About Half of 'Miracle Babies' Have Disabilities by Age 6

The Washington Post ^ | January 6, 2005 | From News Services

[neverdem]

FINDINGS

Nearly half of all infants born extremely premature have significant learning and physical disabilities by the time they reach school age, the largest such study has found.

Medical advances have allowed doctors to save earlier and smaller babies.

Normal pregnancy is 37 to 42 weeks. Neil Marlow, a neonatologist at the University of Nottingham in Britain, and colleagues looked at 241 children about 6 years old who had been born between 22 and 25 weeks. They found that 46 percent had severe or moderate disabilities such as cerebral palsy, vision or hearing loss and learning problems; 34 percent were mildly disabled; and 20 percent had no disabilities. They report the findings in today's New England Journal of Medicine.

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In Study, Antibiotics Effective Against Lou Gehrig's Disease

Antibiotics could one day help patients suffering from neurological diseases, scientists said yesterday.

If a family of antibiotics produces the same effect in humans as it did in mice, researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore believe the drugs could help to prevent nerve damage and death in illnesses such as dementia, stroke and epilepsy.

In studies of mice genetically engineered to develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, researchers discovered that daily injections of the drug ceftriaxone improved survival and reduced symptoms of the disease that attacks nerve cells and causes paralysis and death.

They found that the drug turned on a gene that increased the number of transporters that remove the brain chemical glutamate from nerves. Glutamate usually helps electrical signals travel from one nerve to another, but too much of the chemical can kill nerves.

A team led by Jeffrey Rothstein, a professor of neurology and neuroscience, reported the findings in the journal Nature.

[Salvation]

God bless you and Bill Porter!

[Salvation]

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[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[aruanan]

About Half of 'Miracle Babies' Have Disabilities by Age 6

"Weed be beter of ded," defective "Miracle Babies" plead.

[fatima]

What is their point?

[Coleus]

I think they are advocating the thought that since a preemie usually becomes ill later in life with some health problems, it would be better to euthanise them. That may be the story behind the story.

[fatima]

I see.