Delay in Cutting Umbilical Cord May Help Preemies
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NEW YORK  - A slight delay in cutting the umbilical cord of a preterm infant may reduce the need for blood transfusions and prevent brain hemorrhage, according to a new report in.
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Sometimes the numbing effect of TV can be helpful. Especially if you're a kid being stuck with a needle at the hospital.
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Cooling the brains of newborns who have been deprived of oxygen during birth could help cut the risk of brain damage.
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Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may someday be used to treat diabetes, U.S. and British researchers reported on Friday.
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Scientists design a device they say should help doctors work out how best to deliver babies stuck during labour.
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Blood from a baby's umbilical cord could help doctors predict which children will suffer from allergies and asthma later in their lives, British and American scientists said on Thursday.
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Umbilical cord blood, now used mostly to treat children with leukemia, could save thousands of adults with the disease each year who cannot find bone marrow donors.
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For a baby who is born deaf or hearing-impaired, early action by both parents and doctors may be essential to his or her social development.
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Having a nurse visit the home a few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or dehydration
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A blood test to identify the sex of foetuses at seven weeks could cut the need for further risky tests.
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NEW YORK  - Stopping epidural medications  during the last stages of labor does not improve pregnancy  outcomes, but it does markedly increase pain, results of a  review study suggest.
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NEW YORK  - Preliminary results from a study hint that vaginal douching 6 months before pregnancy, but not during pregnancy, may protect African American women from delivering preterm (before 40 weeks).
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Stem cells from umbilical cord blood can save the lives of leukemia patients when compatible bone marrow donors aren&#39;t available, according to two major studies published today.
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EDMONTON - Blood from umbilical cords of newborns can be used in place of bone marrow for some adults with leukemia, doctors say. Bone marrow transplants are used to restore the immune systems of leukemia patients after radiation and chemotherapy.
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Blood from a baby&#39;s umbilical cord could help doctors predict which children will suffer from allergies and asthma later in their lives, British and American scientists said on Thursday.
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MUNICH -- Umbilical cord blood helped children with acute leukemia as well as the bone marrow transplants that doctors now prefer, a study indicates.
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Doctors treat a baby with brittle bone disease while she is still in the womb, using stem cell technology.