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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High fevers and other potentially serious symptoms in infants should not be written off as normal signs of teething, according to a new study.The study, which followed 47 infants over eight months, found that teething typically caused ...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. hospitals are not doing enough to encourage mothers to breast-feed their newborns, raising the risk of childhood obesity, diabetes and other conditions, according to a federal study released on Tuesday.Less than 4 percent of the country's hospitals fully ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are cautioning new parents about sharing breast milk as a growing number of women are using social networking and other websites to share their milk instead of turning to infant formula.Health experts have long promoted breast-feeding ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Longer breastfeeding may increase, not decrease, the risk of a common itchy skin condition called atopic dermatitis that develops in about 12 percent of babies, a new study from Taiwan suggests.Atopic dermatitis is a type of eczema, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies are less likely to develop a respiratory or gastrointestinal infection if they are exclusively breastfed for at least 6 months, according to a Dutch study.These findings, reported in the journal Pediatrics, support the World Health Organization ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoking during pregnancy, daycare attendance and breastfeeding might be some of the main factors people can change to affect whether their infants develop wheezing, an international study suggests.In a study of close to 29,000 children in two ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Breastfeeding may protect babies from post-vaccine fevers, according to a new study in the journal Pediatrics.It's not uncommon for an infant's temperature to climb soon after immunization, Dr. Alfredo Pisacane of Universita Federico II in Napoli, Italy, ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Babies who are bottle-fed early on may consume more calories later in infancy than babies who are exclusively breastfed, a study published Monday suggests.Researchers found that among 1,250 infants followed for the first year of life, those ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sticking to a strict diet of mom's milk during the first 4 months of life may reduce a child's risk of developing asthma by their eighth birthday, according to a new study."Breast milk is the optimal food ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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 ...
