Bloomberg.com reported this week that researchers have discovered a drug commonly used to prevent premature birth may also reduce the risk of cerebral palsy in premature infants. Bleeding Rose movie download download Sam Whiskey dvd According to the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a review of health records more than a decade ago suggested that premature newborns whose mothers were treated with magnesium sulfate — epsom salt — were less likely to have cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder that affects muscle tone and hampers movement and posture. Still, studies that followed yielded mixed results. Mulberry Street hd More than 5,000 children are diagnosed with cerebral palsy each year, and about 30 percent of them are born prematurely. The risk is greatest in children who spent the least amount of time in the womb. Snow Angels movie download Frankenstein video Children of Dune dvd Star Trek IV:…
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Epsom Salt May Cut Cerebral Palsy Risk in Preemies
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August 20, 2008Starship Troopers ipod A recent British study has found that the widely-used epilepsy drug Topamax® (topiramate) raises the risk of birth defects when taken by pregnant women. When combined with the drug valproate, the risk of the occurrence birth defects is even higher. For a Few Dollars More download A Haunting in Connecticut movie download Nemesis Game full movie The results are still statistically uncertain because the study included only 203 women, but experts were not surprised with the findings because Topamax has been shown to cause defects in animals. Target dvdrip Phenomenon rip buy Baja Beach Bums Bonneville full movie Of the 203 pregnancies in the study, 18 ended in spontaneous abortion, five in induced abortions, and two in stillbirths. Of the 178 babies born, 16 had major birth defects. In three of those cases, the mothers had only taken topiramate and the other 13 involved topiramate and other…
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Childhood Stroke Research May Shed Light on Cerebral Palsy
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