News tagged with infant health


New recommendations in bedsharing debate

Researchers from Murdoch University's School of Health Professions are urging health organisations to reconsider their attitudes to mothers and babies bedsharing.

Health created Apr 29, 2013 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 0

Declining rates of US infant male circumcision could add billions to health care costs

A team of disease experts and health economists at Johns Hopkins warns that steadily declining rates of U.S. infant male circumcision could add more than $4.4 billion in avoidable health care costs if rates over the next ...

Health created Aug 20, 2012 | popularity 1.2 / 5 (17) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Why are asthma rates higher among children now than in the past?

(Medical Xpress)—Doug Brugge, a professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts, assesses the possible reasons.

Inflammatory disorders created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Eat fish, build up brainpower

Can pregnant women help boost their children's brainpower by eating fish? The findings of a study, presented in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show how children born to women who consumed more f ...

Health created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Public health insurance offers insured infants better, less costly care than private plans

In the fierce national debate over a new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance, it's widely assumed that private health insurance can do a better job than the public insurance funded by the U.S. ...

Health created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Oklahoma baby is 3rd sickened by rare bacteria

(AP) -- An Oklahoma baby is the third infant this month sickened by bacteria sometimes associated with tainted infant formula.

Health created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Americans less healthy than others

Americans are in worse health, die earlier and suffer from more disease than residents of other wealthy nations, according to a new study out Wednesday.

Health created Jan 09, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rice as a source of arsenic exposure

A study just published by a Dartmouth team of scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) advances our understanding of the sources of human exposure to arsenic and focuses atten ...

Health created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Household smoke increases severity of bronchiolitis in babies

A study by the University of Liverpool has found that babies admitted to hospital with bronchiolitis from a household where a parent smokes are twice as likely to need oxygen therapy and five times as likely to need mechanical ...

Health created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Parents who lose a baby can die of a broken heart

Parents who lose a new baby run a high risk themselves of dying prematurely, according to a British study published on Thursday.

Health created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Preterm infants exposed to stressors in NICU display reduced brain size

New research shows that exposure to stressors in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is associated with alterations in the brain structure and function of very preterm infants. According to the study now available in ...

Neuroscience created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Despite belief WIC improves infant health, new study finds no positive or negative impact

Existing scientific literature suggests the U.S. government nutritional program known as WIC improves birth outcomes of children, but new research is unable to find either a positive or negative impact on infant health.

Health created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers examine the importance of a mother's soothing touch

Mothers who stroke their newborn infants in the first few weeks of their life could change the effects that stress during gestation has on early-life development, new research from the United Kingdom shows. ...

Health created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Women 16-49 at risk of multiple pollutants

(Medical Xpress)—In a new analysis of thousands of US women of childbearing age, Brown University researchers found that most exceeded the median blood level for two or more of three environmental pollutants ...

Health created Nov 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Privacy a problem for mothers of newborns in neonatal intensive care units, study finds

Many mothers of newborns in neonatal intensive care units have difficulty finding private, quiet places in the hospital to express milk, according to a new study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western ...

Health created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0