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No vertical mom-to-baby transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, occurred in a study of 64 pregnant women with confirmed COVID, reports a study yesterday in
While placental positioning of the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and transmembrane serine protease 2 (TMPRSS2) receptors two main ways SARS-CoV-2 enters cells may provide fetal protection in utero, the researchers found unexpectedly low transference of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from mother to child.
The study, led by Andrea Edlow, MD, maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), focused on mothers in the third trimester of pregnancy, which is when the highest transfer of maternal antibodies occurs.
Doctors protest attack on healthstaff at NICH
Say minor girl died due to unavailability of ventilator; FIR lodged against father of girl, others
The CM has directed the health minister to submit a proposal for the expansion of NICH. PHOTO: FILE
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Doctors and other healthcare staff of the National Institute of Child Health protested on Monday against vandalism and assault on doctors by the family of an infant girl who had died at the health facility.
The protesting doctors and staff also boycotted the Out Patient Department (OPD) on the day. Eighteen-month-old minor girl, Sara Khan, had passed away on Saturday night, due to pneumonia. She had been under treatment at the paediatric ward at NICH. The protestors marched from Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre to NICH and shouted slogans calling for their demands to be met. The doctors condemned the attack on them and maintained that the baby had died due to the unavailability of a ventilator at the NICH, which was the Sindh g
Preschool program linked with better social and emotional skills years later
Students attending the REDI program were less likely to experience behavioral problems, trouble with peers and emotional symptoms like feeling anxious or depressed by the time they reached seventh and ninth grade.
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Preschool program linked with better social and emotional skills years later
Katie Bohn
December 10, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. A preschool enrichment program developed at Penn State helps boost social and emotional skills that still have positive effects years later during middle and high school, according to a new study.
The researchers found that students attending Head Start preschools that implemented the Research-based, Developmentally Informed (REDI) program were less likely to experience behavioral problems, trouble with peers, and emotional symptoms like feeling anxious or depressed by the time they reached seventh and ninth grade.
Originally published on December 17, 2020 2:09 pm
The fight against COVID-19 entered a new phase this week as American health care workers started getting vaccinated the first in what will be a massive effort. Science writer Ed Yong of
The Atlantic says the coming months will usher in the most complicated immunization program the U.S. has ever attempted. It s going to be a slow process, and there are a lot of possible roadblocks in the way in terms of producing the vaccine, distributing it, allocating it, Yong says. Don t think of the vaccine as a light switch that the minute it starts going into people s arms, normalcy resumes. . It s going to take awhile for things to get under control.
Originally published on December 17, 2020 2:09 pm
The fight against COVID-19 entered a new phase this week as American health care workers started getting vaccinated the first in what will be a massive effort. Science writer Ed Yong of
The Atlantic says the coming months will usher in the most complicated immunization program the U.S. has ever attempted. It s going to be a slow process, and there are a lot of possible roadblocks in the way in terms of producing the vaccine, distributing it, allocating it, Yong says. Don t think of the vaccine as a light switch that the minute it starts going into people s arms, normalcy resumes. . It s going to take awhile for things to get under control.