Breast-fed kids smarter.
Byline: Kounteya Sinha NEW DELHI: Children who are breastfed after birth are smarter than those who aren't. According to the world's largest study on lactation and intelligence, that followed 17,046 children for six and a half years from birth, children whose mothers exclusively breastfed them...

Breast-feeding support not what it should be.
U.S. women breast-feed at levels far below national targets, and one reason may be that they get inadequate support for breastfeeding in hospitals and birth centers. (1) A nationwide survey of such facilities yielded data that were grouped into scales assessing practices regarding mother-newborn contact after delivery and during...

10 maternity homes under scanner.
Byline: Radha Sharma GANDHINAGAR: Ten maternity hospitals in Rajkot are under state government scanner for an abnormally low sex ratio of less than 600 girls delivered per thousand boys! Rajkot is the first city where the government has completed the hospitalwise sex-ratio from birth registration...

Hospital ethics approval for a population-based case--control study of very preterm birth.
Abstract Aim: To describe the process involved in obtaining ethics approval for a study aiming to recruit women from all maternity hospitals in Victoria, Australia. Design: Observational data of the application process involving 85 hospitals throughout Victoria in 2001. Results: Twenty-three of the...

Rural midwifery and the sense of difference.
Abstract In New Zealand from the late 1960s the visits from the Maternity Services Committee to maternity facilities began the inexorable changes that led to a fully regionalized rural maternity service. Increased surveillance and compliance requirements in the wake of these changes accelerated the rate of rural...

Estranged women turn HIV+.
Byline: Roli Srivastava HYDERABAD: So far, promiscuous men have been held largely responsible for fuelling the HIV epidemic in India, but HIV/Aids experts now say men alone cannot be blamed. Promiscuity among women is on the rise, they say, with an increasing number of women...

Maternal cigarette smoking and breastfeeding duration.
Maternal cigarette smoking and breastfeeding duration Giglia R, Binns CW, Alfonso H 2006, Acta Paediatr 95(11): 1370-1374. The smoking of cigarettes during pregnancy is known to compromise the health benefits of breastfeeding by negatively impacting on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. The aim of this study...

Big hospitals have back-ups, but small clinics flounder.
Byline: Jeetha D'Silva The proposed power cuts could be a rude jolt to the city's healthcare providers, with nursing homes and small maternity hospitals likely to fare worse than well-established hospitals. Hospitals, nursing homes and chemists rely on uninterrupted power supply for their normal functioning....

Corporation's error-free birth certificates.
Byline: Siddhartha Kashyap PUNE: A municipal corporation issuing an birth or death certificate, online, is common, but in Solapur, the civic officials have embarked upon an ambitious project wherein a birth certificate will be issued the very same day, sans any error. "This is probably...

Apollo Hospitals to set up 25-30 maternity centres.
Byline: Khomba Singh NEW DELHI: To tap the Rs 4,500-crore maternity care market, India's largest healthcare company Apollo Hospitals plans to set up a chain of 25-30 exclusive birth facility centres, designed as home-like wellness centres. The centres will come up over 2-3 years. Apollo...