1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (251+ words) News-Medical Immediate kangaroo mother care boosts survival for premature infants Preterm birth and low birth weight remain major contributors to neonatal death and long-term developmental challenges. Kangaroo mother care, first introduced as an alternative to insufficient incubator care, combines skin-to-skin…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (193+ words) The World Health Organization defines restrained sitting as time when a child is strapped into a seat or device and recommends that children aged 3-4 years not be restrained for more than 60 minutes at a time. Findings showed that while most…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (352+ words) Chronic oral inflammation may impair female fertility by triggering a systemic immune response that affects the ovaries. A new study shows this leads to oxidative damage, reduced egg quality, disrupted follicle development and reduced live birth rate. These findings point…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (260+ words) A new study from'Wake Forest University School of Medicine'suggests'a'routine heart test" an electrocardiogram (ECG)" may'offer researchers a new way to measure biological development in children and adolescents.' The findings were published in a study in'European Heart Journal'- Digital Health.' In…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago  (394+ words) Metabolic health before and during pregnancy may have a bigger influence on risks for mother and baby than simply controlling weight gain. Data from a recent paper by Pennington Biomedical researchers. .. Metabolic health plays larger role than weight gain in…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (409+ words) Both too little and too much weight gain during pregnancy are associated with serious maternal and child health outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight, death, preeclampsia, and unplanned cesarean delivery. Early pregnancy interventions improve healthy gestational weight gain outcomes…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (800+ words) JMIR Publications today released a report on developments in the evidence gap in drug safety during pregnancy in its News and Perspectives section. Machine learning can help close pregnancy drug safety gaps JMIR Publications today released a report on developments…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (573+ words) Research from the University of Colorado Anschutz suggests that stress experienced by a father before conception may influence an offspring's growth by altering small molecular signals in sperm. The study, published today in i Science, focuses on a tiny stress…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (573+ words) Regular guava juice consumption may prove a readily accessible and affordable addition to helping lower the risk of anemia in women in low and middle income countries, suggests a synthesis of the available evidence, published in the open access journal'BMJ…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1003+ words) "There's nothing similar to our device on the market or in the scientific literature," said senior study author Sheng Xu, Ph D, professor of anesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford Medicine. Xu was previously a professor at UC San…...