A five-week old infant most likely contracted a vaccine strain of yellow fever virus through breastfeeding,according to a case report published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “Until recently,avoidance of vaccination of breastfeeding women with yellow fever vaccine had been based on theoretical grounds only,”writes Dr. Susan Kuhn,with coauthors. “We report the [...] [...]
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          | By LAURA A. JANA MD,FAAP,AND JENNIFER SHU,MD,FAAP HealthyChildren.org The following is an excerpt from “Heading Home With Your Newborn:From Birth to Reality”(Second Edition):Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS),sometimes called crib death,is the sudden,unexplained death of an otherwise healthy baby during the first year. It is certainly not a topic [...] [...] Vote for the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center InfantRisk Center in the Pepsi Refresh Project contest and benefit mothers and babies by showing your support for a HSC project that will impact the nation. Currently there is no central source of information in the U.S. that can help women sort out their options on which medications [...] [...] In a study of more than 17,000 women,researchers found that although certain common gene variants raise the risk of developing breast cancer,they add to,but do not multiply,the risks posed by lifestyle factors like obesity or drinking. The findings did not include the breast cancer genes known as BRCA-1 and BRCA-2 that occur [...] [...] Breastfeeding is often advocated as a way to help prevent allergies in babies at high risk,but a new study finds that infants breastfed for longer periods may actually be more likely to develop the allergic skin condition eczema…[...] |                | |
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