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03 Sep 2023

Screen Time In Infants May Increase Risk Of Developmental Delays: Study

The study reveals increased screen time is associated with developmental delays in only the communication and problem-solving domains.

01 Sep 2023

Covid-19 Pandemic Infants Show Reduced Gut Bacteria: Study

The study showed that infants whose gut microbes were sampled during the pandemic had lower alpha diversity of the gut microbiome, meaning that there were fewer species of bacteria in the gut.

07 Aug 2023

Lipid In Breast Milk May Lower Cerebral Palsy In Newborn Babies: Study

The fact that this molecule is already found in something that is safe for premature babies -- breast milk -- is extremely encouraging.

01 Jul 2023

Babies Talk More Around Man-Made Objects Than Natural Ones: Study

Infants often communicate with protophones, which are sounds resembling squeals, growls or short word-like noises such as "da", "aga" and "ba" These are considered the foundations of speech, as they eventually evolve into full language Objects play an important role in this process, as the more vocalisation an object encourages, the closer a young child is to talking

22 Jun 2023

Cellular Response Linked With Down Syndrome Chromosome May Impair Heart

The scientists demonstrated that blocking the antiviral cellular response, or the interferon response, improved cardiogenesis.

20 Mar 2023

Infants Modulate Behaviour Based On Their Social Interactions: Study

The study reveals that infants choose between different actions under every social context by assessing which action will result in the most rewarding outcome.

06 Dec 2020

Madhya Pradesh: 362 infants die in Shahdol in 8 months

Due to low weight the number of sick children are increasing in Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh. In the last 8 months, 362 infants have died due to this reason.

01 Sep 2020

Research shows how brain flexibility emerges in infants

Publishing their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers show that brain regions with high neural flexibility appear consistent with the core brain regions that support cognitive flexibility processing in adults, whereas brain regions governing basic brain functions, such as motor skills, exhibit lower neural flexibility in adults, demonstrating the emergence of functionally flexible brains during early infancy. The research found that neural flexibility increased with age across the whole brain, and specifically in brain regions that control movement, potentially enabling infants to learn new motor skills.

14 Jan 2020

Eight infants die in six Madhya Pradesh hospitals

Chief Minister Kamal Nath asked health minister Tulsi Silawat to look into the matter. Silawat has ordered a probe into the incident.

18 Sep 2018

Over 8 lakh infants died in India in 2017: UN

About 8,02,000 infant deaths were reported in India in 2017, the lowest in five years, according to the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME).

19 Mar 2018

Here's why breastfeeding is important for infants

A new study has revealed that breastfeeding can protect the high-birthweight infants from being overweight or obese in childhood.

16 Feb 2018

Heart surgery in infants may cause deafness

For the study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, the researchers analyzed neurodevelopmental outcomes in these children. A total of 75 children were found to have developed hearing loss.

04 Jan 2018

Despite being twins, these US infants share different birth date, year

Reportedly, the twins were due on January 27 and their mother was supposed to have a c-section on January 10 but she went into labour on New Year's Eve.

04 Dec 2017

Newborns under stress feel more pain but don't express it

Stressed newborn babies brains show a heightened response to pain, but the baby is unlikely to express it by crying, a study reveals.

25 Nov 2017

Babies can infer motivations of others much earlier than thought

The ability to assess how much someone values a particular goal requires integrating information about both the costs of obtaining a goal and the benefit gained by the person seeking it.

28 Oct 2017

AI may help evaluate brain maturity in preterm infants

The new electroencephalogram (EEG) software, which can record the electrical activity of the brain, is the first EEG-based brain maturity evaluation system in the world, the researchers said.

Children health

20 Sep 2017

Kids exposed to pet allergens as infants at lower risk of developing asthma

The finding could help design strategies to prevent asthma from developing, alleviating the burden of this disease placed on millions of people, as well as on their families and communities, researchers said.

02 Aug 2017

World Breastfeeding Week 2017: Here's why you should breastfeed your baby!

Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child's good health and survival.

Cognitive health

28 Jul 2017

Babies are smarter than you think – Can predict people's behaviour, judge preferences!

The findings demonstrated that infants look for consistent patterns of behaviour and make judgements about people's preferences based on simple probabilities calculated from observed events and actions.

27 Jun 2017

Premature babies at great risk of dying from sudden infant death syndrome: Study

The researchers found that infants born between 24 to 27 weeks had a more than three times higher chance than babies born full term of dying before their first birthday of a sudden unexpected infant death, which is comprised of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths.

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