Several scientists said the symptoms suggested that the women had more serious infections and were more likely to have damaged infants.
Hospital officials used the letter as an occasion to lobby for two malpractice insurance changes proposed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's task force on Medicaid overhaul: a cap on noneconomic damages, like pain and suffering, for malpractice suits, and an indemnity fund for neurologically damaged infants.
Whether or not the provision of adequate supplies of the biochemical precursors of neuronal cell membranes such as choline, uridine and DHA can improve neurological function in brain damaged infants remains unknown and has not been studied in infancy and childhood.
Myths concerning using breastfeeding for pain management include beliefs that the infants will choke, or associate the mother with pain and myths concerning sucrose include interfering with breastfeeding and damaging infants' teeth.
Wasn't it possible, Dowd later argued, that during the feeding she could have damaged her infant?
Intelligence was affected, too: a blood lead level of even 5 µ/dl was enough to damage the infant brain, and with permanent effect.
I dread to think of the potential for damaging this infant, not least treating it as a domestic pet.
If her mother didn't bond with her, she could have attacked and damaged the tiny infant.
The mother of a brain-damaged infant helps a reporter who she feels has been framed for murder.
As someone who made the decision to allow her severely brain-damaged infant daughter to die peacefully rather than be sustained indefinitely by artificial means, I feel compelled to underscore the importance of personal choice.
Guerrilla base is a cruder but still more effective camouflage, converting the collaterally damaged mothers and infants into armed men even before they are hit.The Bosnian war has produced its own crop of nonsense.
