Gestation

  1. Medical Futility Trend Seen in Neonatal Deaths

    Article

    Tue, 5 Jul 2011

    and most of those neonatal deaths occur after a ..... a regional referral neonatal intensive care unit ..... preterm (less than 32 weeks of gestation ). Thirty-five percent ..... this regional referral neonatal intensive care unit

  2. Higher Oxygen Levels Improve Preemie Survival: Study

    Article

    Wed, 27 Apr 2011

    including death, a neonatal expert said. "The ..... infants born before 28 weeks of gestation . Oxygen concentrations ..... born earlier than 28 weeks of gestation ." Bancalari thinks ..... Bancalari said his neonatal unit never went to

  1. Birth Even a Few Weeks Early May Raise Odds for ADHD

    Article

    Tue, 19 Apr 2011

    to be given more attention in neonatal care, and in follow-up within ..... for children born at 37 to 38 weeks of gestation , to 40 percent for those born ..... percent for those born at 29 to 32 weeks of gestation . Children born very preterm

  2. Pronounced dead, revived by hug: 'Miracle baby' turns 2

    Article

    Thu, 8 Mar 2012

    sensitive” to pleasant human touch. TODAY Kate ..... born as early as 28 weeksgestation . In Johnston’s studies now ..... see in most NICUs ( neonatal intensive care units ..... scientific concepts of when human development ..... makes a blob of cells a human person, and when it

  3. Autism Tests for Preemies May Be Faulty, Study Suggests

    Article

    Sun, 1 May 2011

    at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. Many neonatal specialists follow the recommendation of the American ..... lives. Babies in the study had been born before 28 weeks of gestation and were assessed for autism spectrum disorder using

  4. Experimental Test May Warn of Premature Births

    Article

    Wed, 20 Apr 2011

    percent to 90 percent of the premature births at 28 weeks of gestation . The false positive rate -- referring to tests ..... 20 percent. The test wasn't as effective at 24 weeks of gestation . "This may simply indicate that some of the causes

  5. Progesterone helps cut risk of pre-term birth

    Article

    Wed, 14 Dec 2011

    ultrasound to detect a short cervix between 19 and 24 weeks of gestation . Women found to have a short cervix should be considered ..... are pre-term, occurring before the 37th week of gestation , including 11 million in Africa and Asia, 900,000

  6. Fetal Surgery Could Boost Outcomes in Severe Spina Bifida - iVillage

    Article

    Wed, 9 Feb 2011

    Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the U.S. National Institutes ..... two-hour prenatal surgery between 19 and almost 26 weeks of gestation , and one to undergo a similar post-delivery surgery

  7. Mom's Exposure to Plastics Chemical Tied to Baby's Wheeze

    Article

    Mon, 2 May 2011

    measured in the mothers' urine at 16 and 26 weeks ' gestation and when they gave birth. The parents reported ..... high BPA levels early in pregnancy -- 16 weeks ' gestation -- but not at 26 weeks ' gestation or birth. "Consumers need more information

  8. Super-social gene may hold clues to autism

    Article

    Tue, 25 Oct 2011

    Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bellugi ..... decode the ties between human genes and the way ..... something as complex as human behavior down to the level ..... premature birth at 35 weeks gestation , and assured the Waldners

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