The case of childbirth complications are greatly increasing in the women due to continues bleeding after delivery, a new study conducted in Australia suggested.

In the review of hospital data from 1999 to 2004 of more than 500,000 mothers, researchers came to know that the ratio of adverse maternal complications have risen up to four percent.

The rate of complications after pregnancy, in 1999 was 11.5 in 1000 deliveries the complications include renal failure, loss of blood, or jee

In the 2004 the maternal complications elevated to the 13.8 percent.

Researchers also noticed that the increase in complications was typically in the women who suffered excessive blood loss (haemorrhaging) after delivery.

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Grandparents are known to spoil children but a new study has ditched this perception by proving that, they have strong influence on the improvement of social child behavior and skills.

Staying close to granny to grandpa appears to help children with one parent such as divorced according to the study findings. The results were published in the Journal of Family Psychology.

“Grandparents always have a supportive role but especially, they play a role of backbone in the families suffering from crisis. They can neutralize the negative effect of separation on the children and save them from the changes taking place within the family,” the study’s lead author, Shalhevet Attar-Schwartz said in the news release.

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Home healthcare is a formal, synchronized program of care delivered by a variety of healthcare experts at the patient’s residence. In the past decade, requirement of home healthcare has grown quickly.

Journal of Patient Safety, a quarterly, has printed a paper “Household-Related Hazardous Conditions with Implications for Patient Safety in the Home Healthcare Sector” in its December, 2008 issue. This research is based upon a study; conducted at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and health. The study has recognized various types and rate of unsafe and dangerous conditions discovered in the Home Healthcare.

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The FDA has issued a warning that people should avoid the use of drug patches while undergoing the MRI as, this can cause the skin burns.

Experiments have tested all kinds of brand and generic patches, which include painkiller, weight loss or steroid patches.

Some patches are soled without the caution and may contain aluminum. Thought the magnetic resonance does not attract this metal but it is a good conductor of electricity, producing heat that in result burns the skin FDA said.

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Hepatology; a medical journal dedicated to the study of liver, published a fresh research studying its March issue, revealing close link between ethnicity, fatty liver disease and insulin resistance. This study was conducted at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, headed by Jeffrey Browning.

Research was aimed at finding out the relation between ethnicity and two well-known ailments; fatty liver disease and insulin resistance. USA is suffering from a wide spread fatty liver disease these days.

Insulin is a hormone secreted by Pancreas and is responsible for regulation of glucose metabolism. Insulin resistance is a condition where body cells are unable to respond to insulin properly.

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Children of bipolar disorder patients are at high risk of mania episodes and depression. They may also develop bipolar disorders in relatively early age, researcher founded.

The study participants were 388 kids of 233 couples with bipolar disorders and controlled group of 251 kids of 143 parents without any psychiatric diagnosis. Researchers noted, children of bipolar parents have developed the bipolar spectrum disorder compared to less than one percent children of controlled group.

The mood disorders were also common in the kids of uncontrolled group, researchers added.

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Deficiency of vitamin B12 in the pregnant women may induce the brain or spinal cord defects in their babies, a new study founded.

Women who are vegetarian are at more risk because the vitamin B12 is more concentrated in meat and dairy products than the vegetables, American and Irish researches reported.

Study has founded that, in the women with the deficiency of B12, the risk is 2.5 times greater, to deliver child with neural tube defects which can bring about the partial paralysis or even death, than the pregnant women with the optimum level pf B12.

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A study has found that the kids, who remain unhappy in their childhood, grow up into disables or permanent sick adults, UK researchers found.

The researchers of the King’s College London flick through over seven thousand people, who were born between the years of 1950 to 1955.

Teachers used to describe them as unhappy and they were also not being able to work occasionally due to the sickness in the middle age. These children were the victim of depression as well, the researchers said.

Researchers asked teacher about such kids’ regularity and the disposition. They also found some of such kind of children, who were now in the middle age, to find out their employment status.

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In most of the multivitamin preparation for pregnant women, iodine is not sufficient as the manufacturers claim, that deficiency put the babies at the high risk of brain development disorders.

Tests of sixty brands reveal that, which claim to have iodine as key ingredient, do not contain the amount, stated on the label and are far less than the requirements of the pregnant mothers. The high risk has been noticed in the natural multivitamins because the obtain iodine from seaweed ash instead of salt.

“If the findings are absolutely correct, its mean supplements are not up to the mark,” FDA scientists said.

Iodine can be found naturally in the table salt, dairy products and the sea food. Iodine deficiency is the major cause of thyroid goiter and metal retardation, which affects the more than two billion people all over the world.

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SAN DIEGO (Reuters Health) – Women take longer than men to get to the hospital when they experience stroke symptoms and they have worse neurological deficits, investigators reported here at the International Stroke Conference 2009, sponsored by the American Stroke Association.

“Once they arrived at the hospital, women received the same treatment — the same speed of evaluation, and the same rate of treatment — but women took longer to get to the hospital,” said Dr. Louise D. McCullough of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington.

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Teenagers, who enjoy the humiliating music with sexual lyrics, can engage into sex at relatively early age, a U.S. study founded.

In a survey, researchers interviewed 711 youngsters about their music habit and sex life. They found, listener of music with sexually explicit and aggressive expressions, are more likely to have sex, almost double, than the non listeners.

But experts objected that, only music cannot be directly related with the sexual behavior.

The team of researchers classed such music, which present sex more physical act than the loving emotion and relate it to power.

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Scientists have experienced a new treatment of mild stroke, in which patients brain are treated with laser beams to minimize the effects of disease.

Laser therapy was failed to reduce the stroke disabilities in 660 patients in the initial clinical trial, but significant improvement has been seen in the patients with mild to moderate stroke after laser treatment.

In the U.S. stroke has become the number three cause of causalities and leading cause of the major disabilities and in the experts opinion, need of new treatments is urgent.

Since now, FDA has approved only one drug for the stroke, caused by the blood clot. This clot-busting drug is commonly known as plasminogen activator that must be administered within the three hours of stroke attack, in case of survival.

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