Sentences with phrase «by preventing birth defects»

Other volunteer activities included service with the March of Dimes, helping to raise thousands for the nonprofit organization which works to improve the lives of babies by preventing birth defects.

March of Dimes - Improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality.

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Today we're joined by Robert Felix, he is a Teratogen Information Specialist for MotherToBaby California who provides education and research to help expecting mothers prevent birth defects.

Rarely, constipation is caused by Hirschsprung's disease, a condition caused by a birth defect that prevents a baby's gut from functioning properly.

The results suggest a portion of congenital birth defects could be prevented by lowering the mother's fever with the judicious use of acetaminophen during the first trimester, said senior author Eric Benner, M.D., Ph.D., a neonatologist and assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke.

Providing women who take a powerful acne drug with a fact sheet about contraception while visiting the dermatologist can significantly improve their awareness of the most effective birth control options and may prevent unintended pregnancies and birth defects that can be caused by the drug, according to a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine study published Feb. 4 in the journal JAMA Dermatology.

Among pregnant women infected with HIV, the use of antiretroviral (ARV) medications early in pregnancy to treat their HIV or to prevent mother - to - child transmission of HIV does not appear to increase the risk of birth defects in their infants, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

A new publicity campaign by the British government to highlight the benefits of folic acid in preventing birth defects has been described by the Association of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus as «too little, too late».

He studies the biological signals that shape heart development in an embryo, and discoveries made by his laboratory may lead to better ways to heal or even prevent holes in the hearts of infants, the most common birth defect.

The discovery in 1991 that about 70 percent of neural tube defects, a group of serious birth defects, could be prevented by the consumption of synthetic folic acid led to...