Category: Newborn and Infant Health
U.S. has a higher rate of babies born too early than more than 125 other countries, including Rwanda, Uzbekistan, China and Latvia, according a new report produced by 50 organizations, including the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), an initiative of Seattle Children’s.
State is on pace to reach more than 3,000 cases for the year; levels that haven’t been seen in more than six decades.
Pediatrician Dr. Melissa Hathaway has joined The Polyclinic Pediatrics at The Polyclinic Madison Center. She has a special interest in preventative care through health promotion, disease prevention, and safety advocacy.
Since the beginning of the year, 640 cases of whooping cough have been reported in Washington State. Last year by this time, only 94 cases had been reported.
Federal health officials are warning consumers not to use skin creams, beauty and antiseptic soaps, or lotions that might contain mercury after products with the toxic metal turned up in at least seven states.
Flu season has started late this year, but a increase in cases indicates the bug has finally arrived. It’s not too late to vaccinate, health officials say.
The Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbrith (GAPPS) repository will store specimens from pregnant women that researchers from around the world can use to study both normal and abnormal pregnancies.
Mothers-to-be can reduce the risk their children will be be harmed by environmental toxins by takings simple steps to avoid exposure to certain chemicals before they conceive and during their pregnancies.
Changes in the brains of children at high-risk for developing autism who later go on to develop the condition can be detected as early as six months of age, long before any signs of autistic behavior appear.
Infants’ Tylenol Oral Suspension, 1 oz. Grape, recalled after consumers reported difficulty using the product’s dosing system.
Increases in copayments of only a few dollars led to declines in the use of several healthcare services for the children they affected, according to a new study. Use of services with no increase in copayments did not decline.
The numbers are still small but some women opt for home for the convenience and to save money. Consumer health columnist Michelle Andrews reports.
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