Stillbirth: is it preventable?

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Extrauterine growth restriction: is it preventable?

Longstanding recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Canadian Paediatrics Society, and the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition state that the nutritional management of preterm infants, especially of extremely preterm (EPT) infants, should support growth at a rate that approximates the rate of intrauterine growth. However, extrauterine gr...

EDITORIAL Extrauterine growth restriction : is it preventable ? ,

Longstanding recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics,1,2 the Canadian Paediatrics Society,3 and the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition4,5 state that the nutritional management of preterm infants, especially of extremely preterm (EPT) infants, should support growth at a rate that approximates the rate of intrauterine growth. However, extraute...

Death in epilepsy: is it preventable?

The risk of premature death is higher in people with epilepsy, but many other factors have a potentially bigger role than epilepsy and its treatment. Most people with epilepsy will not die as a direct result of their epilepsy, but as a result of the underlying disorder causing epilepsy and of comorbidity, both somatic and psychiatric. Death in epilepsy is preventable. All patients require accur...

Age-related hearing loss: is it a preventable condition?

Numerous techniques have been tested to attempt to prevent the onset or progression of age-related hearing loss (ARHL): raising the animals in an augmented acoustic environment (used successfully in mouse and rat models), enhancing the antioxidant defenses with exogenous antioxidant treatments (used with mixed results in mouse and rat models), raising the animals with a calorie restricted diet ...