1. Five Teams Selected For PHR Project
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... of California, Irvine and Charles Drew University are collecting information from pre-term low birth weight infants and their primary caregivers to allow them to more easily interface with their health ...

2. GE Healthcare Highlights Portfolio of Molecular Imaging Innovations at European Association of Nuclear Medicine 2009
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... low birth weight. Have anaphylactic and hypersensitivity treatment measures available prior to AdreView administration. AdreView is cleared by glomerular filtration and is not dialyzable. The radiation ...

3. GE Healthcare Debuts Dedicated Molecular Imaging Business at 2009 SNM Conference
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... low birth-weight infants. Benzyl alcohol has been associated with a fatal “Gasping Syndrome” in premature infants and infants of low birth weight. Have anaphylactic and hypersensitivity treatment measures ...

4. Some Radiation Therapy Treatments can Decrease Fertility
(Modalities/Radiology )

... preterm labor, low birth weight and placental abnormalities. The study also determined that women who received low doses of ovarian radiation can suffer early menopause. Ovarian transposition was proven ...

5. Some Radiation Therapy Treatments Decreases Fertility
(Organizations/ASTRO)

... labor, low birth weight and placental abnormalities. The study also determined that women who received low doses of ovarian radiation can suffer early menopause. Ovarian transposition was proven to be ...

6. New York City death rate reaches historic low
(Imported/Imported)

... recent year on record. The leading causes of infant mortality, both in New York City and nationally, are birth defects, premature birth and low birth weight. The Health Department is taking steps to reduce ...

7. Birth weight Z score tied to neonatal outcome in severe fetal compromise
(Imported/Imported)

In pregnancies complicated by severe placental insufficiency, the birth weight Z score is better than Doppler-derived blood flow measurements in predicting neonatal mortality and serious morbidity, researchers ...

8. Diet can increase brain growth in infants with perinatal brain injury
(Imported/Imported)

... complications of premature birth. Half of the 16 infants in the study (the average-energy group) received a diet providing 100 per cent of the estimated average requirement based on age and birth weight ...

9. Positive autism screen common in ex-preterm infants
(Imported/Imported)

... April issue of Pediatrics. A number of studies have shown that very low birth weight children are at risk for atypical psychosocial development, lead researcher Dr. Catherine Limperopoulos and colleagues ...

10. Heavy birthweight increases risk of developing RA
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... from getting rheumatoid arthritis by making sure their birth weight wasn’t over ten pounds, this is a risk factor that could be modifiable. You can’t change someone’s age. You can’t change someone’s gender, ...

11. Research highlights problems of predicting birthweights in obese mothers
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... to determine whether the baby is larger than the average size of babies for its gestational age. This data is then used to predict the final birth weight. GAP is very useful when a pregnant woman is ...

12. New ultrasound calculation predicts birth weight in obese pregnant women
(Communities/Ultrasound)

Birth weight can be fairly accurately predicted in obese women at 34-36 weeks gestation, using a calculation that involves gestational age projection. Birth weight can be fairly accurately predicted ...

13. Low birth weight raises risk of reduced renal function in childhood
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

Children born with low birth weight are at heightened risk for an exaggerated blood pressure response to dietary salt, in concert with reduced renal mass, Swiss researchers report in the August 11 early ...

14. Pulse oximetry screening fails to spot congenital heart defects in neonates
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... Center came to this conclusion after studying stable hospital-born neonates. The infants had a gestational age of at least 35 weeks, a birth weight of 2100 g or more, and were not suspected to have a critical ...

15. Reduced brain tissue volume seen with postnatal dexamethasone
(Imported/Imported)

MRI used to observe preterm infants with extremely low birth weight.In a study of preterm infants with extremely low birth weight (1,000 grams or less), clinicians observed smaller global and regional ...

16. Serious infections during infancy may increase arthritis risk
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... birth (< 259 days), birth weight below 3000 g and small for gestational age birth," the investigators report. By contrast, having more than three older siblings and large for gestational age birth weight ...

17. New ultrasound calculation predicts birth weight in obese pregnant women
(Communities/Ultrasound)

Tags: [birth weight,obese,gestational age prediction]  ...

18. Low birth weight raises risk of reduced renal function in childhood
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

Tags: [low birth weight, renal function, hypertension, salt, reduced renal mass]  ...