The public hospitals also had higher rates in most categories of serious birth injuries.

A typical big-city hospital might have five or six serious birth injuries a year, he said.

The Firm specializes in complex litigation, particularly lead poisoning and malpractice leading to birth injuries.

"The extra weight increased the risk for complications like hypertension, diabetes, preeclampsia, C-sections, and birth injuries."

Doll directed research in birth injuries, EEG techniques, and adaptive behavior.

All of these 7 patients had had cerebral birth injuries which might have induced a shift of dominance to the right hemisphere.

They taught me a lot about negative attitudes to disability, and hypocrisy A daughter brain damaged by birth injuries and we were made to squirm.

What with the birth injuries and all-Roic shied away from the pejorative mutations-he'd had a rough ride all his life despite his high blood.

Every noon and evening Centaine soaked in their heat, and the manner in which her birth injuries healed was almost miraculous.

As diagnoses of autism have increased throughout the nation, experts and parents have cast about for possible explanations, including genetics, birth injuries and childhood immunizations.

Other worthy elements would strengthen expert witness criteria and statutes of limitations for birth injuries, create hospital Patient Safety Committees and increase insurance oversight.

Most fetal birth injuries resolve without long term harm, but brachial plexus injury may lead to Erb's palsy or Klumpke's paralysis.

Birth injuries encompass any systemic damages incurred during delivery (hypoxic, toxic, biochemical, infection factors, etc.), but "birth trauma" focuses largely on mechanical damage.

Much remains unknown about the disorder's causes, but evidence supports theories that infections, birth injuries, and poor oxygen supply to the brain before, during, and immediately after birth result are common factors.

Birth trauma, on the other hand, encompasses the enduring side effects of physical birth injuries, including the ensuing compensatory and adaptive mechanisms and the development of pathological processes (pathogenesis) after the damage.

Frequent causes include tuberous sclerosis, hereditary metabolic diseases, inflammatory brain disease such as encephalitis, meningitis, and toxoplasmosis; hypoxia-ischemia injury and other birth injuries; and lesions of the frontal lobe.

Ninety-nine percent of infant deaths occur in developing countries, and eighty-six percent of these deaths are due to infections, premature births, complications during delivery, and perinatal asphyxia and birth injuries.

Caput succedaneum, subcutaneous hemorrhages, small subperiostal hemorrhages, hemorrhages along the displacements of cranial bones, intradural bleedings, subcapsular haematomas of liver, are among the more commonly reported birth injuries.

An outspoken atheist, Lowji Daruwalla nevertheless persuaded the Jesuits to establish clinics, both in Bombay and in Poona, for the study and treatment of scoliosis, paralysis due to birth injuries, and poliomyelitis.

In one study that compared deliveries by both midwives and obstetricians, researchers found significantly less fetal distress, meconium staining, postpartum hemorrhage, birth injuries, and less need to use resuscitation in the deliveries, as well as fewer medical interventions, when the delivery was done by a midwife.

In the 2004 presidential election, Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards, a successful trial attorney, was criticized by tort reform advocates for lawsuits that he brought against obstetricians on behalf of children who suffered severe birth injuries; reformers criticized the suits as relying on "junk science", while Edwards denied the allegation.

These factors could include: Maternal infections, such as rubella, cytomegalovirus, or herpes simplex virus, lack of oxygen, maternal diabetes, toxemia during pregnancy, low birth weight, prematurity, birth injuries, toxins including drugs and alcohol consumed by the mother during pregnancy, and complications associated with the Rh factor in the blood/jaundice.