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Older women who ate more plant protein had lower risk of premature, dementia-related death

02/24/2021

Postmenopausal women who ate high levels of plant protein had lower risks of premature death, cardiovascular disease and dementia-related death compared with women who ate less plant proteins, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association. Previous research has shown an association between diets high […]

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Mouse study finds link between gut disease and brain injury in premature infants

01/06/2021

Physicians have long known that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a potentially lethal inflammatory condition that destroys a premature infant’s intestinal lining, is often connected to the development of severe brain injury in those infants who survive. However, the means by which the diseased intestine “communicates” its devastation to the newborn brain has remained largely unknown. Now, working with mice, researchers at […]

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First treatment closer for fatal disease affecting premature babies

11/17/2020

Melbourne researchers have published a breakthrough study that will accelerate new treatments for an often-fatal disease affecting premature babies in intensive care, called necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). The condition can trigger massive inflammation causing parts of preterm babies’ small and large intestine to die, posing a major challenge that clinicians treating these babies in neonatal intensive care units face, with fatality […]

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Study of one million children shows adversity increases risk of premature death in adulthood

08/17/2020

A new study published in The Lancet, conducted by researchers from the Universities of Copenhagen and Liverpool, shows that adversity in childhood increases the risk of premature death in early adulthood. Children who have experienced repeated serious adversity such as losing a parent, mental illness in the family, poverty or being placed in foster care have a 4.5 times higher […]

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Breast milk could help prevent heart disease caused by premature birth

11/27/2019

Early use of breast milk could play a vital role in preventing heart disease in prematurely born infants, according to a paper led by researchers at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and the Rotunda Hospital. The review article, published in the journal Pediatric Research, was written in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Medical School, University of Oxford and […]

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Acyclovir labeling now includes details for treating premature infants infected with herpes virus

02/11/2019

Newborns infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV) can be appropriately treated with acyclovir, a drug typically prescribed to adults for the treatment of HSV infections. Acyclovir’s drug label now includes information for healthcare providers on recommended usage and dosage in newborns up to 3 months of age. The data that informed this label change came from a study funded by […]

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Depressed people at higher risk of strokes and premature death

11/20/2018

Depressed people are at higher risk of fatal strokes and premature death caused by irregular heartbeats Patients taking antidepressants had a 3.18-fold higher risk of atrial fibrillation However, they had an even higher risk in the weeks before taking medication Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark studied 785,254 participants Atrial fibrillation, or arrhythmia, is the UK’s most common heart rhythm […]

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