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03/01/09
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Low Levels of Vitamin B12 May Increase Risk for Neural Tube Defects
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Children born to women who have low blood levels of vitamin B12 shortly before and after conception may have an increased risk of a neural tube defect, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, Trinity College Dublin, and the Health Research Board of Ireland. |
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10/29/08
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Earlier Jaundice Treatment Decreases Brain Injury In Preemies
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A study from a National Institutes of Health research network found that an early treatment to prevent severe newborn jaundice in extremely early preterm infants reduced the infants? rate of brain injury, a serious complication of severe jaundice. |
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09/16/08
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Roughly One Quarter of U.S. Women Affected By Pelvic Floor Disorders
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Nearly 24 percent of U.S. women are affected with one or more pelvic floor disorders, report researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health. Their analysis is the first to document in a nationally representative sample the extent of pelvic floor disorders, a cluster of health problems that causes physical discomfort and limits activity. |
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07/11/08
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Reading, Math Scores Up For 4th and 8th graders, Federal Report Shows
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The nation?s fourth and eighth graders scored higher in reading and mathematics than they did during their last national assessment, according to the federal government?s latest annual statistical report on the well-being of the nation?s children. Not all the report?s findings were positive; there also were increases in the adolescent birth rate and the proportion of infants born at low birthweight. |
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06/19/08
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Surgeon General's Conference Outlines Agenda to Prevent Preterm Birth
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Experts convened by the National Institutes of Health for the Office of the Surgeon General released an agenda today for activities in the public and private sectors to reduce the nation?s rate of preterm birth. The agenda calls for a national system to better understand the occurrence of preterm birth and a national education program to help women reduce their chances of giving birth prematurely. |
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05/29/08
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NIH Researchers Find That Rett Syndrome Gene is Full of Surprises
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A study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has transformed scientists' understanding of Rett syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes autistic behavior and other disabling symptoms. Until now, scientists thought that the gene behind Rett syndrome was an "off" switch, or repressor, for other genes. But the new study, published today in Science1, shows that it is an "on" switch for a startlingly large number of genes. |
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05/07/08
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Mothers' High Normal Blood Sugar Levels Place Infants at Risk for Birth Problems
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Pregnant women with blood sugar levels in the higher range of normal?but not high enough to be considered diabetes?are more likely than women with lower blood sugar levels to give birth to babies at risk for many of the same problems seen in babies born to women with diabetes during pregnancy, according to a study funded in large part by the National Institutes of Health. |
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