According to the News Chief, a Florida couple is suing Lakeland Regional Medical Center and Central Florida Health Care alleging medical errors caused their daughter’s cerebral palsy. Fiona and Stanley Brown, parents of 6-year-old Fiona Brown, claim the hospital and two registered nurse practitioners, Pamela Barany and Joan Sarratt Bardo, were negligent and caused Destiny’s brain injury. According to the complaint, Central Florida Health Care DBA Lakeland OB-GYN provided Fiona Brown with prenatal care throughout her pregnancy. Brown went for a regular check up on September 28, 2005 and nurses observed signs and symptoms of high blood pressure. A nurse midwife in the office instructed Brown to go to the Lakeland Regional Medical Center for a further observation. At the hospital, the fetal monitor strip indicated a decrease in fetal heart rate. Brown was 38 weeks pregnant at the time when medical personnel informed her that she needed an emergency…
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February 25, 2011Preeclampsia Study Links Disorder to Autoimmune Enzyme
February 24, 2011According to Business Week, a new research study found that women who develop preeclampsia might have an overabundance of a gene that helps regulate the body’s immune system. The study’s findings hope to improve screening and prenatal care of patients at risk and their unborn. The North Carolina State University researchers focused on preeclampsia as an autoimmune disorder, where the mother’s body regards the placenta as an unknown invader. The researchers compared genetic analyses of placenta from women with preeclampsia to women with normal pregnancies. The study found placentas from preeclampsia patients had genes associated with a particular autoimmune pathway, and there was more genes present than in women with normal placentas. A particular enzyme involved in sialic acid modification was upregulated, meaning there was more of it present, which causes disruption in the body’s ability to identify invaders from non-invaders. Such a regulation disruption results in the body attacking…
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Utah School of Medicine Study Examines Breech Birth and Autism
February 23, 2011According to the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, researches and psychiatrists found a link between breech birth and autism spectrum disorders. The study published in 2009 included 132 babies later diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum, as well as 13,200 babies who did not have an autism diagnosis. The researchers linked two factors that seem to relate to the development of autism spectrum disorders: the baby’s position at the time of labor and the mother’s age. A breeched baby has its buttocks or feet at the vaginal opening rather than its head. A breech birth often results in a cesarean section instead of vaginal birth. Dr. Deborah Bilder, the lead researchers in the study, claims that according to the study, a baby in a breech position at the time of labor is twice as likely to develop autism spectrum disorder as a child who…
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