Health
Pool neck floats are a danger to babies, FDA warns
Neck floats marketed for babies to use in water can lead to serious injury or death, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this week.
Jun 29, 2022
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News tagged with cerebral palsy
Neuroscience
Baby's kick in the womb may be key to treating disease and training robots
Does the nervous system come with instructions for how it should connect to the body or must it figure this out during early development? A new model from researchers at the University of Southern California and Lund University ...
Jun 22, 2022
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Neuroscience
Stem cell therapy offers a new hope to repair brain damage in newborns
A few hours after Tom (not his real name) was born, he became restless and did not want to be breastfed. His mother noticed that his left arm and leg were shaking rhythmically—something was not right.
May 12, 2022
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Biomedical technology
Sensor bracelet designed to give back control to hand-impaired
Australian researchers are developing a 3D printed bracelet to allow people living with hand-impairment to easily use computers and play video games.
May 2, 2022
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Pediatrics
MRI identifies markers of atypical brain development in children born preterm
Premature babies who develop abnormalities like autism and cerebral palsy as teenagers have subtle differences in brain structure that can be detected on quantitative MRI (qMRI), according to a new study in the journal Radiology. ...
Apr 26, 2022
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Surgery
Some children with cerebral palsy scoliosis may not need pelvic fixation, study shows
A new Michigan Medicine study finds that some children with cerebral palsy and scoliosis do not require pelvic fixation when undergoing growing rod treatment, potentially avoiding several complications.
Apr 18, 2022
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Pediatrics
New research shows survival rate improvement for extremely pre-term infants
A new study in JAMA co-authored by a University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) researcher has found that the survival rates of extremely pre-term babies has increased significantly in the past decade.
Apr 1, 2022
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Neuroscience
Lower birth weight is linked to neurodevelopmental problems
UiB research shows that being born to term with a weight lower than 3.5 kilos is related to a higher risk of developing neurodevelopmental problems such as cerebral palsy and autism.
Feb 28, 2022
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Genetics
Cerebral palsy has genetic cause in up to one quarter of patients
Cerebral palsy, or CP, has widely been viewed as the result of perinatal oxygen deprivation or other birth-related factors like prematurity.
Jan 31, 2022
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Genetics
Contrary to the common view, cerebral palsy can be genetic
Cerebral palsy, a non-progressing motor impairment that begins in early childhood, has widely been viewed as the result of oxygen deprivation during birth or other birth-related factors such as prematurity. While this is ...
Jan 25, 2022
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