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Number of newborn deaths increases in Ankara hospital
Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey -
As the number of premature births increases, the number of deaths similarly shows a rise. The deaths aren't related with infections,? said ?mit Bilge, ...
Baby Boomers may be aided by tool as they begin to file for Social ...
Newsday, NY - Aug 4, 2008
And it doesn't calculate lesser-known strategies such as repaying early benefits to qualify for higher benefits going forward. ...
Some can get both Social Security, SSI
Akron Beacon Journal, OH - Aug 3, 2008
Q: My sister-in-law just had a baby who was born six weeks premature and only weighs about 4 pounds. I was told that premature infants can get Supplemental ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: Twins have brought 'wonderful chaos ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Aug 4, 2008
"I knew that like all twins they would be premature, so when I saw they were big and screaming with healthy lungs, I was at peace," said Jolie. ...

Stuff.co.nz
Why breast is best
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand - Aug 3, 2008
FEEDING TIME: Even the tiniest premature babies should get breast milk if possible because it boosts immunity against infections that can overwhelm their ...
Parents of twins and triplets share how they get through those ...
Dallas Morning News, TX -
She's also thankful for advice from the nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit where two of the babies, born 91/2 weeks premature on Dec. ...
On Cholesterol Related Premature Death of South Asian Immigrants ...
Global Politician, NY - Aug 3, 2008
The scientific facts have not yet drawn their attention even coming to America that premature sudden death, especially in the goodnight sleep after a grand ...

ABC Online
Catching the early babies
ABC Online, Australia - Jul 23, 2008
Around one per cent of births in Australia are classed as 'extremely premature' ? that is, between 23 and 25 weeks. Babies born in this early period, ...
Being born premature can lead to chronic lung problems such as ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Jul 28, 2008
The authors of the study say that improvements in the care of premature babies over the past three decades has increased the rate of those who survive a ...

TopNews
Premature Infants May Face Higher Hurdle as Adults, Study Finds
Bloomberg - Jul 16, 2008
``It shows that premature children need a good health-care and educational system, early stimulation and help into adulthood.'' The study divided the group ...
Premature babies grow up shy USA Today
Preemies' Problems May Last a Lifetime Newsweek
Premature Birth Affects Long Term Ontario Now
TheMedGuru - MedPage Today
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Early intervention in low-birth-weight premature infants. Results through age 5 years from the … -
J Brooks-Gunn, CM McCarton, PH Casey, MC McCormick … - JAMA, 1994 - Am Med Assoc
... FULL TEXT. Early Intervention in Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: Results at
18 Years of Age for the Infant Health and Development Program McCormick et al. ...

… at age 8 years of early intervention for low-birth-weight premature infants. The Infant Health and … -
CM McCarton, J Brooks-Gunn, IF Wallace, CR Bauer, … - JAMA, 1997 - Am Med Assoc
... Results at age 8 years of early intervention for low-birth-weight premature
infants. The Infant Health and Development Program. CM ...

Early postnatal dexamethasone therapy in premature infants with severe respiratory distress syndrome …
TF Yeh, JA Torre, A Rastogi, MA Anyebuno, RS … - J Pediatr, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Early postnatal dexamethasone therapy in premature infants with severe respiratory
distress syndrome: a double-blind, controlled study. ...

Early minimal feedings promote growth in critically ill premature infants. -
B Troche, K Harvey-Wilkes, WD Engle, HC Nielsen, … - Biol Neonate, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Biol Neonate. 1995;67(3):172-81. Early minimal feedings promote growth in
critically ill premature infants. Troche B, Harvey-Wilkes ...

Early onset of airway reactivity in premature infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia. -
EK Motoyama, MD Fort, KW Klesh, RL Mutich, RD … - Am Rev Respir Dis, 1987 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... it is not known how early airway reactivity ... The remaining 2 infants were already
receiving ... The most premature infant with demonstrable airway reactivity was 26 ...

Prophylaxis Against Early Adrenal Insufficiency to Prevent Chronic Lung Disease in Premature Infants -
KL Watterberg, JS Gerdes, KL Gifford, HM Lin - Pediatrics, 1999 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... the very low birth weight infant: improved testing ... illness on plasma cortisol
concentrations in premature infants. ... adrenal insufficiency in babies who develop ...

… , as precursors of somatization: a prospective study of extremely premature and fullterm children. -
RV Grunau, MF Whitfield, JH Petrie, EL Fryer - Pain, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Early pain experience, child and family factors, as ... a prospective study of extremely
premature and fullterm ... birthweight (ELBW: < 1000 g) preterm infants and 36 ...

Early ibuprofen administration to prevent patent ductus arteriosus in premature newborn infants -
A Varvarigou, CL Bardin, K Beharry, S Chemtob, A … - JAMA, 1996 - Am Med Assoc
... Babies given three doses of ibuprofen tended to ... of Intraventricular Hemorrhage Among
Preterm Infants: A Multicenter ... and brain in the preterm infant Osborn et al ...

Early treatment of premature infants with recombinant human erythropoietin -
J Messer, J Haddad, L Donato, D Astruc, J Matis - Pediatrics, 1993 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... Early treatment of premature infants with recombinant ... dependent relationship in treated
infants was displayed ... therapy is safe in premature babies when given in ...

… glucocorticoid treatment for prevention of the respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants -
GC Liggins, RN Howie - Pediatrics, 1972 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... ba- bies compared with 69.6% of the control babies p. 0.02). ... All infants 19 100.0
13 100.0 ... TABLE IV INFANT SURVIVAL IN UNPLANNED PRE- MATURE LABOR (ALL INFANTS ...

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Moderately premature infants often ill early on

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants born prematurely at 30 to 34 weeks' gestation experience significant morbidity in the early months of life, researchers report

"Near-term babies are at high risk for adverse outcomes," Dr. Gabriel J. Escobar from Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, Oakland, California told Reuters Health.

Escobar and colleagues evaluated birth outcomes and 3-month follow-up of 850 30- to 34-week infants who survived the birth stay in the hospital -- a group they dub "unstudied infants," since much of the recent neonatal literature has focused on more premature infants.

They report in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition that almost half the babies required some form of assisted ventilation to help them breathe and about a quarter of the infants received surfactant, substance that helps the lungs expand.

Among the 30-32 week infants, the results indicate, 4.9 percent developed sepsis or meningitis, 1.2 percent developed inflammation of the intestines, a condition known as necrotizing enterocolitis, and 0.6 percent developed bleeding in the brain.

These rates are all substantially higher than those reported for term infants, the investigators explain.

Just over 11 percent of the infants required readmission to the hospital within 3 months of being discharged, the researchers note. This compares with a readmission rate of only 4.3 percent for term infants in the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in 2002.

Escobar recommends "greater attention to initial management in the neonatal period; in particular, these babies should not be a) treated on the basis of their birth weight; b) rushed out of the hospital; and c) evaluated unaggressively when they show temperature instability, poor feeding, or respiratory distress."

"We need more research on these babies to decide what works and what does not," Escobar concluded. "Working with a team of investigators from the March of Dimes, we are going to look at Kaiser Permanente data to ascertain developmental outcomes among near-term infants."

SOURCE: Archives of Disease in Childhood, Fetal and Neonatal Edition,.

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Rapid flu test curbs diagnostic testing in the ER

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A point-of-care rapid influenza test used during the flu season in the pediatric emergency department of a children's hospital was sensitive and specific for influenza infection, and led to less diagnostic testing, a Tennessee-based team of doctors found.

"Influenza is one of the common causes of illness during the winter," lead researcher Dr. Katherine A. Poehling pointed out in remarks to Reuters Health. "We found that rapid influenza tests were associated with fewer tests being ordered in the emergency department."

To investigate the impact of such testing, Poehling and colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, conducted a study during the influenza seasons between 2002 and 2004. Surveillance days were randomly allocated to use or non-use of the test. Rapid results were compared with results of standard culture or another method of detecting viruses called PCR.

In total, 306 children with fever or acute respiratory symptoms attending the emergency department and 162 attending the hospital acute care clinic were enrolled. All were younger than 5 years of age.Overall, 88 children (19 percent) had influenza. In the rapid testing group, 51 (25 percent) had influenza. The test had a sensitivity of detecting influenza of 82 percent and a specificity for influenza of 99 percent.

The rapid test led to fewer emergency department children having diagnostic tests (39 percent versus 51 percent). However there was no difference in those attending the acute care clinic. There was no difference in antibiotic prescribing in either setting.

In a report in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, the researchers call for further studies, but note the value of a reduction in unnecessary diagnostic testing during the influenza seasons when such facilities are often overcrowded. However, added Poehling, "because prevention is better than being diagnosed with influenza, parents -- particularly those with children 6 months up to 5 years of age and those with medical conditions such as asthma -- should talk to their doctors about the influenza vaccine."

SOURCE: Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine,

Most US adults not engaging in strength training

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only 20 percent of adults engage in recommended strength training exercises, a figure that is substantially lower than the 2010 national health objective of 30 percent, according to findings released Thursday.

The American College of Sports Medicine and other groups recommend that adults engage in physical activities to improve and maintain muscular strength and endurance at least twice a week.

In the present study, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for 1998 to 2004 to determine trends in strength training among US adults. The NHIS, which involves face-to-face interviews about health issues, featured annual sample sizes of around 32,000 and response rates of about 72 percent.

From 1998 to 2004, the overall proportion of adults engaging in recommended levels of strength training increased slightly, but significantly from 17.7 percent to 19.6 percent. This trend was largely due to a significant increase in training among women; the rate among men did not change much.Despite the improvement seen in women, the proportion meeting recommended levels of training in 2004 lagged behind men: 17.5 percent vs. 21.0 percent.

In 2004, adults 65 years of age and older were the group least likely to engage in recommended strength training. However, this was the only group that showed a significant increase in training prevalence for both genders from 1998 to 2004.

In 2004, the prevalence of strength training was lowest among Hispanics -- 15.0 percent for men and 9.1 percent for women. Among women, non-Hispanic whites had a significantly higher rate of strength training than other groups, whereas for men, the rates were roughly the same with exception of the low rate noted in Hispanics. "Additional opportunities for adults to engage in strength training (e.g. in places where adults already pursue leisure-time activity, such as schools and community centers) could increase the prevalence of strength training," the researchers note. "The findings in this report also underscore the need to increase education on the benefits of strength training among targeted adult populations."

SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,

 
 
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