Between December 2024 and February 2025, 10 newborns with hypoxic-ischemic brain injury were treated with breast milk administered through the nasal passages using a special method at Semmelweis University in Budapest. A ...
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A Japanese research team has demonstrated in rat experiments that stem cells from human primary tooth pulp may help treat chronic-phase cerebral palsy. "This is the first animal study to show that stem cell treatment works ...
Mar 4, 2026
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Global health research has long shown the devastating consequences that maternal deaths have on families and communities in developing countries where maternal mortality rates are high. But this insight is rare in the United ...
Sep 26, 2025
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Each year, some babies experience a lack of oxygen before or during birth, which can lead to brain injury—a medical condition known as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). To date, therapeutic hypothermia remains the only ...
Jun 17, 2025
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Erythropoietin, a treatment for newborns with critically low levels of oxygen or blood supply to the brain at birth, does not prevent death or disability, according to a new multinational study. The research was presented ...
Apr 25, 2025
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Lowering the body temperature of preterm infants (born at 33 to 35 weeks of pregnancy) with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE)—a type of brain damage caused by oxygen loss—offers no benefits over standard care, according ...
Feb 26, 2025
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Brain injuries are a leading cause of death and long-term disability in infants. Among the most common is neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), which affects one to three in 1,000 live births per year and accounts ...
Jan 31, 2025
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Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is one of the leading causes of newborn mortality and morbidity worldwide, and lowering the baby's body temperature—called therapeutic hypothermia—is often used as a treatment.
Nov 20, 2024
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An injectable emulsion containing two omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil markedly reduced brain damage in newborn rodents after a disruption in the flow of oxygen to the brain near birth, a study by researchers at Columbia ...
Jun 6, 2024
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Researchers from Imperial College London have shown that a blood test can pinpoint the underlying cause of brain injury in newborns.
Feb 2, 2024
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