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Benefits of Hypothermia for Infants Continue Through Early Childhood, Study Suggests
May 30, 2012 — A treatment to reduce the body temperatures of infants who experience oxygen deficiency at birth has benefits into early childhood, according to a follow-up ... > full story -
Window of Opportunity to Prevent Cerebral Palsy Discovered: Nanodrugs Work in Newborn Rabbits
April 18, 2012 — Researchers have demonstrated that a nanotechnology-based drug treatment in newborn rabbits with cerebral palsy enabled dramatic improvement of movement disorders and the inflammatory process of the ... > full storyMore: -
Magnesium Lowers Blood Pressure, Study Suggests
March 13, 2012 — Researchers have found that magnesium supplements may offer small but clinically significant reductions in blood pressure. The researchers also discovered that the size of the effect increased ... > full story -
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Genetic Abnormalities May Cause Cerebral Palsy, Study Suggests
January 26, 2012 — For years it was thought that a difficult birth and other perinatal factors were the leading causes of cerebral palsy (CP), a group of disorders that can involve brain and nervous system functions ... > full story -
Foot and Ankle Structure Differs Between Sprinters and Non-Sprinters
January 24, 2012 — The skeletal structure of the foot and ankle differs significantly between human sprinters and non-sprinters, according to researchers. Their findings not only help explain why some people are faster ... > full story -
New Tool Enhances View of Muscles
January 23, 2012 — New research is adding to the arsenal of increasingly sophisticated medical imaging tools with a new signal-processing method for viewing muscle activation details never seen before. A novel method ... > full story -
Pregnant Women Advised to Stay Cool for Baby's Sake: Australian Study
December 15, 2011 — Medical researchers have found a link between increases in temperature and the incidence of stillbirth and shorter ... > full story -
Cerebral Palsy-Like Brain Damage Prevented in Mice
November 2, 2011 — Scientists have shown that a protein may help prevent the kind of brain damage that occurs in babies with cerebral ... > full story -
Enzyme Controlling Cell Death Paves Way for Treatment of Brain Damage in Newborns
October 25, 2011 — Brain damage due to birth asphyxia – where the brain is starved of oxygen around the time of delivery – is normally treated by cooling the infant, but this only helps one baby in nine. ... > full story -
Preterm Infants Exposed to Stressors in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Display Reduced Brain Size, Study Finds
October 4, 2011 — New research shows that exposure to stressors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is associated with alterations in the brain structure and function of very preterm infants. According to the ... > full story
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