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 Baby Information - January 9, 2009
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Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Contributor Dr. Holger J. Sorenson and colleagues at Copenhagen University and the U.S. studied the relationship between short duration of breast-feeding and alcoholism, taking into account the environmental and familial factors | | A 10-day old baby with a rare metabolic disorder receives a liver transplant that saves his life. The Associated Press reports Jacob Gibbs had OTC-deficiency, which is fatal in males | | Women can maximize their chances of having healthy babies by spacing their pregnancies at least 18 months but no more than five years apart, according to a new report. According to AP, researchers reached that conclusion after an analysis of 67 international studies involving more than 11 million pregnancies | | A study published in the journal of Pediatrics says a brief delay in clamping umbilical cords of babies born before 32 weeks may be beneficial. University of Rhode Island researcher Judith Mercer says she's determined such a procedure protects the infants from brain bleeding and infections | | Good news for advancing Baby Boomers, increasing in age does not necessarily cause a reduction in the quality of life, researchers have found that in some cases it can even improve it. Research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, outlines how investigators looked at indicators of the quality of life, and discovered that in England it is above average between the ages of 50 and 84, and in some cases increases compared with earlier years | |
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