September E-zine
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Volume 2 - Issue Number 9, September
2006
1. Georgia SIDS
Project hosts our first annual “Servin’
4 SIDS” Tennis Clinic and Exhibition on
October 7th at the
2. Georgia SIDS
continues to offer risk reduction training on a fee scale basis. CEU’s for
nurses and child care workers available.
3. DHR Promotes Safe Sleep through a crib matching donation program
4. October is SIDS Awareness Month
5. New ACOG study on c-section
6. New CDC quick stats on births in or out of marriage.
7. Office of minority health adds resources to website on promotion of
breast feeding.
8. New studies on Autism
1.
The Servin’ 4 SIDS Charitable
Tennis Clinic and Exhibition will be held on Saturday, October 7th
at the Stone Mountain Tennis Center. This Charity Fund Raiser will be the key
to funding our bereavement support efforts for families in
2. The Georgia SIDS Project
has training available on a sliding fee scale. See our training options at www.sidsga.org
3.
4.
OCTOBER IS SIDS AWARENESS MONTH Many FIMR Programs work closely
with local SIDS organizations to increase awareness of protective behaviors
like placing infants on their backs to sleep. October’s observance provides
additional opportunities to link up with local and national educational campaigns
like the “Back to Sleep” campaign and SIDS risk reduction efforts. Visit these
websites during SIDS Awareness Month. Also come support your Georgia SIDS
Program . Visit www.sidsga.org
* The
Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs. This site lists local
coordinators and provides other information related to bereavement support. http://www.asip1.org
* The
National
* The
* The
SIDS Network. This website is targeted primarily to parents and families. It
contains stories from families who have experienced a loss, many sets of
frequently asked questions, chat rooms and links to other sites. http://www.sids-network.org/
* The
National SIDS Alliance/First Candle. http://www.firstcandle.org
This site has research and statistics and national grief resources.
5.
From
ACOG News Release: New Study: Cesarean Delivery Associated with Increased Risk
of Maternal Death. Cesarean delivery is associated with a three-fold increased
risk of postpartum maternal death when compared with vaginal delivery,
according to a new study in the September issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Researchers emphasized that cesarean delivery is major abdominal surgery and
that expectant women and physicians should carefully consider cesarean-related
surgical complications and the increased risk of death when choosing the method
of delivery. To read more http://www.acog.org/from_home/publications/press_releases/nr08-31-06-2.cfm
6.
CDC
QuickStats: Percentage of Parents* Who Were Married or Cohabiting* at Birth of
First Child, by Race/Ethnicity and Sex in US, 2002 Survey. According to 2002
survey data, CDC reports that among non-Hispanic whites, the birth of the first
child occurred during marriage for 77% of males and 74% of females. Among
Hispanics, the birth of the first child occurred during marriage for 52% of
males and 54% of females, and, among non-Hispanic blacks, it occurred during
marriage for 37% of males and 23% of females. To view the QuickStats graph of
these findings, go to http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5536a8.htm
7.
The
HHS Office of Minority Health is spreading the word about the benefits of
breastfeeding: http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=4493
The breastfeeding promotion webpage has information on further resources and
downloadable slides (in either Adobe PDF or PowerPoint format), useful for
trainings and client sessions.
8.
The
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), has launched three major clinical studies on autism at its
research program in
One study
will define differences -- both biological and behavioral -- in autistic
children with diverse developmental histories. Increasingly, scientists are
considering the likelihood of "autisms," that is, multiple disorders
that comprise autism. These studies seek to better define the subtypes within
autism. Children with regressive autism appear to develop normal language and
social skills but then lose these with the onset of autism before age 3.
Non-regressive autism, the more common form of the disorder, begins early in
life, possibly before birth, with evidence of subtle deficits throughout
development. Children with these two forms of autism will be compared with
those who have other developmental disorders, including various forms of
developmental delay, as well as children with typical development. In addition,
researchers will study a subset of the children in this study to investigate
environmental factors that may trigger symptoms of autism.
In
another study, NIMH researchers will examine the use of the antibiotic
minocycline to measure its usefulness in treating regressive autism. Past
research suggests that autism may be linked with changes in the immune response
that cause inflammation in the brain. Minocycline has known anti-inflammatory
effects and has been shown to be helpful in other brain disorders such as
Huntington's disease.
The third
study seeks to address the widespread but unproven theory that autism may be
treated successfully by chelation therapy, which seeks to remove heavy metals
from the blood. Chelation is more commonly used to treat lead toxicity, but
currently, many families seek the treatment to try to remove mercury and other
metals from their autistic children's blood. This practice is based on the
belief that many cases of autism were caused by exposure to thimerosol, a
mercury-based preservative previously used in childhood vaccines.
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