Medically treating post-partum depression may not be enough to improve a mother?s relationship with her baby, and is only part of the equation, according to a new study done in part by the University of Alberta.
An analysis of state Emergency Medicaid spending contradicts assumptions about emergency care provided to recent immigrants, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence have found.
The risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the third leading cause of infant death, may be lowered through the use of a pacifier. According to an article in Nursing for Women?s Health, neonatal health care practitioners should counsel new parents on the potential benefits of using a pacifier.
Scientists have highlighted for the first time the plight of the growing number of older children and adolescents living with undiagnosed HIV and AIDS in Africa.
Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have found that older mothers with normal, full-term pregnancies ? particularly first-time older mothers ? were more likely to undergo Caesarean delivery than were younger women with similarly low-risk pregnancies.
More than half of American women (60%) say they only get a good night?s sleep a few nights per week or less and 67% say they frequently experience a sleep problem. Additionally, 43% say that daytime sleepiness interferes with their daily activities, according to a new poll released today by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF).
Inadequate intellectual stimulation and poor nutrition, especially iodine and iron deficiencies, are likely to blame for hindering more than 200 million children in developing countries from meeting their full potential, says a Purdue University researcher.
Diesel fumes pose a major health risk to commuters, according to a new report by the non-profit Clean Air Task Force.
Giving choline to infants who were exposed in the womb to alcohol may mitigate some of the resulting problems. Prenatal alcohol exposure affects physical and central nervous system development, putting children at risk for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders that at their worst include full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome.
An independent United Nations rights expert denounced a campaign by Filipino milk companies to promote breast-milk substitutes for manipulating UN data to protect their huge profits regardless of the interest of a country where 16,000 children under 5 died in 2003 from improper feeding practices including infant formula.