Newborn infants who are cup-fed as at least part of their feeding regime, are more likely to be exclusively breast-fed when they leave hospital, but are no more likely to be breast-fed three or six months later, a team of Cochrane researchers have found. Moreover, cup-fed babies stay an average of 10 days longer in hospital.
Women who have unprotected sexual intercourse or experience contraceptive failure can seek emergency contraception to reduce their chance of unintended pregnancy. Emergency contraception is a safe medication, and to be effective, must be taken within five days of unprotected intercourse.
They take drugs. They are sexually active. They are involved in violence. They are girls who are associated with gangs, and the perception from schools, state agencies and even families is that they are beyond help.
CNRS scientists in France, in collaboration with Canadian scientists, have identified the key structure for the memory formation of social information.
Potential drug interactions from prescribed medications are common among cancer patients and may cause unnecessary harm, according to a study in the April 18 Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The Indian Railways has initiated several steps, including the introduction of a “road mobile medical van”, to provide speedy and quality healthcare to about two million serving and retired employees.
Research has shown there is a connection between reproductive factors?such as age at first birth, number of births, and breastfeeding?and a woman?s risk of breast cancer.
A consortium of Canadian and American researchers report in Nature Genetics the results from a search of the entire human genome for genetic risk factors leading to the development of Crohn’s disease.
A phase III trial of 1,298 colorectal cancer patients has found that a combination of the drugs cetuximab (Erbitux) and irinotecan showed a significant improvement in progression-free survival over just irinotecan alone, according to an international team of researchers.
A team of 19 researchers from Australia, Canada, Iceland, Singapore, and several European countries has completed what they call the “largest population-based study of absolute and relative risk of second malignant neoplasms (SMNs)” in childhood leukemia and lymphoma survivors.