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Women with a history of serious mental illness are much more likely to have babies that are stillborn or die within the first month of life, new research reveals. Researchers at the Centre for Women's Mental health at The University of Manchester studied almost 1.5 million births in Denmark between 1973 and 1998, including 7,021 stillbirths.

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that Russia has chosen inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) from Sanofi Pasteur for primary immunization of all infants. The IPV doses are provided by M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Virus Encephalitides through a manufacturing agreement with Sanofi Pasteur. IPV vaccination started in the summer of 2008 as part of Russia National "Project health.

The Healthcare Commission confirmed that it would examine concerns about services at Birmingham Children's hospital at the request of the Secretary of State for health. Nigel Ellis, the Commission's Head of Investigations, said: "We cannot comment in detail at this stage, however we are taking the concerns raised very seriously. We will publish an independent report detailing our findings, in due course.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Minority children waiting for a heart transplant have a higher death rate than white youngsters, say researchers who analyzed eight years of data from the United Network of Organ Sharing.

New community coalition joins RNs in Wed. rally against closures- Latino children disproportionately at risk State legislators will join University of California Irvine Medical Center (UCIMC) registered nurses in sounding the alarm on the latest public healthcare crisis at the hospital.

Study highlights: Minority children on the waitlist for a heart transplant have a greater risk of dying than white children do. Socioeconomic factors explain only a small fraction of this increased risk. When all factors including race, area income and insurance were simultaneously considered, children with Medicaid insurance were 20 percent more likely to die while awaiting transplant.

Many children love sending and receiving text messages through their cell phones - sometimes to the great annoyance of their parents. But now a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests this technology could be used to reduce children's chances of becoming overweight or obese later in life, by helping them monitor and modify their own behaviors now.

Emory University in Atlanta is playing a key role in the largest, most comprehensive study ever funded by the National Institute of Mental health (NIMH) of adolescents and young adults at risk for developing a psychotic disorder. The five-year, $25-million study joins the resources of Emory and seven other major research universities, with the goal of identifying more precise predictors for psychosis, and a better understanding of the neural mechanisms involved.

Growth hormone treatment may significantly increase final height in children diagnosed with short stature, even in cases where the child is not growth hormone deficient, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

Some physicians and abortion-rights advocates are raising concerns that a federal law that requires physicians to provide adoption and medical information to women who receive prenatal diagnoses of Down syndrome or other genetic conditions "could pry open the door of privacy" between patients and physicians, the St.