http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stressful-life-events-stillbirth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:51:52 EST news283603872 By the time they reached toddlerhood, very preterm infants originally treated with higher oxygen levels continued to show benefits when compared to a group treated with lower oxygen levels, according to a follow-up study by a research network of the National Institutes of Health that confirms earlier network findings. Moreover, infants treated with a respiratory therapy commonly prescribed for adults with obstructive sleep apnea fared as well as those who received the traditional therapy for infant respiratory difficulties, the new study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-benefits-higher-oxygen-device-persist.html Health Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:06:39 EST news275835991 Mice with a condition that serves as a laboratory model for Down syndrome perform better on memory and learning tasks as adults if they were treated before birth with neuroprotective peptides, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-prenatal-intervention-deficit-mice.html Medical research Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:09:51 EST news273488980 A combination of anti-HIV drugs has been found to also reduce the risk of recurrent malaria by nearly half among HIV-positive children, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hiv-treatment-malaria-recurrence-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:00:10 EST news273344123 Couples with high levels of PCBs and similar environmental pollutants take longer to achieve pregnancy in comparison to other couples with lower levels of the pollutants, according to a preliminary study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-pcbs-pollutants-role-pregnancy.html Health Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:03 EST news272047320 Oral medication for treating a type of incontinence in women is roughly as effective as Botox injections to the bladder, reported researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health clinical trials network study, with each form of treatment having benefits and limitations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-benefits-drawbacks-women-incontinence-treatments.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:30:43 EST news268565426 One of the basic elements of cognition―the ability to estimate quantities―grows more precise across the first 30 years or more of a person's life, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-ability-quantity-years-life.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:26:52 EST news260011599 Children exposed to HIV in the womb may be more likely to experience hearing loss by age 16 than are their unexposed peers, according to scientists in a National Institutes of Health research network. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-children-exposed-hiv-womb-loss.html Pediatrics Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:42:35 EST news259425745 Young men being treated for HIV are more likely to experience low bone mass than are other men their age, according to results from a research network supported by the National Institutes of Health. The findings indicate that physicians who care for these patients should monitor them regularly for signs of bone thinning, which could foretell a risk for fractures. The young men in the study did not have HIV at birth and had been diagnosed with HIV an average of two years earlier. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-hiv-positive-young-men-bone-mass.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:07:23 EST news259337226 A treatment to reduce the body temperatures of infants who experience oxygen deficiency at birth has benefits into early childhood, according to a follow-up study by a National Institutes of Health research network. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-benefits-hypothermia-infants-early-childhood.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 30 May 2012 17:00:01 EST news257609413 Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of shorter length than infants born to women who used anti-HIV drug regimens that do not include tenofovir during pregnancy, according to findings from a National Institutes of Health network study. However, at 1 year of age, children born to the tenofovir-treated mothers were slightly shorter and had slightly smaller head circumference—about 1 centimeter each, on average—than were infants whose mothers did not take tenofovir. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-anti-hiv-drug-pregnancy-affect-infant.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 02 May 2012 03:40:01 EST news255146465 NIH-funded scientists have developed a strain of mice with a built-in off switch that can selectively shut down the animals' serotonin-producing cells, which make up a brain network controlling breathing, temperature regulation, and mood. The switch controls only the serotonin-producing cells, and does not affect any other cells in the animal's brains or bodies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-mouse-key-brain-cell-population.html Medical research Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:00:08 EST news231077621