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- How Medical and Other Health Professionals Can Help Increase the Number of Infants Who Return for a Follow-up Evaluation
Each year, approximately 12,000 babies are born with hearing loss in the United States. If hearing loss is discovered during the "critical period" for children to develop their speech and language skills -- from birth to the first two to three years of life -- they will have a much better chance of keeping up with their peers in learning language and speech skills. If they miss this critical period of development, they can fall far behind their peers in these areas. This delay, in turn, can...
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Higher SIDS Risk Found in Infants Placed in Unaccustomed Sleeping Position
Infants accustomed to sleeping on their backs who are then placed to sleep on their stomachs or sides are at an increased risk for SIDS greater than the increased SIDS risk of infants always placed on their stomachs or sides. The study, conducted by Kaiser Permanente in Northern and Southern California and supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NIDCD), appears in the...
National Institutes of Health
- Pet Turtles Pose Risk of Salmonella
Infection for Infants and Small Children
The Houston Office of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging consumers not to purchase live, baby turtles, with a carapace (shell) of less than 4 inches, as pets. The FDA has been alerted to a resurgence in sales of live, baby turtles in Houston area malls. FDA prohibited the distribution and sale of baby turtles with shells 4 inches in length or less in 1970 after a quarter million infants and small children were diagnosed with having turtle-associated salmonellosis. The agency...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Vaccine Recommendations for Infants and Children
Each traveler needs to be fully up to date with routine childhood vaccinations because diseases covered by these vaccines that are now rare or nonexistent in the United States are still common in other areas of the world. The recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedule is depicted in Table 7–1. Table 7–2 depicts the catch-up schedule for children and adolescents who start their vaccination schedule late or who are >1 month behind. This table also describes the...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Study Confirms Safety of Placing Infants to Sleep on their Backs
Infants Who Sleep on Back Have Fewer Fevers and Ear Infections
A team of researchers reports that infants who are placed to sleep on their backs are not at increased risk for health problems, and they are less likely to develop fevers, get stuffy noses, or develop otitis media (ear infection). Placing infants to sleep on their backs has been found to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The current study goes beyond earlier studies from other countries, showing not only that there do not appear to be adverse health effects from placing...
National Institutes of Health
Organizations
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- National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center - http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~aiarc/
- Brown University/Women & Infants Hospital Center of Excellence - http://www.wihri.org
- National Association of Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Directors - http://www.wicdirectors.org
- Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, (WIC) USDA - http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/
News
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- Mom's gum disease ups risk of premature birth
Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:36 EST
- Some steroids safe for premature infants
The Earth Times - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:57 EST
- FDA: Rotavirus Vaccine May Harm Infants
Washington Post - Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:44 EST
- Merck Updates Prescribing Information For Rotateq®, The Company's Vaccine To Help Prevent Rotavirus Gastroenteritis In Infants And Children
MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Indian Government To Open Orphanages For Female Infants To Reduce Sex-Selective Abortion, Official Says
MedicalNewsToday - Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:00 EST
Clinical Trials
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- Vitamin D Dose-Response Study to Establish Dietary Requirements in Infants.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00381914 - Recruiting
Infants
- Orofacial Development of Preterm and Low Birthweight Infants Versus Term Infants
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00408746 - Recruiting
Premature Birth; Infant, Newborn; Pregnancy
- Assessment of the Pulmonary Diffusion Capacity in Healthy Infants and Infants With Chronic Lung Disease
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00428038 - Recruiting
Infant, Premature; Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia; Asthma
- Dosing Chart for Calculating the First Dose of Doxapram in Premature Infants
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00389909 - Recruiting
Premature Infants; Apnea
- Internal and Familial Resources and Motherhood. Follow Up of Mothers With Twins and Preterm Infants Versus Mothers With Single Full Term Infants
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00320840 - Not yet recruiting
Twins; Preterm Infants

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