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The conclusions of a new scientific investigation would appear to suggest that the brains of infants are very plastic in their response to music. Exposure to interactive music classes at the age of 1 was found to have beneficial effects on the young one's mental abilities.
Babies who participated in these clas... |
11 May 2012
06:01 GMT |
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A paper published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology suggests that infants born after the normal human gestational period (42 weeks) are more likely to develop emotional and behavioral problems later on in life.
These problems begin to manifest themselves since early childhood. In this... |
5 May 2012
05:43 GMT |
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A group of investigators in Sweden says that expecting mothers who consume drugs in a class of antidepressant medication known as serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) during late pregnancy run a higher risk of giving birth to babies suffering from high blood pressure in the lungs.
The risk itself is statist... |
18 January 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Putting infants and toddlers to sleep during the day may contribute to decreasing their risks of suffering from mood-related disorders later on, the conclusions of a new study show. The paper proves that the young brain is working heavily on self-control during these brief naps.
Unfortunately, scientists say, the c... |
5 January 2012
05:59 GMT |
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Judge Marcelo Aguinsky decided to fine GlaxoSmithKline Argentina Laboratories, a subsidiary of the worldwide pharmaceuticals giant, with 400,000 pesos ($92.500 dollars) for the killing of 14 infants during illegal vaccine trials conducted in Argentina.
The country does not allow medical tests of this nature to be c... |
4 January 2012
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Adults apparently have different degrees of credibility in the eyes of infants, scientists explain. In a new study, it was determined that children carefully select who they imitate, even though the behavior comes naturally to them.
Until now, it was believed that babies would copy the behaviors of whomever they ca... |
12 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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The American Academy of Pediatrics has just released a new set of guidelines on how to diagnose and treat attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD). The document provides the necessary foundation for experts to diagnose the condition in children as young as 4.According to the new document, pediatrics experts are ... |
18 October 2011
03:10 GMT |
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University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing scientists have determined that children with low weight at birth tend to be 500 percent more likely to develop autism than peers who are of normal weight.Investigators carried out the new study because they wanted to know whether natal prematurity was indeed linked to a h... |
17 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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University of Washington scientists have recently made a remarkable discovery as they were investigating the brain of infants. They found that, even at the age of 15 months, the young ones were perfectly capable of displaying altruism, as also sense inequality and when someone was being unfair.
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12 October 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom have determined in a new investigation that more than 70 percent of all babied aged at around 8 months get way much salt in their diet than the maximum recommended levels. The largest part of this amount of salt comes from highly processed foods.Experts at the University of Bristol sa... |
1 August 2011
10:14 GMT |
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences demonstrate in a new study that small infants as young as 16 months can distinguish between the effects of their actions, and the consequences of actions taken by others. Understanding the difference comes natura... |
24 June 2011
07:55 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Virginia say that breastfeeding lowers the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), a condition in which newborns and small children simply die in their cradles. For a long time, an explanation as to why this happens has been pending. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) managed... |
13 June 2011
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In a new study, experts found that exposure to cats and dogs during infants' first year of life is positively correlated to a decrease in the little ones' risk of developing allergies to pets later on. Until now, scientists believed that exposing infants to cats or dogs had no significant influence on the w... |
13 June 2011
09:53 GMT |
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Studies conducted for more than 20 years have revealed that, even at a very young age, children know some of the most basic aspects of the physical world. In a new research, experts discover how infants devise their own, sophisticated expectations based on unfolding situations.One of the things that the young ones le... |
27 May 2011
07:45 GMT |
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For centuries, popular wisdom had it that infants tend to wake up taller than they were when they went to bed. Now, scientific studies finally confirm the old saying, providing the first verifiable clues to certify this connection.Apparently, the two are tied together in all aspects, researchers say, after conducting... |
2 May 2011
10:16 GMT |
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For many years, sociologists have believed that it's primarily men who behave aggressively towards infants, for example shaking them when they don't stop crying. But a new research found that women are just as likely to do this as well, but are far less inclined to admit it. These are the conclusions of a n... |
14 March 2011
02:23 GMT |
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Healthcare experts determined in previous studies that infants born with reduced weight tended to become obese later in life, a lot more so than their peers with a normal birth weight. A new research sheds light on the mechanisms underlying this correlation. Scientists discovered that the primary reason for which thi... |
10 March 2011
09:02 GMT |
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A lot have changed these past years – parents are far busier and less patient than they were once, breast milk can be replaced with all sorts of baby formulas and there is also the baby food that you can buy at your supermarket.The point is that babies nowadays eat a lot of things they shouldn't, or at lea... |
10 January 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Vaccinating pregnant women against the influenza virus proved to be over ninety percent effective in preventing their newborn children from being hospitalized with the flu, during their first six months of life, concluded Yale School of Medicine researchers, after a three-year study.The research was led by first auth... |
15 December 2010
04:03 GMT |
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A new longitudinal study carried out by researchers at the University of Montreal and the University of Minnesota, concluded that children at one year old and at one year and a half old, that get most of their sleep during the nighttime, develop better skills than infants who sleep mostly during the day.The study inv... |
16 November 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Vital stages of growth and development in the womb are critical for fetuses, and it would now appear that they also control the chances a newborn will have of being allergies to various substances called allergens. Over the past few decades, the world has experienced a massive surge in allergy cases, which now affect... |
25 October 2010
09:02 GMT |
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New mothers tend to experience a gray matter boost in the months following the delivery of their baby or babies, even if that time is generally considered to be very stressful. Certain regions of their brains grow in size, researchers have demonstrated in a new study. In other words, women are not “losing their... |
21 October 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Healthcare experts and parents alike have believed for a long time that giving sugar water to small children before various procedures may ease the little one's pains. That is simply not true, a new study suggests. Sweet drinks apparently do little to quell the pain sensation, show the new investigation, which w... |
3 September 2010
06:32 GMT |
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The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is one of the most puzzling medical conditions doctors have ever met. Basically, this is the name experts gave situations in which children simply die in their crib, although to recognizable factors that may have caused their death are ever discovered. Male children were found ... |
2 August 2010
03:46 GMT |
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New data recently made public appear to suggest that allowing a few extra moments between the moment of birth and the time when the umbilical cord is severed could bring additional health benefits to the newborn. At this time, it is standard practice for doctors to clamp the cord connecting the mother and her child i... |
25 May 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Researchers have recently determined that small children are capable of learning very quickly even while sleeping. While this may seem bizarre at first, it actually makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary perspective, given the fact that infants spend the vast majority of their time sleeping. The ability to process... |
18 May 2010
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According to a new study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), babies who are taught how to swim from a very early age tend to exhibit a number of advantages later on in life, even when they turn five years old. The research team says that the small ones tend to have better balance, and to b... |
7 May 2010
11:00 GMT |
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As all parents know, small children have a variety of cries that they employ in very specific situations. They have one for when they need their diapers changed, and one for when they're hungry. They also alert parents differently when they are in pain, or when they are sleepy. These emotions, or rather the key ... |
25 February 2010
08:33 GMT |
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Many healthcare experts and parents advocate the necessity of creating a viable feeding plan for premature babies, which involves giving the children food at regular, pre-determined intervals. But a new scientific study seems to indicate that infants could be discharged faster from the hospital if they are fed each t... |
18 February 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Scientists were surprised to find out recently that playing Mozart's music to prematurely born babies boosted their growth rate, and helped them survive their ordeal better than children who were played no such music. The work also revealed that the children who listened to classical music tended to become stron... |
14 January 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Being wary of dangers is, arguably, one of the things that allowed our once-fragile species to become strong enough to take over the planet. Our ancestors developed a large number of reflex and pattern-recognition connections in their brains, in order to maximize their chances of survival. But experts have always bee... |
25 September 2009
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A new scientific study finds that, in spite of having lived close to humans for the last several tens of millennia, dogs are utterly unable to read a person's mind. The recent experiments focused on the behavior of dogs, which proved that they still trusted unreliable people. The finds again hammer down the so-... |
18 August 2009
06:11 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, infants just six months old have the ability to distinguish between the meaning of various types of dog barks, despite having limited or no contact with the animals previous to the experiments. The investigation revealed that the youngsters could positively associate angry snarls ... |
21 July 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Infants who spend a lot of time in front of the TV may set themselves up for difficulties in learning later on in life, a new scientific research shows. It would appear that even babies under 1 or 2 years of age are capable of “zoning out” in front of the screen, and that this type of behavior may tr... |
2 June 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Although many may think of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) as to a relatively new reproductive method, the truth is that it has been operating at full speed for at least a decade. Data collected by experts between 2000 and 2002 revealed the fact that the number of children obtained through artificial insemination during... |
28 May 2009
08:54 GMT |
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At a UN conference on race that took place on Wednesday, the message that the Vatican had to send was pretty clear – the Catholic Church feared that genetic alterations of babies could spawn a new type of racism worldwide. Pope Benedict XVI argues that the ability to alter traits in unborn babies could lead to ... |
23 April 2009
08:32 GMT |
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In a new scientific study conducted on innocent mice, researchers have discovered that the eating habits of the mother rat considerably influence the genetic traits of its offspring, giving new meaning to the expression “a mother eats for two.” The find may notably influence doctors' pieces of advice... |
14 April 2009
09:51 GMT |
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Being subjected to two languages at once seems to have a very beneficial effect on infants, a new scientific study shows. After just a few months, they are able to understand learning cues far more efficiently than their peers from single-language households, a trait that they keep throughout their lives. Experts are... |
14 April 2009
06:37 GMT |
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According to British researchers who have just recently published a new scientific study on the matter, children who are born very prematurely are highly likely to have a way lower IQ than their peers. They are also even more prone to needing additional assistance in coping with the demands of primary schools, and es... |
12 March 2009
04:47 GMT |
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In the photos released by British newspaper The Sun, 13 year-old Alfie Patten is seen holding what at first glance would seem to be his sister. However, the fact of the matter is that the young lad has just two days ago become the father of 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne, a child that he has with 15 year-old girlfriend Chant... |
13 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, infants who are born prematurely have a much higher chance of developing autism during childhood than those born on term. Doctors say that the longer the baby remains in the mother's womb, the more the chances for the terrible disease decrease. For these results, scientists f... |
29 January 2009
06:28 GMT |
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Newborn babies are at increased risk of developing influenza, as compared to other children, because of the fact that their immune system is still weak in their first weeks of life. The flu accounts for many deaths among infants who contracted this disease from family members, who didn't get their flu shots... |
27 October 2008
02:50 GMT |
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The intricate processes behind newborns developing an immune system have been exposed for the first time by scientists at the California Institute of Technology. Using gold atoms to track down proteins inside the new body, they uncovered that the antibodies transmitted by the mother through breast milk or through the... |
13 October 2008
08:41 GMT |
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The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is still one of America's most worrying problems today. The infant mortality rate, although decreasing by almost 50 percent since the 1990s, is still high, and SIDS occurs frequently. Parents and doctors are desperately trying to determine what exactly causes the syndrome, but so... |
7 October 2008
02:44 GMT |
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