Plastic Surgery :: Plastic surgery patient safety advisory on Medi-spas
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons issue patient safety advisory on Medi-spas.
Baby
Parenting :: First test tube baby becomes a mother
Louise Brown, the world’s first test tube baby, has given birth to a child of her own – a boy. 28-year-old Louise, an administrative assistant, and her husband Wesley Mullinder, 37, were delighted at the safe arrival of the baby.
Breastfeeding :: Should HIV-positive mothers breastfeed?
A new study conducted by Renaud Becquet and colleagues in Abidjan, C?te d’Ivoire, and reported in PLoS Medicine shows that if HIV-positive mothers are well supported, either of the two feeding options currently recommended (formula-only feed, or short-term breastfeeding) are likely to be equivalent in terms of the baby’s chances for survival and health.
Amniotic Fluid :: New proteomic method to detect inflammation in amniotic fluid
A score that measures the proteomic profile of amniotic fluid may predict inflammation before delivery. Researchers from Yale University, led by Catalin Buhimschi, have previously identified a set of four protein markers that were closely associated with inflammation in the amniotic fluid, and developed a score based on these proteins “the “Mass Restricted” (MR) score. This score has been shown to be able to identify women at risk of preterm delivery.
Prenatal :: Prenatal cocaine’s lasting cellular effects
A recent study by investigators at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development may help explain the long-term behavioral and neurological problems associated with prenatal exposure to cocaine.
Bachelor :: 30 mn Chinese men likely to remain bachelor
Some 30 million Chinese men may be forced to remain bachelor by 2020 due to growing gender imbalance in the world’s most populous nation, a government report has cautioned. For every 100 baby girls born in 2005, there were 118.58 baby boys, and the gap will continue to widen, a report by the State Population and Family Planning Commission said.
Infant :: China’s first mermaid baby dies
China’s first “mermaid baby” died of heart failure at a hospital in central China’s Hunan Province after doctors failed to save the abandoned boy, till date there has been only two known cases in the world of children who survived the affliction.
Breastfeeding :: Calcium important for nursing mothers’ oral health
Mothers who breastfeed should be sure to have enough calcium in their diet, or may risk bone loss around their teeth and gums, according to a new study that appears in the January issue of the Journal of Periodontology.
Child safety seat :: Most car seats for babies fail crash tests
A child safety seat, “car seat”, or a “child restraint system”, is a restraint which is secured to the seat of an automobile equipped with safety harnesses to hold a child in the event of a crash. Most car seats for babies fail disastrously when subjected to side-impact crash tests, according to a study of seats available in the United States by a consumer magazine.
Metamaterials four to work for visible light
For the first time ever, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have developed a material with a negative refractive index for visible light. Ames Laboratory senior physicist Costas Soukoulis, working with colleagues in Karlsruhe, Germany, designed a silver-based, mesh-like material that marks the latest advance in the rapidly evolving field of metamaterials, materials that could lead to a wide range of new applications as varied as ultrahigh-resolution imaging systems and cloaking devices.