic drug (generic drugs, short: generics) is a drug defined as "a drug product that is comparable to brand/reference listed drug product in dosage form, strength, route of administration,...

Vitamin K

Vitamin K is a group of 2-methilo-naphthoquinone derivatives. There are three notable forms of vitamin K; K1 which can be synthesized by plants, K2 which can be formed by natural bacteria in the int...

PolyXen

PolyXen® is an enabling technology for protein drug delivery.  It uses the natural polymer polysialic acid (PSA) to prolong the active life and improve the stability of therapeutic peptides...

Infant Mortality Drops 12% In Six Years, USA

After a 5-year plateau, the infant mortality rate in the USA dropped 12% from 2005 to the end of 2011, says a new "NCHS Data Brief" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Redu...

Infant Mortality Rates Decline, USA

After a 5-year plateau, the infant mortality rate in the USA dropped 12% from 2005 to the end of 2011, says a new "NCHS Data Brief" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Redu...

Tummy time exercises important for infant's physical and mental development

Thanks to the American Academy of Pediatrics, most parents know the safest way for an infant to sleep is on their back. The campaign has reduced the number of children who have died from Sudden Infant...

Health Tip: Bonding With Your Infant

-- Developing an intimate relationship with your newborn appears key to your baby's social and mental development, the Nemours Foundation says. Bonding provides the infant with initial exposure to int...

Solid Dosage Testing Equipment

Brochure highlights new additions to the company’s range of solids dosage testing equipment.Read more about Solid Dosage Testing EquipmentComments

Capsugel opens dosage form solutions business unit

Capsugel, a provider of dosage forms and solutions for the healthcare industry, has opened a new dosage form solutions (DFS) business unit.

Sex differences in infant care trump gender-neutral ideology

Among college professors who take paid post-birth leave and who believe infant care duties should be shared equally by both sexes, the women almost always do more than half of the infant care, and rep...

Encapsulating Service

Capsules are an important solid dosage form, especially during the early stages of pharmaceutical development. The prevalence of solid dosage in the pharmaceutical industry is clear — it remains the...

Minor structural abnormalities in the infant face disrupt neural processing: A unique window into early caregiving responses.

Infant faces elicit early, specific activity in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a key cortical region for reward and affective processing. A test of the causal relationship between infant facial confi...

Mothers' frontal EEG asymmetry in response to infant emotion states and mother-infant emotional availability, emotional experience, and internalizing symptoms.

This study examined the links between mothers' frontal EEG asymmetry at rest and during videos of their 5- to 8-month-old infants expressing three emotion states (joy, anger/distress, and neutral inte...

Attentional processing of infant emotion during late pregnancy and mother-infant relations after birth.

The mother-infant relationship has an important influence on maternal mental health and infant development. Evidence suggests that this relationship is enhanced by a mother's sensitive response toward...

Fetal and maternal factors associated with infant mortality in vervet monkeys.

Abstract Background Causes of infant death remain unknown in significant proportions of human and non-human primate pregnancies. Methods A closed breeding colony with high rates of infant mortality ha...

Race and ethnic disparities in fetal mortality, preterm birth, and infant mortality in the United States: an overview.

Infant mortality, fetal mortality, and preterm birth all represent important health challenges that have shown little recent improvement. The rate of decrease in both fetal and infant mortality has sl...