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Archive for March, 2009

Montreal Children’s Hospital sued

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

A Quebec couple have launched a $3.5 million lawsuit against Montreal Children’s Hospital for putting their severely disabled infant daughter back on life support without their approval.

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Phébé Mantha, daughter of Marie-Ève Laurendeau and Stéphane Mantha, went without oxygen for more than half an hour during a difficult birth in 2007. The 16-month-old suffers from cerebral palsy and severe developmental delays. She requires daily monitoring by a doctor and is fed by a tube.
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Soon after Phébé’s birth, the doctors at Montreal Children’s Hospital told her parents that she had severe brain damage and would never be able to breathe or feed on her own. With this information in mind, her parents agreed to have her taken off life support. When it was found out that the child could breathe on her own but was only able to accept food through a tube, the hospital kept the cerebral palsy plagued infant on life support.


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The couple has filed the case against the hospital on the account of imposing their morality on the couple by not allowing the baby to die. "It is totally unacceptable. Those people have imposed their view of the treatment to the parents," said Jean-Pierre Ménard, the lawyer representing the couple.

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Judge: tuna warnings are unnecessary

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

American tuna companies don’t have to warn consumer of health dangers in mercury found in tuna, according to a ruling by a state appeals court in San Francisco.

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The Commitments rip The three-judge panel said “there is no dispute that methylmercury is a reproductive toxin that can harm a developing fetus” and cause birth defects, but the court said that there was substantial evidence that at least some of the mercury found in tuna comes from natural sources. These sources can include rainfall depositing atmospheric mercury in the oceans and possibly from vents on the ocean floor.

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The lawsuit was filed by the state against the nation’s three largest tuna companies (Tri-Union Seafoods LLC, maker of Chicken of the Sea; Del Monte Corp, maker of Starkist; and Bumble Bee Seafoods LLC, maker of Bumble Bee tuna) in 2004, seeking warnings for pregnant women and women of childbearing age.  These warnings could have been provided through tuna can labels, grocery store displays, or a public education campaign.

Antibiotics can cause Cerebral Palsy

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

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Confessions of a Pop Performer movie Gettin’ It full movie According to a new study, the use of antibiotics during premature labor may increase an infant’s risk of developing cerebral palsy. 

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A study from 2001, conduced by researchers from Oxford University, concluded that the antibiotics erythomycin and co-amoxiclav could reduce negative infant outcomes in some cases of premature labor (usually when the mother’s water had already broken).  The new study followed up on the children from the original study at the age of seven and examined their rates of cerebral palsy and related problems.

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The researchers found no negative effects among children of women who had been given antibiotics after their waters had broken. But among the rest of the children, use of either antibiotic significantly increased the risk of physical or mental impairment, and more than doubled the risk of cerebral palsy.

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While only 2 percent of premature infants whose mothers had not been given antibiotics developed cerebral palsy, 5 percent of those whose mothers were given both antibiotics did.

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Should Texas store baby blood?

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

For almost seven years, the state of Texas has been indefinitely storing blood from nearly all newborns in Texas without their parents’ consent.

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The blood collected as part of a 44-year-old state-mandated newborn screening program where blood from a baby’s heel so that the state can test for birth defects. The state used to discard the blood after six months and more recently, it was stored for three years before being destroyed. Starting in 2002, the state health department began collecting and keeping the blood indefinitely for current or future medical research.

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These samples can be used by the medical community for things like cancer research, birth defect studies, and calibration of lab equipment, says Doug McBride, spokesman for the Department of State Health Services.

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Parental consent isn’t obtained for the samples, because “requiring permission might be more costly and could require more time of hospital staff. But our real concern would be for the babies with detectable disorders that weren’t detected because their parents declined the screening—babies who had no say in that decision.”

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Five dots of blood are collected on paper for the screening and then stored.