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Article: BRAIN BLEEDING COMMON IN NEWBORNS, UNC STUDY FINDS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 30, 2007
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The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill issued the following press release:
A brain development study in newborns revealed intracranial hemorrhages or bleeding in and around the brain, affects 26 percent of babies born vaginally, according to researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"This was a very unexpected finding," said Dr. John H. Gilmore, a professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and senior study author. "Intracranial hemorrhage has generally been considered unusual in full-term newborns."
Most of these hemorrhages, detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), were fairly small and probably resolved quickly, Gilmore said. Neither the size ...